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Online Bioterrorism Continuing Medical Education: Development and Preliminary Testing

Objective: Education to achieve awareness and competency in responding to incidents of bioterrorism is important for health care professionals, especially emergency physicians and nurses, who are likely first points of medical contact. Read the Full Story

Student surfers fail the grade

Eighty-one Shanghai University students were persuaded to quit school in the middle of last month after failing more than the allowed number of courses in a given time. Read the Full Story

Collaborators in Communication: Publishers, Scholars, and Information Technologists

One area in which IT has the potential to make significant contributions is the field of scholarly publishing, as publishers seek to serve the needs of a growing population of Internet users who want access to research and educational materials in digital form.Read the Full Story

Profs, TAs struggle to combat plagiarism

Instructors in the computer science department frequently scan students’ assignments with the software program Measure of Software Similarity (MOSS). Read the Full Story

Students evaluate their instructors online

Mohr is known for his evaluation day performance, when he humorously “tries his best” not to influence the outcome of evaluations by showing students a photo of his son and bribing them with free pencils.Read the Full Story

Colleges turn to Internet to stop online cheating

Last semester, Eastern Kentucky University Professor Gene Kleppinger had five students who copied information off the Internet and pasted it into their papers without citation.Read the Full Story

FOX’s Good Day Atlanta Airs Story on Strayer University Online

During the interview Dove, who is employed by a large insurance company in Atlanta, discussed the value of a college degree, why she enrolled in an online education program, and how she selected Strayer University Online.Read the Full Story

New Jersey Institute of Technology Breaks E-Learning Barriers with WebCT Campus Edition

The New Jersey Institute of Technology, an e-learning pioneer and the confirmed originator of the “virtual classroom” concept, is using the WebCT Campus Edition(TM) course management system to expand its already broad range of innovative e-learning offerings. Read the Full Story

Western Governors University Newsletter, January 2005

WGU Experiences Year of Impressive GrowthRead the Newsletter

A critical discourse in multimedia design: a pedagogical perspective to creating engaging online courseware

In this article we explore how the multimedia instructional strategies and processes can further be enhanced by sagaciously incorporating the principles of cognitive psychology in the design phases. Human cognitive architecture involves both a limited working memory with visual and auditory channels and a permanent long-term memory for storing multiple schemas. Understanding and tapping the […]