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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Boston, MA, February 1, 2001 – Course Technology, a division of Thomson Learning, today announced that they have begun hosting their popular SAM 2000 skills-based assessment software for Microsoft® Office 2000 on their own Internet server. SAM 2000 Net-Ready incorporates the same user-interface and features of the current version of SAM 2000 […]
In 1996, when the University began offering the first web-based courses we began studying teaching and learning in this new instructional environment. From the student perspective, we are examining who enrolls in and succeeds in on-line cours es as well as what students like and dont like about these courses. We are also examining these […]
“Introduction to C++” Presented by: Stan Lippman, IT Program Chair of You-niversity.com Date: February 7, 2001 Time: 3:00 PM EST
This month’s feature is about the University of Cambridge rewriting their rule requiring students to reside in the town of Cambride, England. The rule book was revised to make way for the universitys first Internet-enabled program, a Global MBA program currently under development.
Information technology now pervades our daily lives, whether we like it or not. And while it opens new doors to commerce and communications, it also can threaten our privacy, our finances and even our personal safety. Experts discuss how we can keep important information safe and secure in a high-tech world this Sunday on Technogenesis®, […]
They alone have the legal rights to reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, or publicly display their works or to construct derivative works. The recently enacted Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) has created several complex questions related to distance education for which higher education institutions must quickly search for procedural answers. The questions framed in this paper […]
In His Latest Book, “Next,” GW University Professor and Renown Communitarian Amitai Etzioni Diagnoses Problems with American Politics and Society and Offers a New Domestic Agenda for Communities
The Digest of Education Statistics provides a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of education from prekindergarten through graduate school. Topics in the Digest include: the number of schools and colleges; teachers; enrollments; graduates; educational attainment; finances; federal funds for education; employment and income of graduates; libraries; technology; and international comparisons.
Teachers frequently find themselves in the glare of the media spotlight these days, but little of that attention is positive. Discussion tends to center on what can be done to hold them more accountable or to press them to ratchet up test scores.