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Pulling sense out of today’s informational chaos: LiveJournal as a site of knowledge creation and sharing

With these changes in mind, I will examine the blogging service LiveJournal as a new and more applicable way of managing information and creating knowledge in today’s society.Read the Full Story

KU [University of Kansas] Offers New Environmental Literature Course Through Distance Education

Lawrence, Kansas – ENGL 203 Topics in Reading and Writing: Environmental Literature provides a survey of American environmental thought from the 19th century to the present. Read the Full Story

E-Learning: The Hype and the Reality

The paper provides a summary of some of the current research areas under investigation and provides a list of characteristics of the area. The paper goes on to consider the professional identities of researchers in the area and the tensions which have resulted in terms of aligning with this new emergent group of professionals within […]

New Web service to assist students with majors, careers

Quest, a Web-based service offered through the Career Center, assists students with identifying Ball State majors and careers that relate to their interests. The program then provides information on what types of careers are available after graduating with a particular major or minor.Read the Full Story

Gates Offers $30M for ‘Early Colleges’

A sophisticated student information system will help administrators track the progress of the program, the Seattle-based foundation said. Read the Full Story

A Typology of Virtual Communities: A Multi-Disciplinary Foundation for Future Research

In this paper, a virtual community is defined as an aggregation of individuals or business partners who interact around a shared interest, where the interaction is at least partially supported and/or mediated by technology and guided by some protocols or norms.Read the Full Story

Supporting flexible collaborative distance learning in the CURE platform

An analysis of these scenarios showed a great variance between them and a need to support run-time tailoring of the respective learning environments.Read the Full Story

Keynotes >> Tackling the Big Questions

With a perspective gained only by working in the president’s office at one of the largest educational organizations in the world, UC Associate VP for Resources and Communications Kristine Hafner gave Syllabus2004 attendees the “big picture” about the role of IT in higher education. Read the Full Story

ECU [Eastern Carolina University] leads state in distance education

People who are interested in becoming students but are unable to commit to campus classes are offered over 40 degree and certificate programs that can be obtained via the Internet.Read the Full Story

OC [Odessa College] to partner in distance education project

Odessa College and the College of the Southwest announced Wednesday a plan for digitally televised distance education.Read the Full Story