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Bernadette Robinson is a professor of comparative education in the School of Continuing Education at the University of Nottingham, in Britain. At the university, she has a special appointment to conduct research and help develop international collaborations. She has acted as a consultant to 37 different countries, most of them developing nations, that are creating […]
U-M Will Be the First Non-Chinese University to Offer Higher Education Degrees in China
A few years ago, dozens of business schools were jockeying for position in what promised to be a booming market for online M.B.A.’s. The Internet was going to revolutionize business education, and any school that didn’t act fast would be left in the dust.
UMassOnline is taking a major step in building its eLearning technology infrastructure and expanding its capacity for delivering educational programs over the Web. UMassOnline announced today that it will build and host a dual platform eLearning “utility” using software from Prometheus and the Massachusetts-based IntraLearn.
When he arrived to teach his first class on “Global Conflict” last week, Mark Juergensmeyer found himself stepping around students who were spilling onto the stairs and stage of his lecture hall – while other hopefuls waited in a line snaking out the door.
Some 5,000 Open University students across the North are getting the chance to pioneer a scheme that will open up computer and Internet access to tens of thousands of their colleagues.
A major exhibition of masterpieces from the Library’s extensive collection of Japanese art and literature will be on display in the North and South Galleries of the Great Hall of the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building from Sept. 27, 2001, through Jan. 5, 2002. Hours for the exhibition are 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday-Saturday. “The […]
Welcome to the next millennium in back-to-school needs. From notebook computers and Palm Pilots to Playstation 2 systems and DVD players, college students are headed to school this year with the latest in technology.
The transition from high school to college has never been easy. As the current average graduation rate at four-year colleges or universities of less than 50% shows, the college experience has not become any easier. An increasing number of students, therefore, want to get a head start and take college-level courses while still in high […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI), a cluster of awards totaling $12 million. As one of the awardees, EDUCAUSE will join several institutional research centers and Internet consortia in a cooperative agreement to develop network collaboration tools and infrastructure protocols to support the next generation of the Internet.