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New at JASON Project

The JASON XII Live Field Expedition is underway. Watch a live JASON Project broadcast, courtesy of EDS.com Fly over the Big Island or dive down to the Loihi Seamount. We’ve added two new video streams courtesy of NOAA. Enter the JASON XII Student Art Contest

January issue of F-LIGHT

This new issue spotlights ways of helping faculty do more and better evaluations, leading with a report from Cal State Sacramento and then discussing Teaching, Learning, and Technology Roundtables (if your institution doesn’t yet have a Roundtable or you could use some help with yours, check out this article).

Comprehensive Assessment of Public Information Dissemination June 2000 – March 2001

The US National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) has just completed Volume 1 of the Comprehensive Assessment of Public Information Dissemination.

Cable in the Classroom

This $2 million-per-week effort, supported by 39 national cable networks and over 8,500 local cable companies, provides schools across the U.S. with free cable service and over 540 hours per month of commercial-free educational programming

ITVS and PBS.org Launch Web Site for FROM SWASTIKA TO JIM CROW

The Independent Television Service (ITVS) and PBS.org debut the companion Web site to the documentary FROM SWASTIKA TO JIM CROW The television program will be broadcast nationally on PBS on February 1, 2001 at 10:00 p.m. (Check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/fromswastikatojimcrow) FROM SWASTIKA TO JIM CROW tells the untold story of the German Jewish professors […]

“Designing Easy-to-use Websites”

Interview with Vanessa Donnelly author of “Designing Easy-to-use Websites”

College Business Course Instructors and Students Offered Direct Access to Standard & Poor’s Financial Data Through McGraw-Hill Education

Two divisions of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP) have announced their collaboration to bring instructors and students of business courses fundamental financial data on the most often researched companies in the United States.

EDUCAUSE Expands Online Guide to Evaluating Information Technology

BOULDER, Colorado — EDUCAUSE, the association dedicated to transforming higher education through information technology, has significantly expanded its Guide to Evaluating Information Technology on Campus. Since its introduction in the spring of 2000, the Guide has helped thousands of prospective college students and their parents evaluate the technology resources provided by the schools in which […]

Learning site goes `live’

A NEW educational tool is now at teachers’ and students’ fingertips, with The Advertiser Newspapers in Education Website going “live” today. The website, an interactive educational resource, has been under construction throughout the school holidays and will be up and running by mid-morning. Among its highlights is the opportunity for students to interview journalists, columnists […]

OnlineLearning’s January 2001 Issue

E-learning’s future; matchmaking; evangelism; teacher time