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Early admissions gather on campus for Clipper

The Clipper Project gives high school students, who have been accepted through the early decision process, the opportunity to take accredited Lehigh classes online during the spring of their senior year in order to evaluate the costs and benefits of web-based university courses. Read the Full Article

Improvements to WebCT allow students access to more courses

The WebCT system supported by A&M is an online, password-protected course template that gives faculty an automatic place for course material, grades, homework, discussion boards and e-mail. Students can use WebCT to communicate with their professors and other students easily online. Read the Full Article

Army brass, medics among OUT graduates

The army officers include the Director General of Prevention of Corruption Bureau (PCB), Major General Anatory Kamazima, the former Commander of Lugalo Military Hospital, Brigadier General Dr. Yohana Balele, and Colonel Charles Jitenga. They will be conferred with Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degrees. Read the Full Article

A&M to unveil distance program

The Texas A&M System Board of Regents will be asked to approve the plan, which is required by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. The regents are scheduled to meet Wednesday through Friday in College Station. Read the Full Article

Mouth of the Merrimack

Friday morning, those students – gathered by class – will have spent 90 minutes in the middle school auditorium learning their fate. Read the Full Article

Technology Source Author Forums for September/October

These forums are offered in collaboration with ULiveandLearn, an e-learning company that uses the HorizonLive platform to allow participants to interact directly with TS authors via their desktops. You may sign up to participate in any of these free webcasts by going to http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=webchats&issue=185 and clicking on the SIGN UP NOW button or by going […]

Virtual Varsity to Offer Degrees

The first degree course in computer studies will be offered through a partnership arrangement between two universities – Australia’s Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and the University of Dar es Salaam. Read the Full Article

Freshman English course goes online

Hochenauer spent several weeks last spring and summer working 20 to 30 hours a week creating the course with his own software on his home computer. He received a Title III grant this semester to improve the course, which has 21 students. Read the Full Article

Teaching at a Distance, Professor Excels

When the associate professor in OSU’s School of Industrial Engineering and Management instructs students on the methodologies that make an exacting science of quality improvement, her expertise therein comes across not only in what, but also how, she teaches Read the Full Article

Educause 2002 Spotlights Campus Pipeline Partner Institutions

Campus Pipeline, Inc. partner institutions take the stage at the Educause 2002 conference, Oct. 1-4, to share software selection and implementation strategies and highlight results from their digital campus implementations. A digital campus is a centralized network that integrates an institution’s technology, information, services, and communities under a single online roof. Join Campus Pipeline and […]