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Although the weak economy has forced schools across the nation to make cutbacks, careful budgeting and more than a decade of record fund raising has left USC in a strong position to climb the ranks, said Mike Diamond, vice president and executive vice provost. Read the Full Article
The study used a U.S.-based plagiarism-detection service called Turnitin.com to analyze 1,925 essays, each provided by a different student at the six institutions. The essays, which were evaluated this year, covered 20 different subjects. Read the Full Article
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library (NSDL) program2 recently made its third set of awards for projects in three basic tracks: Read the Full Article
The design of any piece of technology intended for human use—whether for entertainment, work, or education— is ideally iterative and user-centered. Designers can not anticipate all the needs of users, but most begin with a prototype and revise it based on user feedback. This is even more true of online learning communities, where designers must […]
The 23-page “Performance Assessment in Teacher Education: The Iowa ePortfolio Model” has been distributed to state departments of education, colleges of education, school administrators, legislators, policymakers and media. Read the Full Article
Examines critically the origins and basis of ‘knowledge management’, its components and its development as a field of consultancy practice. Problems in the distinction between ‘knowledge’ and ‘information’ are explored, as well as Polanyi’s concept of ‘tacit knowing’. The concept is examined in the journal literature, the Web sites of consultancy companies, and in the […]
The online format is meant to help rural and inner-city students who go to high schools that do not provide advanced-placement courses. Read the Full Article
LONG BEACH, Ca. – November 19, 2002 – Datatel, Inc., the premier provider of enterprise information management solutions for higher education, today announced the availability of the first all-inclusive Continuing Education Solution for colleges and universities. The cost-effective services and software package enables Clients to customize their Colleague based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems to […]
Headed by the University of Wisconsin System and the Wisconsin Technical College System, the Academic Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Co-Laboratory serves as the focal point for the nation’s colleges and universities in promoting high-quality content for distributed learning that can be shared and used across systems. Read the Full Article
When the university began offering distance education five years ago, administrators and faculty members wanted to make sure they could recreate the evangelical institution’s campus environment online. Read the Full Article