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CHICAGO, Feb. 20 (AScribe Newswire) — A team from the University of Illinois at Chicago has developed the first interactive tool using mobile phones to educate the public about pandemic flu. Read the Full Story
During the last 15 years, we in education have moved at light speed in the area of educational technology. Whether you are involved in higher ed, secondary ed, elementary ed, or special ed, all of us find it difficult to catch up, keep up, and put up with fast-moving computer-based technology. Not since the introduction […]
When Fallon Speaker, 17, walked into her distance learning classroom last semester, she was never quite sure if she would be able to see her teacher. Read the Full Story
UK distance-learning institution Open University has signed an agreement to deploy an information lifecycle management (ILM) infrastructure from storage company EMC.Read the Full Story
Editor-in-chief James Morrison sat down with Deneen Frazier Bowen at the 2005 National Educational Computing Conference to discuss her unique presentation “The Natives are Restless,” a series of dramatic sketches dealing with the utilization of technology in educational settings. Bowen’s sketches examined students’ difficulties in relating school to real life as well as teachers’ insecurities […]
As college professors post lectures online, they’re seeing a rise in absenteeism. A low-tech response to no-shows: more surprise quizzes.Read the Full Story
Apple Computer’s announcement of new Macs based on processors from Intel raises an interesting question: Since both the Mac and Windows operating systems now run on Intel-based hardware, shouldn’t it be easy to run both on the same computer? Read the Full Story
HOW CAN TECHNOLOGY in education affect the workforce and economic development? What kind of leadership will it take to align learning and technology in the 21st century? Can we bridge the gap between education reform, technology, and No Child Left Behind requirements simultaneously? Read the article
Waukesha – Thanks to major contract concessions by the company that runs the Waukesha School District’s virtual high school, a School Board committee decided Monday to recommend keeping iQ Academies at Wisconsin open. Read the article online
El Centro College of Dallas (TX) County Community College District is the first Blackboard enterprise client to adopt Tegrity enhanced podcasting. Tuck Minnett, El Centro’s Director of Distance Learning says that “iPods are everywhere and their portability is becoming an inevitable part of education’s future. Our students are now able to reinforce their learning while […]