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The Distance Education Association of Southern Africa (DEASA) has launched a journal to help members share experiences, views, knowledge and prowess. The publication will be known as the DEASA SADC-Centre for Distance Education (CDE) International Journal of Open and Distance Learning. It will focus on issues of Open Distance Learning (ODL).Read the Full Article
This fall, teachers will have free online access to a video vault featuring more than 60 years of historic news and information, thanks to a partnership between NBC News and HotChalk, an online learning management system for K-12 education. To provide primary-source multimedia content that far exceeds what is available in traditional textbooks, NBC News […]
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f there’s one thing New England has in great supply, it’s books. And that makes the area one of the battlegrounds in the digital library wars—the competition between commercial entities such as Google and Microsoft and non-profit groups such as the Internet Archive to secure agreements to scan, digitize, and distribute the world’s print literature. […]
The University of Washington Libraries has been building its Digital Collections since 1996, when the Libraries began digitizing materials in Special Collections. Materials in the Digital Collections are diverse and reflect the strength of the UW Libraries collections including materials about Native Americans, people and places of the Pacific Northwest as well as Napoleonic era […]
In 1995, Microsoft added a free Web browser to its operating system in an attempt to fend off new rivals, an effort ultimately blocked by the courts.Read the Full Article
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — NASA and Internet Archive of San Francisco are partnering to scan, archive and manage the agency’s vast collection of photographs, historic film and video. The imagery will be available through the Internet and free to the public, historians, scholars, students and researchers.Read the Full Article
Contents: 1. How serious a problem is academic plagiarism? 2. So what is plagiarism? 3. Types of plagiarism 3.1. Straight plagiarism 3.2. Plagiarism citing the original author but without adequate quotation marks or references 3.3 Simple plagiarism using a footnote 3.4. Complex plagiarism using a footnote 3.5 Plagiarism with hanging quotations 3.6. Paraphrasing as plagiarism […]
