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Course content: Students learn to plan plant-feeding regimens for nurseries and greenhouses, focusing on four particularly important factors in plant nutrition: soil, irrigation, fertilization, and management of surface water.
“Look Ma, no wires,” may be the subject line of many emails sent by students at Lawrence Technological University this fall. Walls and wires won’t confine Lawrence Tech’s laptop- toting students anymore. The University is the first in Michigan to offer students wireless access to the Internet from anywhere within its academic cluster; be it […]
Abilene, an Internet2 backbone network, recently enabled Ethernet inventor and 3Com founder Bob Metcalfe to deliver a live HDTV presentation from MIT to the Networld+Interop exhibition floor in Las Vegas. Abilene now connects over 180 universities, with at least one university in each of the 50 states. Many more participants are on the way; recent […]
Henrico County Public Schools (HCPS) has selected Beyond Books to provide the educational content the district will deliver to its laptop-equipped high school students beginning this fall. The school district, located just outside Richmond, Va., recently announced an agreement to purchase laptop computers for every middle and high school student and teacher. This is the […]
ETS Technologies, Inc. announced today its e-raterINTO automated essay scoring technology will be used within PricewaterhouseCoopers’ online learning portal providing U.S. Army soldiers convenient and easy access to higher education degrees and advanced training certifications. The e-rater technology will provide online assessment of soldiers’ writing skills for those soldiers seeking higher education via the Army […]
AARP has joined with Fathom, the e-Learning company created by the world’s leading educational and cultural institutions, to bring online learning and courses to AARP’s nearly 35 million members. Through a new learning area available on the AARP website at http://www.aarp.org/learn, the AARP will feature courses and free seminars from Fathom’s international network of universities, […]
An MBA is a hot commodity. So it seems only natural that the best MBA programs would analyze the market, target distribution to reach students, and develop courses based on industry trends and corporation needs. It may be natural, but it’s surprisingly rare. At Penn State, innovative professors and administrators have used business principles to […]
An Internet “portal” where soldiers can register and enroll in online college courses has been declared fully operational by the U.S. Army and its contractor, PricewaterhouseCoopers. The portal is called eArmyU.
Library Technology Joins the Digital Campus SALT LAKE CITY July 23, 2001 Campus Pipeline, Inc. and Talis Information Limited today announced a marketing agreement that will bring together Campus Pipelines Web-integration software and services with the United Kingdoms leading provider of integrated library systems. Under the agreement, Talis will market the Campus PipelineLAKE Web platform […]
Since its virtual doors opened in 1999, Western Governors University has delivered via the Internet the degree programs of other universities. Now the university is repackaging those degrees and selling them back to the brick-and-mortar world of academe.