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Professors to Develop Video, CD-ROM to Teach Functional Skills to Students With Disabilities

Three College of Education faculty members are working to develop a 30-minute interactive video and CD-ROM that will help teach functional community skills to students with moderate to severe intellectual disabilities.

A Professor of English Broadcasts From His Own Internet ‘Radio’ Station

AN ENGLISH PROFESSOR has turned his office into a virtual radio station that broadcasts continuously on the Internet. He plans to deliver entire courses over the Internet radio station.

Plan would merge ‘Net courses at colleges

A plan to merge all Internet courses offered by Colorado’s 28 colleges and universities into one statewide cooperative is scheduled for a vote Tuesday by the Colorado Commission on Higher Education.

First six graduate from all-Web MBA program

BALTIMORE, Maryland (AP) — The first six graduates of the University of Baltimore’s online Master of Business Administration program on Sunday received their degrees — and met for the first time.

Penn State Students Are Wired

Penn State is living up to its reputation as a wired university. As of the end of the fall semester more than 14,000 students, or 82 percent of all residence hall students system wide, had activated the free, high-speed data backbone connection to the Internet now available in their rooms. This is a 23 percent […]

Call for papers: Special issue of ‘Educational Technology & Society’

(ISSN 1436-4522) peer-reviewed journal on the theme: “Integrating Technology into Learning and Working” Important dates 15 January 2001: Deadline for initial proposals 15 March 2001: Reaction/notification on initial proposals 15 July 2001: Deadline for full papers 15 September 2001: Reaction/notification on papers (with possible rejections) 15 December 2001: Final versions of papers January 2002: Publication […]

eCollege (sm) to Power Two Schools Participating in the U.S. Army’s Unprecedented eLearning Initiative

North Carolina A&T State University and Northwest Missouri State University, using the eCollege (Nasdaq: ECLG) teaching platform, were selected as part of the winning team of institutions participating in the Army University Access Online (AUAO) initiative.

UMass Online CEO decision

The University system is close to having a chief executive officer for its new distance-learning venture, UMass Online.

Learning Anytime Anywhere Partnerships (LAAP) Is Up and Running For 2001

With a budget of $30 million, of which $15.5 supports new awards, LAAP will have a fruitful year in 2001! Preliminary proposals are planned for March 15, 2001. [Not to be confused with the FIPSE Comprehensive Program Preliminary Due Date of Jan. 26, 2001.]

Classes available at virtual university

Kentucky workers in need of upgrading their work skills can now “click” and go to class.