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Washington, D.C. — In a press briefing held here today, CEOs and a senior executive from leading information and communications technology (ICT) member companies speaking on behalf of the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) urged the U.S. Senate to pass Senator Ted Stevens’ (R- Alaska) video franchise legislation in order to bolster innovation,… Read the Full […]
No economic evidence has been compiled to show the patent system does more good than harm, intellectual property expert asserts Read the Full Story
Every day, millions of students taking online college courses act in much the same way as their bricks-and-mortar counterparts. After logging on, they move from course to course and do things like submit work in virtual drop boxes and view posted grades — all from a program running on a PC.Read the Full Story
About 11.2 million college students, or more than half, received some form of financial aid from outside their families to help pay for their education, according to tabulations released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.Read the Full Story
Al Gore has yet to live down reports that he claimed to have invented the Internet. Now Blackboard is facing criticism from those who say the giant of the course management industry claims to have invented chat rooms. (If you are wondering, Blackboard says it never made such a claim.)Read the Full Story
Meeting his e-tutor face to face for the first time when he visited India during summer holidays was the height of excitement for 10-year-old Farhan. He goes to school in New York and was being taught online by this Bangalore-based math teacher for the past 18 months.Read the Full Story
At a time when consideration of the Trademark Dilution Revision Act has stalled in Congress because of concerns about undue impact on free speech, the recent news that Apple is trying to gain monopoly control over the use of the word “pod†could not have come at a more opportune time. This new Apple campaign […]
Burlington, VT—Congressman Bernie Sanders yesterday held a press conference to discuss the soaring costs of college education, including the impact of recent cuts to student aid enacted by the Republican leadership and his plan to make college education more affordable. University of Vermont’s Dean of Admissions Don Honeman and Bruce Post, director of federal affairs […]
Secretary Spellings today made the following statement on the Commission on the Future of Higher Education’s vote to approve its final report:Read the Full Story
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 — A federal commission approved a final report on Thursday that urges a broad shake-up of American higher education. It calls for public universities to measure learning with standardized tests, federal monitoring of college quality and sweeping changes in financial aid.Read the Full Story
