Archive for the ‘Resources’ Category

Where Learners Go

Libraries have traditionally played an important role in supplying high-quality information services and products used by people seeking to learn. They have always provided facilities that promote and encourage learning.Read the Full Story

LEARN: Lonestar Education and Research Network

The Lonestar Education And Research Network (LEARN) is a cooperative effort of 33 institutions of higher education in Texas to provide high-speed connectivity between their institutions as well as to research networks across the country in support of higher education’s research, teaching, health care, and public service missions. The LEARN network is intended to enhance […]

Wikibooks offers free text database online

Academic textbooks could become a thing of the past thanks to a new Web site.Read the Full Story

Webcast tackles IT gender gap

To engage girls in the study of science and technology, educators need to convey the right message about the roles these fields play in society and the skills they require–and they also need to provide more hands-on activities that have some social value.Read the Full Story

uCertify Launches Exam Simulation PrepKit for CompTIA’s new Linux+ (XK0-002) Cer

“This PrepKit has been developed by closely following the guidelines of the updated version of CompTIA’s Linux+ “2004” exam objectives. The new PrepKit comes with pre–defined and fully customizable tests with realistic questions, precise explanations of the correct as well as incorrect answers, and exhaustive study notes and guides. I am sure that this PrepKit […]

E-Learning Providers Offer Help in Wake of Katrina

Virtual schools opening slots in online classes to displaced students.Read the Full Story

Penn State partners with Sloan Consortium to assist hurricane victims

University Park, Pa. — Penn State’s World Campus, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences and School of Information Sciences and Technology have joined a Sloan Consortium initiative to offer a condensed online fall semester free of charge to students whose studies were disrupted by Hurricane Katrina.Read the Full Story

New Book on Media and E-Learning with Contributions from EDEN

We are pleased to inform, that a new book “E-Learning in Europe – Learning Europe: How have new media contributed to the development of higher education?” has been recently published in English, in the series “Medien in der Wissenschaft”, Germany (Waxmann Verlag, http://www.waxmann.com).Read the Full Story

Ball State goes ‘Into the Canyon,’ comes out with national award

Ball State University’s Electronic Field Trip (EFT) program has garnered national “Best of the Web” honors from the Center for Digital Education for one of its Web sites.Read the Full Story

Hurricane Media Literacy

Bringing Hurricane Katrina Into the Classroom: Media Literacy LessonsRead the Full Story