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The California Student Public Interest Research Group’s (CALPIRG) study, “Rip-off 101,” showed the average California college student paid $898 for books in 2003-04. This is up from the $642 per year students paid for books seven years ago, according to a different CALPIRG study. Read the Full Story
Years from now, the McKinney native hopes, his view will include more wildlife. But for now, the Navy lieutenant surveys the massive flight deck of the USS Harry S. Truman during his workday, then heads for the ship’s computer connections to log into his ecology class at Texas A&M University. Read the Full Story
The presentations were streamed live on the Internet, and participants could interact with the presenters via Internet chat. Read more about what the students–and Howard–learned through the process. Read the Full Story
After developing 29 online projects at CLU, we conducted post-project evaluations and interviews to determine faculty impressions of the projects’ effects on teaching and learning. Faculty reported that the implementation of their projects prompted them to envision new and more effective ways to teach and that they observed improved student learning. The post-project evaluations also […]
Stephen Bruder, the author of “An Introduction to Robotic Manipulators — An Online Course in Robotics,” developed the e-textbook during a recent sabbatical he took away from the research university while working at Sandia National Laboratories. Read the Full Story
But a new Web site may relieve students’ anxiety: it’s designed to gauge students’ chances of being admitted to 80 of the best colleges and universities in the US, including Syracuse University. Read the Full Story
Professor Bob Goldberg teaches the Honors Collegium course “Genetic Engineering in Medicine, Agriculture and Law” every Tuesday and Thursday at UCLA and Kyoto, Japan simultaneously. Read the Full Story
Online education is becoming increasingly popular for both students and professors as the Internet creates new learning possibilities outside the traditional classroom. Read the Full Story
As shown by research by the Policy Center on the First Year of College at Brevard College (NC) and others, the first year of college is the most critical to a college student’s success and to degree completion. Read the Full Story
CAHO was created by Columbia Digital Knowledge Ventures (DKV), the campus organization known for creatively publishing online the work of Columbia faculty and researchers. CAHO itself combines e-seminars, taught by distinguished Columbia faculty members Casey Blake, Alan Brinkley, Eric Foner and Kenneth Jackson, with original historic documents, thought-provoking questions, classroom simulations recreating historic periods, interactive […]