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ON Oct. 2, 2003, board members at the University of Virginia filed into the Upper East Oval Room of the Rotunda, the centerpiece of Thomas Jefferson’s campus design, for one of their regular meetings. As usual, they were joined by the university’s top administrators. Just before the meeting began, a member of U.Va.’s public affairs […]
You’ve heard the reasons why professors don’t trust RateMyProfessors.com, the Web site to which students flock. Students who don’t do the work have equal say with those who do. The best way to get good ratings is to be relatively easy on grades, good looking or both, and so forth.Read the Full Article
This research describes the lessons learned during initial implementation of e-folios at four teacher education programsRead the Full Article
Studies find employers, however, favor traditional degrees, but tide may be turningRead the Full Article
Continuing their campaign to draw attention to the cost of textbooks, the Student Public Interest Research Groups celebrated Tuesday what they’re calling a major milestone — reaching 1,000 professors who’ve signed a statement supporting the use of free, online and open source textbooks.Read the Full Article
For all the talk of textbooks with their hefty price tags, professors have always included other sources in their teaching material, whether in the form of journal articles, newspaper clippings, individual chapters or other media.Read the Full Article
Aubrey White did not want to drive 40 miles to attend Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, Nev.So he picked only online classes for his first term in fall 2005. In five semesters, he never took a traditional, face-to-face class while obtaining an associate degree in business.Read the Full Article
PRINCETON, N.J. — SES AMERICOM (www.ses-americom.com), an SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg stock exchange: SESG), today announced that the State University of New York (SUNY) has renewed its multi-year contract using SES AMERICOM’s AMC-5 satellite for its SUNYSAT network, which is used to deliver the University’s popular New York Network and distance learning applications […]
Instead of sifting through existing texts to find case studies suitable for his course, Matt Cookson decided to go straight to the source. In his Introduction to Public Relations class, which he teaches as an adjunct at the University of New Hampshire at Manchester, he uses content pulled directly from online archives of The New […]
Community colleges are increasingly finding that many of the issues they deal with on a day-to-day basis — retention and remedial education, to name two — are just as present among the students they don’t see as the ones who show up for class on campus.Read the Full Article