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Workshop trains Harvard faculty to use Internet resources in courses

This week, roughly 45 faculty members and teaching fellows in the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences will attend a “Web Pedagogies Workshop” designed to teach them how to better integrate the Internet into their courses.

Internet puts cheating, plagiarism a mouse-click away for students

— “Honesty is a fundamental precept in all academic activities, and those privileged to be members of a university community have a special obligation to observe the highest standards of honesty and a right to expect the same standards of all others. Academic misconduct in any form is inimical to the purposes and functions of […]

West Virginia University Offering More Internet Courses

Up to 700 students could enroll in online courses this fall, compared to about 300 students who accessed courses from their home or work computers last fall, Day-Perroots said Friday.

New York resident is Texas TeleCampus program’s first graduate

Julianne Phillips, an IBM educator living in Poughkeepsie, New York, received her masters degree in May from the University of Texas-Brownsville — a campus she has walked on only once.

New Online Courses from the University of California, Irvine

This summer the University of California, Irvine is offering a variety of new courses in each of their programming areas, Art and Cultural Appreciation, Information Technology, Management & Leadership, English, Health Sciences, and French.

Athabasca University’s First Graduates of the MBA in IT Management Bridge the Gap between Business and Technology

MBA Grads in IT Management Mean Better Business Online. The first graduates of Athabasca University’s MBA in Information Technology Management (MBA in ITM) program are netting the benefits of learning about the world of business online. After two and a half years of studying online a combination of core business management and information technology courses […]

‘Georgia Gets It’ Using KnowledgeNet E-Learning — University System of Georgia Joins Forces With KnowledgeNet To Provide High-Quality Online IT Training

KnowledgeNet.com, Inc., a leader in next generation e-learning, announced today that 19 University System of Georgia public colleges and universities will offer next generation IT training through KnowledgeNet. The relationship between KnowledgeNet and the institutions will be facilitated through Georgia GLOBE (Global Learning Online for Business & Education), a unit of the University System of […]

Online university scheme hangs in balance

The future of Universitas 21, the much-vaunted elite consortium scheme for a global online university, appears to be in serious doubt.

Distance learning growing

A state-funded education program ithe nation that uses working teachers to help train and mentor their peers in the practical use of computers and instructional technology.

Penn State Professor Creates Global Management CD-ROM That May Revolutionize Executive Education

Executive education and corporate communications are moving to an exciting new level in the digital world-complete with state-of-the-art graphics and digitized sound — through a CD-ROM developed by the Center for Global Business Studies at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business.