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San Diego, CA – January 2002. In the next few weeks governors throughout the country will review the state of the affairs for their constituencies (State of the States from the National Governors Association). Preliminary indications point to most governors announcing reduced budget allocations for higher education, or at least asking for fiscal belt-tightening. A […]
The Southern Regional Education Board through its three technology-related initiatives: the Electronic Campus, the Distance Learning Policy Laboratory and the Educational Technology Cooperative has become the first multistate academic partner of the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) initiative. The Electronic Campus is the nation’s most successful marketplace of distance learning courses. Students worldwide have access to […]
Teaching and learning – driven by information technology, a strong trend toward active and collaborative learning, and other factors – are rapidly changing at Penn State and some other universities. Students today learn faster, have many different learning styles, and expect more from the institutions they attend. “Today, and even more tomorrow, students will have […]
George Mason’s virtual campus tour has been awarded the CampusTours.com 4-Star Tour Award for January 2002. The exemplary online expedition will be featured all month on the company’s web site.
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The Open University will play host to Margaret Hodge, Minister of State for Lifelong Learning and Higher Education, briefing her on the latest OU initiatives to broaden the range of people taking up university study. The Minister will hear how the university continues to encourage people of all backgrounds to study – reflecting the Government’s […]
In his 1996 State of the University Address, Penn State’s President Graham Spanier first outlined his ambitious goals for a new, “virtual” Penn State campus – the World Campus. “I believe the World Campus will change the shape of the land-grant university in the 21st century,” said Spanier. “We are creating a university without walls […]
A software program designed by Georgia Tech professors to detect cheating in students’ computer programming homework turned up 186 possible violators, school officials said.
In the world of public policy, American University and Cleveland State University are separated by more than a few hundred miles: Public-policy students at American usually train for careers in the federal government, while most of their Cleveland State peers plan to work on local or state levels. Using videoconferencing technology, a husband-and-wife team aims […]
Military officers seeking to improve their chances for promotion both within the armed services and in the civilian world can now transfer credits from a program at the United States Naval War College to a new online master’s-degree program offered by the University of Maryland University College.