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Satellite Campuses: Distance Learning to the Rescue?

FOR the umpteenth time, the Federal Government has once again banned satellite campuses of universities, sending ripples across the education sector. Will the ban be effectively carried out this time around?

Ohio U. officials blame easy access, copyright ignorance for academic misconduct

access and copyright law ignorance are some of the causes of a recent rise in students pirating their papers from the Internet, Ohio University officials said.

U. Arizona plagiarism rate rising

The University of Arizona discovered more than 60 cases of plagiarism last school year, a more than 75 percent increase from the previous year.

Turnitin.com now used by U. Central Florida to detect plagiarism

March 2001 brought a solution to the plagiarism epidemic on the University of Central Florida’s campus. At that time, UCF joined hundreds of other education institutions by subscribing to Turnitin.com, a tool that catches plagiarism in written works

EDITORIAL: Plagiarism not worth its price

Ohio University students are beginning to write their first mid-term assignments. These papers often require extensive research, or at least a passing knowledge of the subject at hand.

Open Varsity System May Start Next Year

National Open University system is expected to come on stream and replace the banned satellite campuses where thousands of students have been affected.

Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education Offering Advanced Wireless Technology Training Program

In a move that will provide specialized education to meet the growing demand for wireless technologies and applications, WIRELESS INFOTECH Education Services(SM) has signed an agreement with the Educational Resources Group of Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education to immediately begin offering a unique, advanced wireless technology training program. Using WIRELESS INFOTECH Education Services’ Knowledge […]

Walden University Introduces First Ph.D. In Public Policy and Administration Available Through Distance Education

Walden University is introducing the first online Ph.D. in Public Policy and Administration this December. The introduction of this new program comes in response to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ projections of significant increases in U.S., national, state and local government employment and the impending retirement of Baby Boomers in the public and nonprofit sectors […]

Insight: Brave New World for Higher Education

Digital technologies have created the “open-source” university

MIT OpenCourseWare Fact Sheet

The idea behind OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) is to make MIT course materials that are used in the teaching of almost all undergraduate and graduate subjects available on the web, free of charge, to any user anywhere in the world.