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Flanked by political heavyweights such as Republican Sen. Larry Craig and Secretary of State Pete Cenarrusa at a news conference, Tom Luna called on Marilyn Howard and the Idaho Department of Education to release $114,100 in operating funds to the Idaho Leadership Academy in Pingree. Read the Full Article
Though it failed to eliminate the divide, the program—established in 1999—did succeed in equipping nearly 1,000 high-tech computer labs in underserved areas across the country before pulling the plug. Read the Full Article
Distance Educator.com: Dr. Ritchie, recently, you announced the expansion of the distance education offerings by the Department of Educational Technology at San Diego State University. Would you tell us about the origin and recent history of your online program? Dr. Ritchie: We began offering students the ability to take our distance courses in 1996. At […]
The U.S. Department of Education is issuing a final regulation in today’s Federal Register to kill a once-obscure financial-aid restriction that had become a source of repeated complaints. Distance-education providers have been calling loudly for the rule’s demise for several years, arguing that it prevented them from developing innovative online programs. Read the Full Article
U.S. Education Secretary Rod Paige hailed the major deregulation effort as an example of the Bush Administration’s commitment to improving the department’s federal student aid programs. Read the Full Article
The news agency and information provider is rolling out Oracle’s iLearning management system as part of an overall self-service strategy based on Oracle technology which includes online expenses claims. Read the Full Article
Mr. Kapor, who in 1982 created the first so-called killer app for personal computing, the Lotus 123 spreadsheet, and was a co-founder of the Lotus Development Corporation, has financed the new organization, the Open Source Applications Foundation, with $5 million of his own money. But he is also accepting donations. Andy Hertzfeld, a leader of […]
The European Commission has awarded UK consultancy Netproject a pilot contract to examine deployment of open source software in government departments.
At St. Bonaventure Parish Parochial School, technology literacy education is integrated throughout the entire curriculum at every grade level. Instead of learning computer basics and software skills, however, every student in the school will increase his or her technology literacy by helping to design and build a virtual reality game. Read the Full Article
LIS 519 – Selection, Acquisition and Management of Non-Book Materials LIS 581 – Management of Libraries and Information Agencies LIS 584 – Academic and Research Libraries Spring Semester courses will be offered January 13 – April 28, 2003 Spring 2003 registration begins October 26, 2002 See the Distance Learning Web Page for cost and online […]