Erudite Corporation, UM-Dearborn Expand E-Learning Agreement
Erudite Corporation and the University of Michigan-Dearborn (UM-Dearborn) School of Management have expanded their original agreement to coproduce e-learning management training courses…
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Ohio State U. teaching assistants offer help online
Ever wanted a tutor who is available to help with classes 24 hours a day? If so, here is a dream come true.
Teaching with Technology: English Department Laptop Pilot Program
The Library and U.Va.’s Information Technology and Communications group (ITC), under the leadership of Karen Marshall of the Library and Nancy Hopkins of ITC, began a pilot program this summer that put new, state-of-the-art, fully loaded laptops into the hands of 14 English department faculty members.
UMass Lowell Trains Faculty Online in Distance Learning; Grant from Sloan Foundation Makes Training Possible
The University of Massachusetts Lowell Division of Continuing Studies and Corporate Education (CSCE) has trained dozens of faculty how to migrate courses online since they started offering distance learning courses over five years ago. Dean Jacqueline Moloney and her staff are taking the training a step further by putting their program, “Course Redesign for the […]
MIT Begins Effort to Create Public Web Pages for More Than 2,000 Courses
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has begun the pilot phase of its closely watched plan to create detailed Web pages for nearly all of its courses and develop courseware tools that other institutions could use free.
Groups plan Internet service for minority universities
Two non-profit organizations said they are developing a joint project to offer satellite-based Internet service for educational purposes to minority universities in rural and isolated areas. The Internet Satellite Project will be developed by The Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center of Ohio (ITEC-Ohio) and the American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC). These organizations are currently working on […]
Wired Classrooms Aren’t Enough
We are poised to see change on the University’s Central Grounds of a sort we have not seen in more than a century. In August 2001, a U.Va. Board of Visitors committee announced it would invest in the principal buildings occupied by the College of Arts & Sciences on the South Lawn.
ITEC-Ohio, ADEC to Test New Satellite Technologies for Use in Distance Education to Remote, Underserved Areas
The Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center of Ohio (ITEC-Ohio), and the American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC), have announced collaborative efforts to develop and deploy new technologies over satellite networks that are being used to provide distance education programming to underserved and rural areas of the United States. ADEC is a national consortium of 60 state and […]
Classrooms on campus getting more high-tech
Classrooms on campus are also delving deeper into the technical world.
Backers of Kentucky’s Telehealth Network Seek to Expand Its Reach
Government and university officials in Kentucky are seeking money to expand the state’s telehealth network so more residents in rural areas can receive advanced medical care