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Intellectual Property in Academia 2002

This series of online workshops will provide participants with an understanding of select intellectual property issues facing higher education in today’s rapidly changing digital environment. Read The Full Article

Blackboard’s Chairman Edits a Scholarly Work on the Internet and Higher Education

“E-learning is really about the oldest notion that higher education has ever known, which is to build a living and learning environment that’s open 24-7,” he says. Read The Full Article

New Roster Of Independent Non-Fiction Films Join Pbs Primetime Lineup In 2003

Pasadena, Calif. – July 26, 2002 – Independent documentaries will be presented in a series new to the PBS primetime schedule beginning February 2003, it was announced today by Pat Mitchell, president and CEO of PBS, at the Television Critics Association Press Tour in Pasadena. INDEPENDENT LENS, a yearly 10-week fall series that premiered in […]

Skills Development through Distance Education

This book examines the various aspects of delivering skills training by open and distance learning: the stakeholders; the learners; the curriculum; designing, developing and delivering the courses; supporting the students; training the staff; accrediting the results and assuring the quality of training. It also looks at ways of teaching practical skills. The final chapter brings […]

Bush Administration Unveils New Bilingual Web Site Featuring Tools for Families, Information on Getting to College

The study indicates that Hispanic children are more likely to miss out on crucial steps leading to college unless these knowledge deficits are remedied. Read The Full Article

Online Collaborative Learning in Higher Education

Here you’ll find links to online articles, books, journals, and other relevant information. Visit the Site – http://musgrave.cqu.edu.au/clp/clpsite/index.htm

Alcatraz is not an island; Alcatraz is an inspiration

The government did all these things and sat on tribes for so many years Š and yet still, in 1969, there’s still a group of people who were willing to stand up and say, we want our freedom. We want to be Native people. We want our own governments. We want the right to self […]

UNESCO promotes new initiative for free educational resources on the Internet

The sixteen principal participants from universities in developing and industrialized countries and representatives of six international and non-governmental organizations express in the declaration adopted by the Forum their wish to develop together a universal educational resource available for the whole of humanity, to be referred to henceforth as Open Educational Resources.Read The Full Article

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A Book and CD-ROM Offer Humanities and Social-Science Professors Tips for Using Computers

“We were just going to edit a book with papers from the conference,” says Mr. Burton, a professor of history and sociology at the university. “But you couldn’t really explain the excitement of the innovations that were occurring in the traditional written form.” Read The Full Article