Book Review: Virtual Education: Cases in Learning and Teaching Technologies
virtual education: an overview of the field, a case of a Web-based computer information systems degree, a quality assurance system, and a virtual advisor;Read the Full Story
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The Digital Book; A Medial Revolution without a New Medium
Is the Internet—or rather the World Wide Web contained in it—a medium that opposes the book? In the context of discussions regarding media competition, this idea is becoming widespread. Infinitely more exciting, though, is that we are experiencing an information technology revolution and, in fact, a medial revolution without a new medium.lume is designed to […]
“Wide Angle” Video Cassettes And Discussion Guides
Now Thirteen/WNET New York is offering a free Educational Package that includes five WIDE ANGLE video cassettes and a 24-page discussion guide.This package will be useful in international relations, economics and journalism courses, as we as in other subject areas. The discussion guide offers insightful essays, discussion topics and suggested resources. Each video includes specially […]
The Digital Michelangelo Project
The project has mainly focused on some of Michelangelo’s sculptures, including the famous David statue, but has also “scanned 1,163 fragments of the Forma Urbis Romae, a giant marble map of ancient Rome.” Visitors to the project’s homepage can download the ScanView software, which lets users virtually fly around the models of the statues. Research […]
McGraw-Hill Higher Education Offers Unique Access to Microsoft eLearning Library
NEW YORK, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – McGraw-Hill Higher Education’s eLearning group has signed a strategic agreement with Microsoft® to offer higher education institutions full access to the Microsoft eLearning Library (MELL). MELL provides a cost-effective, in-depth training and reference resource that includes the complete suite of Microsoft products.Read the Full Story
The Abilene Observatory
The observatory serves network engineers by providing a view of the operational data associated with a large-scale network, and the research community by providing data associated with the fundamental properties of basic network protocols. Read the Full Story
Directory of Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments
Governments are listed in alphabetical order according to the most commonly used version of each country’s name. The spelling of the personal names in this directory follows transliteration systems generally agreed upon by US Government agencies, except in the cases in which officials have stated a preference for alternate spellings of their names.Read the Full […]
Aplia Announces Revenue & Usage Results
San Carlos, Calif., Oct. 21, 2003 – Aplia Inc., a new-generation educational publisher, today announced statistics showing dramatic growth of the company, including increases in revenue, usage and conversion rates.The company now has more than 24,000 students at 400 institutions using Aplia’s educational materials—a 50 percent increase over last semester. Aplia has also experienced a […]
Digging for Nuggets of Wisdom
Medline, the database that already houses more than 10 million abstracts for journal articles, is adding 7,000 to 8,000 abstracts per week. Only a fraction of these are about cancer, but the volume of information is daunting nonetheless.Read the Full Story
“Leadership In Organisations”: New Title Highlights Key Trends
Leadership is now one of the most controversial and hotly contested themes in the world of business schools and among private and public sector organisations. This book makes a new overall assessment of the most important current issues and trends. Among its topics are: leadership and integrity in the post-Enron era; the process of […]