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Centra’s Web Collaboration Software is Key Component of Virginia Tech’s Innovative and Award Winning Programs Delivered at a Distance

Established in 1999, IDDL works collaboratively across the university community to electronically extend Virginia Tech’s campus throughout the commonwealth and beyond, and provide an open learning environment where teaching and learning occur anytime and anyplace. Many courses delivered through IDDL offer a blended program of asynchronous and Centra-powered real-time online learning. “We chose Centra because […]

Virtual university in the making

Education ministers from Commonwealth small states were to meet in Seychelles last week to discuss and test designs for establishing a virtual university to serve small states. Read the Full Article

Virtual Electronics Lab Helps Students “See Concepts”

When he began teaching at the University in 1996, he found it impossible to reproduce his mental images on the standard-issue, two-dimensional blackboards that adorn the walls of most engineering classrooms. “It struck me that the blackboard is a perfectly rotten medium for rendering three-dimensional phenomena over time,” he recalls. “It just can’t be done.”Read […]

Virtual Mass Spectrometry Laboratory Transforms Learning Experience: Product of Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh Collaboration

But that may soon change, thanks to collaboration between Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh on the development of the first virtual mass spectrometry system. Read the Full Article

Slow Start for Long-Awaited Easing of Copyright Restriction

While watching the 1991 American movie Father of the Bride, students in her classroom could easily tell that Steve Martin’s character was jealous of his future son-in-law for stealing his daughter’s heart. While watching the Indian film West Is West, however, students couldn’t as easily read the main character’s expressions as he made his way […]

Online Seminar Examines Pennsylvania’s History And Future

The new seminar, launching today (March 24), offers a reflective experience intended to challenge seminar participants to look critically at the history of the Commonwealth. Guided interactive sessions examine the more recent developments in Pennsylvania and how the past may help to bring about a better future. Participants will interact with William Pencak, professor of […]

Indiana University unveils new Web site with resources for educators, business leaders, students and alumni

Visitors to the site — located at http://www.indiana.edu/ — will find that it provides them with quick and direct access to useful university resources for K-12 school educators, prospective students, alumni, business partners, donors, faculty and staff. Read the Full Article

Win A Masterclass From The Open University Business School

n £2,000 for their company or organisation. The OUBS, Europe’s largest business school, is exhibiting at this year’s HRD (Human Resource Development) Conference Exhibition at Olympia, from 8-10 April 2003. The Masterclass, a one-day event for a group of up to 12 managers worth more than £2,000, can be held either at an organisation’s site, […]

Exclusive Interview with Robert Mendenhall, President, Western Governors University

Distance-Educator.com: Let me first offer our congratulations to you for recent successes of the Western Governors University (WGU) in obtaining accreditation, and announcing a new teacher education initiative. I will ask specific questions regarding these developments as our interview continues. But, first let me ask you a general question about WGU. From its inception, the […]

Understanding Participation in Online Courses: A Case Study of Perceptions of Online Interaction

This study examined instructor and learner perceptions and attitudes toward interaction in online courses on “engaged learning with technology” delivered to K12 inservice teachers. Read the Full Article