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The terms “PeopleSoft” and “Project e*mpac” are being heard more frequently around the University these days. PeopleSoft is an integrated suite of software applications, which includes human resources and financial management functions, as well as student administration.
Tuition at the University of Washington is about to become a whole lot cheaper. Beginning this summer, the UW will offer nearly a dozen online courses on topics ranging from Gulliver’s Travels to the American Civil War to HTML basics – all for free.
To answer a changing demographic in the county and region, an exciting education program designed for North Bay residents 50 or older will be launched at Sonoma State University this fall. The new Lifelong Learning Institute will offer an evolving array of courses taught by distinguished faculty from the Bay Area region.
Stanford University’s Law School has teamed up with personal digital assistant (PDA) vendor Palm Inc. [NASDAQ:PALM] and West Group, an online law database, in a test to see how well the PDAs help students learn and communicate.
UCLA students may soon find that waiting for gradecards, scanning progress reports on bulletin boards, and sifting through printed class information are only distant memories. Technology developers at UCLA have created an Electronic Gradebook system, and with the online project comes the beginning of a new era in relationships between faculty and students at California’s […]
NETg has partnered wP> University of Illinois learners are now able to take information technology and professional skills courses in an environment including true-to-life simulations and a highly interactive approach to learning desktop applications and programming skills. Ultimately, NETg’s XtremeLearning allows users to engage in self-paced professional development programs and provides a no-cost alternative for […]
President Brian Hawkins sent a letter to Senator John McCain, chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, expressing strong concern over a recent amendment requiring colleges and universities to monitor the use of wire communications to determine whether illegal gambling activities are occurring. This amendment raises serious questions about user privacy rights and […]
University students are performing badly because they have been spending too long on the internet, claims a survey.
The University of Washington Educational Outreach, in partnership with the schools of nursing and medicine and the College of Education, will offer a distance-learning certificate program in brain research in education, beginning in June.
Technology is changing the traditional classroom setting into a stimulating, interactive environment for learning. It can invigorate a boring lesson into an exciting, hands on experience and engage students to be more active in their education. The H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management showcased new developments in this emerging field when […]