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Illinois Wesleyan University Proclaims Campus Pipeline Group Portal a Success

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Former UM students may lose degrees

Ole Miss is requesting that the board take back the degrees because the students received academic credit and grades for work they did not do in a distance-learning course. Read the Full Article

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AllLearn.org proves rare online success

AllLearn.org, Yale’s online learning venture in collaboration with Oxford and Stanford, is one of the few “dot-com university” projects that has grown and flourished. Read the Full Article

U of Washington creates online portfolios for students

Freshmen who just entered the University of Washington are the first students to use a new system designed to compile a record of their work at the university, beyond the usual grades and letters of recommendation. The Catalyst Portfolio – an electronic archive of work produced by students – went live this month and is […]

Understanding knowledge management and information management: the need for an empirical perspective

Is Knowledge Management (KM) an emerging discipline or just a new label for Information Management (IM)? To provide some answers to this question, the article summarizes empirical evidence of how KM is practiced in several types of organizations demonstrating the variety of organizational approaches that are used and the processes that are involved. Read the […]

Campus resources difficult to find for non-traditional students

“It’s more difficult to find help now,” said Penny Rice, former coordinator of OCASS. “It’s a disadvantage to not have one person or a group to contact.” Read the Full Article

Online colleges complain about traditional institutions’ tough credit-transfer policies

But those students often get a rude surprise if they try to transfer to a traditional college: Its course credits don’t count toward anything at many traditional institutions. Read the Full Article

Higher Education, Lower Prices!

When Brian Frye decided last winter to head for law school, he knew he’d need a big scholarship to make ends meet. He had an excellent undergraduate record and unusual work experience, but he wasn’t sure how interested schools would be. Read the Full Article

Measuring Social Capital in a Networked Housing Estate

This paper describes the construction of ‘Reach for the Clouds’, an inventive scheme to build a resident-maintained ‘networked community’ in Atherton Gardens, an ethnically-diverse, low-income, high rise public housing estate in Melbourne, Australia. The project was developed by the InfoXchange, a not-for-profit Internet service provider with a ‘social entrepreneurial’ orientation. It involves a consortium of […]