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Microsoft Partners in Learning works with education leaders and policymakers around the globe, equipping them to assess and overcome challenges.Read the Full Article
Within the context of the telecommunications policy environment in the United States during the 1990s, the Department of Commerce’s Falling through the Net reports can be read as a seven-year ideological project to legitimize U.S. government’s deregulatory policies. This paper analyzes “digital divide†as rhetorical trope in an neoliberal ideology, which placed responsibility for social […]
Student authentication has become a major necessity for distance education providers as recent legislation requires institutions and programs to offer distance education and have policies to ensure the student who registers is the same student who participates in and completes the program and receives the academic credit.Read the Full Article
Stanford has joined with the University of Michigan and the University of California in supporting a proposed legal settlement that could allow their libraries to digitize millions of books through the Google Book Search project.Read the Full Article
WASHINGTON (AP) _ The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday proposed opening up unused portions of the television airwaves known as “white spaces” to deliver wireless broadband service.Read the Full Article
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has added five new multilingual courses to the distance learning program offered by its Worldwide Academy. The new courses will cover Arbitration and Mediation Procedure, Patents, Patent Information Search, Basics of Patent Drafting, and Trademarks. Over 7,000 students are currently participating in the established range of distance learning courses […]
During this 75-minute webcast, industry experts will clarify the language in Part H of Title IV: Accrediting Agency Recognition, offer insight on how and when this new requirement may be translated into practice, and provide a brief look into various different approaches to address student authentication. The objective of this webcast is to help you […]
The higher-education law signed by President Bush last month (See “Congress: Schools must clamp down on file sharing”) demands that colleges authenticate test takers in online courses through the use of sophisticated identification technology or with exam proctors.Read the Full Article
For schools that rely on E-rate funding for telecommunications and Internet access, changes are afoot that could impact planning as soon as funding year 2009. The Federal Communications Commission is seeking comments on potential changes to the E-rate Eligible Services List that in some cases would narrow the list of eligible technologies and in some […]
The exponential growth of distance learning provision in the past forty years poses pertinent and critical ethical issues. Students participating in distance education via an online course are required to recognize and resolve various ethical issues, some of which focus on the instructor’s actions. The university, too, as it supports students and instructors, is ethically […]
