‘Livetext: Yamacraw prof throws away book to teach computer programming
David Gries has seen the future of college textbooks, and its only a click away.
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McGraw-Hill Education and icubed Form Alliance to Provide First Online Music Appreciation Course
Innovative Course Revolutionizes Music Learning
M.I.T. Media Lab at 15: Big Ideas, Big Money
FOR 15 years, there has been one mantra at the Media Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: “Demo or die.”
University, company links under fire
THE honeymoon may soon be over for the universities and technikons and their private education partners that are offering distance courses to mainly black students, while denying them the benefits of a campus education.
WHEN CADAVERS are in short supply, virtual anatomy is the new next best thing
A Free Computer Program Offers a Detailed Look at the Human Skull
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS offers faculty members an incentive to teach distance-education courses
The university turns over to academic departments 83 percent of the tuition paid by their students who live more than 50 miles away.
Superstars Online
Last fall Harvard Law School professor Arthur Miller taped a series of 11 lectures and sold them to the Concord University School of Law, a virtual university founded by Kaplan Inc., the test-preparation company. Miller was stunned when Harvard administrators told him he had violated university policy by providing course material to another school without […]
Craft Exhibition at ASU’s Step Gallery Features the Real and the Virtual
“2D or Not 2D,” a solo exhibition by Australian ceramist and digital artist Stephen Goldate, will be on display at the ASU Step Gallery, in Tempe Center, Nov. 13 – 22. A reception with the artist will be held from 7 to 9 p.m., Nov. 13.
booktech.com Selected by the University of Texas TeleCampus as Custom Publisher of Education Materials for Online Learners
WOBURN, Mass., Nov 7, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) — booktech.com (AMEX:BTC), a first mover in digital and on-demand custom-content publishing focused on education markets, has been selected by UT TeleCampus (UTTC) of The University of Texas System as the custom publisher of textbooks, coursepackets and other educational and training materials for its online distance education degree […]
UNext and LearnShare(TM) Announce Strategic Partnership
DEERFIELD, Ill., Nov. 7 /PRNewswire/ — UNext.com, a leader in online learning and professional training and education, today announced a strategic partnership with LearnShare(TM), a consortium of 13 Fortune 500 corporations that share training and professional development research, expertise, and resources.