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In addition to senior MIT faculty and policy makers from USAID, the World Bank, corporations and foundations, the following countries will be represented: Armenia, Canada, France, Hong Kong, Japan, India, Ireland, Iran, Israel, Kenya, Mexico, Niger, Pakistan, Russia, Syria and United Arab Emirates. Richard Larson, professor of electrical engineering at MIT and co-editor of Internet […]
Portfolios have been used in teacher education in different formats, in a variety of ways and for different purposes. Portfolios can be used as evaluation tools, to illustrate good teaching, to demonstrate progress, to integrate collection of work, to share work, and to support reflection and professional growth. Read the Full Article
The newly christened “OSU Extended Campus” program is refitting itself in order to integrate itself into the OSU community. Read the Full Article
Effective March 31 this year, the largest online learning venture will end. Read the Full Article
The announcement came this week in San Antonio at the SACS annual meeting. Embry-Riddle is one of the most complex and geographically distributed universities in the southern association, having residential campuses in Daytona Beach, Fla., and Prescott, Ariz., with an Extended Campus composed of more than 150 teaching centers in the United States and Europe. […]
Can anyone learn anywhere at anytime or are there required pre-requisite skills or strategies to achieve such learning? Read the Full Article
With the development of the Internet and the World Wide Web, instructors and students alike have begun to see the implementation of computer technology in many aspects of education—from Web discussion boards that supplement in-class lectures to courses that are fully delivered through online methods. Online course delivery and conferencing systems have indeed shown us […]
For the past two years the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries and Hewlett-Packard Labs have been collaborating on the development of an open source system called DSpace™ that functions as a repository for the digital research and educational material produced by members of a research university or organization. Read the Full Article
This article describes and evaluates the Northern Arizona University (NAU) pilot program for delivering training and continuing education programs to students at homes and hospitality establishments using a combination of satellite and Internet technologies. Read the Full Article
As more courses in higher education move to an online format, a major concern that has arisen is the lack of personal interaction between the professor and student. The literature provides evidence that often online courses are configured and delivered in a style more often associated with independent study or correspondence work.While this format may […]