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It can be frustrating to get, and keep, an Internet connection going. When someone is trying to keep you offline, however, it can be even more frustrating. This was the case this semester for at least six Chico State University students whose computers were blocked from accessing the Internet after the university was notified they […]
Electronic delivery method meant to eliminate costs, provide better service
What was once a game room full of battered and worn billiard and ping-pong tables has now transformed into a futuristic, hip café for UM students to spend their time and cash in.
Dozens of emergency-room physicians from across the country are meeting in cyberspace in a bioterrorism-intervention course offered free by the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and the Detroit Medical Center.
Information literacy a goal of restructuring composition course
As Nigeria prepares to run its Open University programme next year, University of South Africa (UNISA) in conjunction with Management Development Centre International last week stepped in the country with the launching of its On-line Distance Learning Graduate, Masters and Doctorate programmes.
Divinity School students in Ellen Aitken’s “Gospel of Mark” class studied a passage on divorce last week. While they searched themselves – and the pertinent literature – for the significance of the passage’s teachings, they also searched the Internet for details of their assignment.
Whenever a student leaves a workstation in one of Brigham Young University’s campus computer labs, an innocuous screen saver appears, giving the machine the illusion of idleness. In fact, the computer’s processors rev up, transforming it into a component of a virtual supercomputer that is struggling to solve a problem so complex that it has […]
The Committee on Research presented the Faculty Senate last week with what it hopes will be the outline for a debate over the next few months on Stanford’s policies toward distance learning. The debate may lead to adoption of an official policy on the issue sometime next year.