Oxford to Open Internet Institute
The University of Oxford announces plans to open an Internet Institute, where scholars will research the Net and its effects on society.
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BBC and BBC Worldwide form partnership
BBC and BBC Worldwide have formed a partnership agreement with Fathom, creator of the online learning destination www.fathom.com, for content and course development in the area of History. The BBC and Fathom will co-produce and deliver an online history seminar with Columbia University. Fathom will also enter into a content alliance and marketing relationship with […]
University Gives Students Handheld Computers
Freshmen reporting for school next fall at the University of South Dakota will find something unusual in their orientation packet: a brand-new Palm Inc. handheld computer.
eCollege(SM) and HorizonLive Bring Real-Time Interaction To the Online Classroom
DENVER, May 7– eCollege(SM), an eLearning software and services provider, today announced an agreement with HorizonLive, a provider of live online interactive group learning and collaboration solutions, to offer synchronous tools to eCollege’s clients so they can interact with students online in real time. The synchronous tools facilitate highly interactive live classroom sessions, while still […]
Britain to get first new university for 20 years keystone is ‘lifelong learning’
£54m university in Cornwall will embrace new technology and offer courses online in a drive to stop the county’s ‘brain drain’
Video: An Insider’s View of Arizona State
E-learning and global ed are big challenges for B-schools today, says Dean Larry Penley, who also talks about his school’s training programs for John Deere and Lucent
Oxford’s Web University
Explorer Sir Raleigh attended in 1572. Physicist Stephen Hawking was there in 1959. And Web-founder Tim Berners Lee walked its hallowed halls in the early 1970s. With such distinguished alumni, its no wonder that one of the worlds most famed and recognized institutions of higher leaning is pioneering in education once again. Englands Oxford University […]
Cinema Science is Put To the Test
“That just can’t be done! There’s no way they could do that!” If you find yourself shouting at the TV screen because you find some of the special effects you’re watching on video too much to believe, a new BBC/Open University programme could give you the answers you’re looking for. In Hollywood Science, actor and […]
Ohio Supercomputer Center Licenses LabBooks XML-Life Sciences Solution For the State Of Ohio
McLEAN, VA, and COLUMBUS, OH – May 3, 2001 – LabBook, Inc., and OSC (Ohio Supercomputer Center) announced today that they have entered into an agreement that will provide LabBooks XML-Life Sciences Solution to Ohios academic community. Terms and financing of the agreement were not disclosed.