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Cognitive and Logical Rationales for e-Learning Objects

e-Learning artefacts are probably compared most appropriately with information artefacts as known by the cognitive dimensions framework (cf. Green, 1996; Green & Petre, 1996) which describes the “system under investigation” as “something that has been built for the processing, storage and communication of information. Every information artefact provides one or more notations in which the […]

California Distance Learning Health Network Achieves State-Wide Reach

Installation and testing of Berkeley’s satellite dish, which equips them with three receivers including one to downlink digital broadcasts, has just been completed.Read the Full Story

Choosing people: the role of social capital in information seeking behaviour

An explanation for the use of people as information sources is that they are easier to approach than more formal sources and therefore are a least effort option. However there have been few studies that have investigated who the people chosen as information sources are and what their relationship to the information seeker is.Read the […]

Gwinnett Tech leads state in Web students

Last fall, the college had 1,665 students enrolled in 133 online courses, according to the college. DeKalb Technical College had the second-highest enrollment in the state with 1,465 students.Read the Full Story

USC Distance Learning Goes International

Thursday, January 06, 2005 — An educational revolution has spread worldwide. The University of Southern California’s innovative Distance Education Network (DEN) and ChevronTexaco Corp. announced an agreement today to offer DEN’s “smart oilfield technologies” program to ChevronTexaco engineers around the world.Read the Full Story

Students Embrace Online Learning

The Quality and Extent of Online Education in the United States, 2003 and 2004,” by the Sloan Center for Online Education, more than 1.9 million students were studying online in the fall of 2003, a 19.8 percent increase over fall 2002. The study was based on a survey of 1,100 U.S. colleges and universities. The […]

Authentication >> The Power of Who

In the ever-changing environment of academic technology, it’s one thing to secure your enterprise network, but entirely another to provision it to control access based on a user’s identity. Read the Full Story

Western Governors U. improves its grade

The virtual university, chartered in 1996 by the Western Governors Association as a private, non-profit institution, now offers 24 separate degrees in education, business administration and information technology on the undergraduate and graduate level.Read the Full Story

Harvard, Drexel, Swarthmore, and MIT Choose BigBad

– Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government – Executive Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts (rebranding and print collateral design)– Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (design and development of interactive campus map – Swarthmore College,Swarthmore, Pennsylvania (content management system consulting services)– MIT School of Engineering – Professional Education Programs, Cambridge, Massachusetts (website strategy, design, and development) “We continue to […]

Professor’s anatomy Web quiz garners quarter-million-plus hits

In December, the site logged 277,593 hits, a feat that has James A. Strauss, assistant professor of anatomy and physiology at University Park, pleased and amazed. Read the Full Story