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Copyright protection and the new stakeholders in online distance education: The Play’s the Thing

This paper analyses the university as an Internet intermediary in the current climate of online distance education, classifies the stakeholders associated with the university in Web course management, and explores the need for an “Instructional Design Copyright Law”. The situation is likened to a theatrical production, with front-of-house preparations, backstage operations, and tragic characters.Read the […]

Patent fight a boon to open LMS software

As learning management system (LMS) provider Blackboard Inc. continues its protracted legal battle with rival Desire2Learn, educators say the ongoing dispute over patent infringement could make the growing list of open-source LMS competitors more attractive to school leaders.Read the Full Article

First It Was Song Downloads. Now It’s Organic Chemistry.

Between used books and pirated copies offered for illegal download, the textbook industry has begun to transition to other models of distribution and sales.Read the Full Article

Court affirms online content law unconstitutional

WASHINGTON (AP) _ A federal appeals court Tuesday agreed with a lower court ruling that struck down as unconstitutional a 1998 law intended to protect children from sexual material and other objectionable content on the Internet.Read the Full Article

Back to the Future: How Transportation Deregulatory Policies Foreshadow Evolution of Communications Policies

The legal regulatory regimes for communication technologies evolve with technological, economic, and social change. This paper asserts that, in the United States, the evolution of the legal regulatory regimes for the communications sector is following a trajectory breathtakingly similar to that already traversed by the transportation sector. As both sectors provide infrastructures essential to the […]

High-Stakes Race to Unlock a Wider Web

Critics Say New Technology May Hinder TV SignalsRead the Full Article

Wyoming woman to lead distance learning in S.D.

PIERRE – Cathy Anderson, a Wyoming college administrator, will coordinate distance-learning programs for public universities in South Dakota. Read the Full Article

From Assessment to Accreditation

pparently, everyone believes in assessment. Taxpayers, lawmakers and yes, educators: Just ask a university administrator for his or her assessment strategy and you’ll likely receive a mouthful about institutional goals and outcomes measures and, of course, standards.Read the Full Article

While innovations in virtual learning accelerate growth, regulatory issues must be addressed

New CEEP policy brief addresses issues surrounding “cyber schools” in Indiana and the nationRead the Full Article

Interview with Gregory F. Knapp Executive Director U.S. Joint Forces Command’s Joint Warfighting Center and Joint Training Directorate (J7)

Gregory F. Knapp is the Executive Director, U.S. Joint Forces Command’s Joint Warfighting Center and Joint Training Directorate (J7), Suffolk, Va. As a member of the Senior Executive Service his responsibilities include overall program direction and support to the Joint Training Enterprise. Knapp has over 27 years of government and civilian experience as an innovator […]

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