Premier Portal for Professionals Since 1995, Covering Technology-Based Education
Read the Full ArticleUniversity Park, Pa. — The University Park campus of Penn State’s Dickinson School of Law has received immediate full approval from the American Bar Association. The accreditation was accompanied by a decision to recognize the law school’s University Park and Carlisle campuses as the nation’s only fully approved unitary two-location law school.
Read the Full ArticleRemember when General Motors introduced Saturn by proclaiming it was “A different kind of company. A different kind of carâ€? Almost 20 years later, an online educator is presenting itself to potential students as “a different kind of university.â€
Registration is now open for “Fundamentals of Fuel Ethanol Production,” a distance-education course from the Grain Elevator & Processing Society (GEAPS), Purdue University and Kansas State University. Read the Full Article
While with any new technology there is a period of nervousness for teachers (more than students) in terms of training, course preparation, and implementation, if the nervous state of use quickly becomes habit, then the use of technology can become rote and meaningless for the student. Read the Full Article
This paper reports research into undergraduates’ adoption of handheld devices as supplementary learning tools. Students enrolled in Engineering and Business in Australia, Ethiopia and Malaysia volunteered to participate in a study of their use of the HP iPAQ from mid-2005 to late-2006.Read the Full Article
A recent article by James Evans in Science (Evans 2008) is being widely discussed in the science and publishing communities. Evans’ in-depth research on citations in over 34 million articles and how online availability affects citing patterns, found that the more issues of a journal that are available online, the fewer numbers of articles in […]
The current model of higher education was several centuries in the making. That leaves colleges adapting to online learning, a viable option for only about a decade, with a monumental game of catch-up.Read the Full Article
The UT TeleCampus (UTTC) launched 10 years ago with a staff of five and a mission to serve as the centralized support system for delivering online education from the 15 University of Texas System institutions.Read the Full Article
Teams up with Plymouth Rock Studios to reinvent the moviesRead the Full Article
HOBOKEN , N.J. – Expectations have never been higher for knowledgeable leaders to leverage healthcare information technology (HIT) to enhance patient care and improve healthcare delivery outcomes. MDs, nurses, administrators, allied health professionals and other decision-makers who have both healthcare knowledge and a strong foundation in information management are in great demand, even in an […]