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THE EVER-SHIFTING INTERNET POPULATION

A new sense of the shifting Internet population. The online population is fluid and shifting. While 42% of Americans say they don’t use the Internet, nearly half of them either have been Internet users at one time or have a once-removed relationship with the Internet through family or household members. This report focuses on several […]

“Virtual School Report” Launched, Focused on Virtual K-12 Public Education

BALTIMORE, MD – In an effort to help school officials and state and local legislators keep pace with the rapid growth of K-12 virtual schooling, Connections Academy, a leading national provider of high quality, highly accountable virtual public schools, today unveiled the “Virtual School Report,” a newsletter focused on effective virtual education. The quarterly newsletter, […]

Implementation Issues of SCORM

Supporting Collaborative Learning Activities with SCORM This paper investigates the data elements required to fully and flexibly support a broad range of collaborative learning activities and proposes extensions to the SCORM data model to enable support for collaborative learning designs within SCORM. The analysis is partly based on a range of well established collaborative learning […]

The Online 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. Access the […]

Television Technology – A Short History

What people may not recognize is the extent to which every area of their life is intertwined with the communications technologies the FCC has responsibility to regulate. Read the Full Article

SpaceLink: NASA Television’s education schedule, July 2003

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World Bank e-Library

The World Bank e-library is one of the most comprehensive collections in the area of social and economic development. The World Bank e-library

UC to launch open-access journals

In a trend that could permanently alter the nature of scholarly publishing, several top research universities are setting up electronic superarchives to store and share their researchers’ data.Read the Full Article

Website a fun way to encourage kids to read

The library, a joint project of the University of Maryland and the Internet Archive, is billed as the world’s largest digital library for children. And if you have kids, this is one of the most fun and educational Web sites you’ll ever see. Read the Full Article

GPO [Government Printing Office] goes Amazon route

GPO is encouraging customers to make use of its online bookstore, which offers all available government publications and titles. Mail, phone and fax orders will still be processed as before. Read the Full Article