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USC-led group looks at teacher training. Carlile Elementary student teacher Anthony Martinez chatted on-line with a few peers, one at Desert Sage Elementary in Pueblo West, one in the tiny town of Branson near Trinidad and one in New York. Read the Full Article http://www.chieftain.com/tuesday/news/index/article/3
VA Software Corp. announced Cornell University deployed the SourceForge(TM) Enterprise Edition collaborative software development (CSD) platform to accelerate the growth of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) for the National Science Foundation (NSF). The NSDL program is building an online network of learning environments and resources for science, mathematics, engineering and technology education at all […]
Liverpool University vice-chancellor Philip Love said: “China is now one of the world’s most important economies Read the Full Article http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_528809.html?menu=news.technology
Long Beach, CA, Tech Ed Conference — February 26, 2002 – WebCT, the world’s leading provider of integrated e-learning systems for higher education, announced today that it has established the WebCT Learning Innovations Network. The Network is a community of industry-leading technology infrastructure providers, educational content providers and learning applications providers that offer integrated or […]
The university is India’s largest purveyor of distance-learning programs, with an enrollment of 750,000 students. In order to extend educational opportunities to nearly every village in India, the Indira Gandhi National Open University will establish 40 FM radio stations and set up 2,000 television satellite downlinks to its study centers. Read the Full Article http://chronicle.com/free/2002/02/2002022601u.htm
Stanford law professor and author Lawrence Lessig and a small band of collaborators at MIT, Duke, Harvard and Villanova are about to embark on a new endeavor that could help reignite the global high-tech economy. Read Full Articlehttp://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2002/02/11/creatcom.DTL
The rise of the World Wide Web has been closely tracked by that of the cease-and-desist order, a letter typically accusing a Web publisher of copyright or trademark violations and warning that “your conduct may result in legal action against you.” Read the Full Articlehttp://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/25/technology/ebusiness/25CHIL.html
Bent on “breaking down the walls of education” not only locally but overseas as well, the Philippine Women’s University (PWU) on Wednesday sealed a partnership agreement with technology provider Unisys Philippines that will help the school to expand its distance education program to different universities worldwide. Read the Full Storyhttp://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174686.html
Osaka International University (OIU), Nihon Unisys Ltd. and Nihon Unisys Information Systems Ltd. announced that they will start an on-demand distribution trial using animation for e-learning materials. Read the Full Articlehttp://www.nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com/wcs/leaf?CID=onair/asabt/moren/170826
Syllabus interviews Andrew Lippman, founding associate director of MIT’s renowned Media Laboratory, to explore how technology will transform our notions of teaching and learning. Read the Full Story http://www.syllabus.com/syllabusmagazine/article.asp?ID=6073