De Anza offers 24-hour online tutoring
De Anza College has partnered with SMARTHINKING, a source for online tutoring and academic support, to offer free online tutoring services to its students.
Archive for the ‘Higher Education’ Category
Board of Regents to act on eliminating division Friday
UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman recommended eliminating the division as part of $7.5 million in budget cuts to the main campus of the university. Read the Full Article
Odessa College hosts ESL telecast
The telecast, “Integrating Technology into Your ESOL Program,” was produced through STARLINK, a teleconference network funded partially by the state, to public school and college educators and literacy volunteers nationwide, said OC Dean of Distance Education Robert Munoz. Read the Full Article
Learning-Centered Evaluation of Computer-Facilitated Learning Projects in Higher Education
The project sought to address widely-acknowledged shortcomings in the evaluation of Computer-facilitated Learning projects (CFL), identified in a CUTSD report by Alexander & McKenzie, in 1998. It involved staff development in evaluation of CFL projects, proceeding from the premise that academics in most discipline areas generally have neither the skills nor expertise to carry out […]
San Diego State University Launches Web Pages for Spanish-Speaking Parents
San Diego State University announced today that it is the first university in California to make important admissions guidelines and requirements available in Spanish on its Web site. Latino advocates and SDSU say the move bridges an information gap between Spanish-speaking Latino parents and the higher education community and will help more high-achieving Latino children […]
Visualize better math and science
The program, Rural Educators using Visualization to Inspire Teacher Advancement and Learning to Improve Science and Mathematics Education, or REVITALISE, is funded in part by the National Science Foundation. Read the Full Article
Are Personal Digital Assistants the Next Must-Have Tool?
Last year, the University of South Dakota started requiring its freshmen to bring Palm hand-held computers to class, along with their notebooks and texts. Read the Full Article
Watch or Listen to EDUCAUSE 2002 Sessions
EDUCAUSE 2002: Juggling Opportunities in Collaborative Environments Atlanta, Georgia Georgia World Congress Center October 1-4
Online learning gains ground
Signing into a virtual classroom created by the University of Phoenix and nestling plugs into her ears, Bartku was oblivious to the droning engines while she worked uninterrupted for 14 hours as the plane crossed the Pacific. Read the Full Article
Carnegie Mellon to Showcase Innovative New Technology for Live Internet Broadcasts
Event Details and Agenda For instructions to view the symposium and more information on ESM, see: www.cs.cmu.edu/~ESM-streaming. ESM enables live streaming over the Internet through a unique, distributed coordination mechanism that permits viewers’ Internet-connected computers, referred to here as end systems, to self-organize into a data distribution tree structure. The tree structure continuously adapts to […]