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Next year, high-school students looking for more challenge or variety in their studies will be able to take online courses that the University of Washington is developing from its undergraduate curriculum.
The university is in the process of developing a transportation-and-parking master plan that will address the lack of available parking spaces on campus
It’s not often Stanford throws a gala of the size kicked off last Saturday. Part learning event, part mass reunion and part high-tech celebration, the 12-city “Think Again” tour made its first stop at the Oregon Convention Center
Is online education a godsend to busy professionals who cannot otherwise take college courses, or is it a low-quality option that should be avoided? The Chronicle asked a distance-education administrator to face off with a prominent critic of educational technology to debate the question “What is the appropriate role of online education?”
Consider yourselves warned. In response to the increased number of University of Oregon Internet users downloading and duplicating copyrighted software, the administration sent out an e-mail Monday reminding them of the Computing Center’s acceptable use policy.
The battle over file-sharing and Internet piracy has a new combatant on the field — an ally for the recording industry, and a headache for technical-staff members and lawyers at some colleges and universities.
Capella University has launched a first-of-its-kind Web-based assessment tool for adults considering continuing their education – the 2-Minute Advisor (patent pending). The 2-Minute Advisor(SM) is an interactive tool designed to provide individuals personalized course and program recommendations based on their interests and specific needs.
Students at schools ranging from Columbia and Duke universities to the universities of Florida and South Carolina are using a Mississippi State University-authored textbook to learn more about how humans learn.
It is a set of questions that the higher education community has posed for years: How can we turn information technology from talk to action? How can we move from describing its promise to measuring its benefits? In short, how can we make IT real? Real as flesh and blood. Real as brick and mortar. […]