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Encoding the policy rules in software would have cost the university $230,000 in initial programming expenses and another $60,000 a year in maintenance costs, says Bob Eno, president of the Bloomington Faculty Council. Read the Full Article
The English department is offering a course this spring that students only will need to attend four times. Read the Full Article
A new position created in Academic Computing will give faculty members greater resources for integrating geographic information systems (GIS) into their teaching and research. Read the Full Article
A study of electronic discussion groups found that initial parameters affected student participation and perceived value. Read the Full Article
Our community can take pride in a small group of Cornell University researchers who are playing a key role in a project that could revolutionize how teachers and students access and utilize information in the sciences and mathematics. Read the Full Article
Cox is a full professor in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s School of Art and Design, holds a joint appointment with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, was named Indiana University’s first Distinguished Visiting Technologist, and is a member of the Internet2 Applications Strategy Council. Read the Full Article
Cal Poly Continuing Education’s Osher Learning Community, part of an international lifelong learning movement, explained Cal Poly Continuing Education Dean Dennis “Skip” Parks. It will offer university-level intellectual opportunities to the Central Coast’s 50-and-older population, he said. Members of the Osher Learning Community with special expertise and experience, retired university faculty from Cal Poly and […]
Connecting the university’s “TELETECHNET” and the Navy’s “USN-USMC VTT” distance learning networks with two-way audio and video broadcast via satellite, Old Dominion President Roseann Runte will confer degrees upon 10 Navy officers present in the university’s television studio and 14 other officers located from San Diego and Kings Bay, Ga., to Bangor, Wash., Newport, R.I., […]
The Pakistan market is clearly huge; however, people are disillusioned by the insufficiency of existing IT courses in finding them suitable jobs, or in enabling them to continue higher studies abroad. Read the Full Article
The Reusable Educational Software Library (RESL) database gives access to shared case studies, reports, software and other resources. The site, which can be accessed at http://www.resl.ac.uk, is powered by the Open University’s Knowledge Network, a web-based system for exploring, sharing and building knowledge and experience of teaching and learning. The university’s RESL team hopes that […]