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Donation to help the consortium of 39 historically black colleges and universities train faculty members and students in information technology. Read the Full Article http://chronicle.com/free/2002/03/2002031401t.htm
LEXINGTON, Mass., Mar 14, 2002 –Centra (NASDAQ: CTRA), the leading provider of business software solutions for eLearning and real-time collaboration, today announced that St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas, has selected Centra to power the university’s interactive virtual classroom learning program. St. Edward’s will use the virtual classroom capabilities of Centra to extend the reach […]
Thomson Enterprise Learning, part of The Thomson Corporation, the world’s largest provider of corporate and professional learning solutions, today announced that it signed an agreement exclusively to market and sell online education courses from UNext’s Cardean University to major corporate clients. With the addition of the Cardean courses to its portfolio, Thomson Enterprise Solutions alone […]
Those who dispute the claim of universal benefits from new information and communications technologies are often called technophobes, but the evidence shows they may be right after all, says a Penn State researcher. The prevailing view that the more technology we have, the better off we are, just isn’t borne out by the evidence, says […]
Colleges offering online courses in Wales need to address people issues as well as the technology if they are to succeed in bringing about a learning revolution, according to e-learning experts. Read the full Article http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0300business/0100news/page.cfm?objectid=11696864&method=full&siteid=50082
After nearly four years of development, students will have a way of finding out what the general opinion of a professor is before signing up for their class. Read the full Article http://www.statenews.com/article.phtml?pk=9256
Through a course offered online and on videotape by Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in Massachusetts, students from as far away as South Korea explore the science fire modeling… Read the full Article http://chronicle.com/free/2002/03/2002031301u.htm <
Thayne Dutson, dean of the Oregon State University College of Agricultural Sciences, has been appointed chairman of the board of directors of the American Distance Education Consortium. ADEC is a global organization that seeks to broaden access to education through use of distance delivery technologies and systems. The non-profit group is based at the University […]
Forget those No.2 pencils, notebook paper and chalkboards. The college classroom in the year 2020 – and the way students get taught – may be far different than today, says a Texas A&M University education professor who specializes in forecasting trends. Dr. John Hoyle, professor of educational administration, says developing technology will change the […]
The scandal was touched off last spring after Professor Lou Bloomfield used a computer program he developed to find duplicated phrases in students’ work. Read the Article http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50288-2002Mar6.html