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The new plan, expected to be released at the end of September, will continue the shift from counting the number of computers in each classroom to improving student achievement with technology, Patrick said. Read the Full Story
The expansion on the Phoenix Biomedical Campus of the Arizona University System will eventually double the size of the medical school student body, said Keith Joiner, dean of the College of Medicine. Read the Full Story
Attorney General Amos Wako rejected the proposed The Universities (Coordination of Post Secondary School Institutions for University Education) Rules, 2004 – also meant to streamline distance learning – on the grounds the Commission for Higher Education (CHE) was overstepping its mandate.Read the Full Story
In the past, the emergence of new technologies— the photocopying machine and videocassette recorder, for example—has threatened to tilt the scales of the copyright regime by loosening the control that copyright owners enjoy over subsequent uses of their works.Such a development could reduce the revenues that creators of copyrighted material obtain from their efforts and […]
In the letter, Robert A. Berman, Sr. VP of Business Development and General Counsel for Acacia, claims that his company owns five U.S. Patents (Patents Nos. 5,132,992; 5,235,275; 5,550,863; 6,002,720; 6,144,702) and 17 International Patents covering the transmission and receipt of audio/video content via the Internet.Read the Full Story
“For any nation the level and quality of education is one of the most significant parameters for development,” he said delivering the Vikram Sarabhai memorial lecture here. Read the Full Story
The standard will make it easier to convert traditional textbooks into formats such as Braille or text-to-speech. Read the Full Story
The message: Pay up, or risk getting sued. In spite of a legal setback in July, Acacia is escalating claims that schools’ use of streaming video for purposes such as distance learning and video lectures violates the company’s patents. Read the Full Story
RADIO, computers, television audio visual cassette, telephone among other Information and Communication Technology (ICT) are no longer going to be items that are used to show the sophistication of an office that is moving with the trend of technical service delivery for optimum output and customer satisfaction, but will henceforth be aggressively deployed to the […]
The rules changes were approved unanimously at an Aug. 4 hearing, though Commissioner Kevin Martin dissented in part with the agency’s decisions. Read the Full Story