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The Internet2 K20 Initiative brings together Internet2 member institutions, primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities, libraries, and museums to get new technologies—advanced networking tools, applications, middleware, and content—into the hands of innovators, across all educational sectors in the United States, as quickly and as “connectedly” as possible. http://www.internet2.edu/.
The impact of technology in the field of education and training may currently be the most dynamic catalyst for economic, political and societal change in America and around the world. The events of the past year have significantly increased the acute need for establishing new delivery systems and innovative strategies and program design, positioning the […]
The program, Rural Educators using Visualization to Inspire Teacher Advancement and Learning to Improve Science and Mathematics Education, or REVITALISE, is funded in part by the National Science Foundation. Read the Full Article
Last year, the University of South Dakota started requiring its freshmen to bring Palm hand-held computers to class, along with their notebooks and texts. Read the Full Article
Palm, the pioneer of the handheld computer, is reinventing itself again. Read the Full Article
EDUCAUSE 2002: Juggling Opportunities in Collaborative Environments Atlanta, Georgia Georgia World Congress Center October 1-4
Signing into a virtual classroom created by the University of Phoenix and nestling plugs into her ears, Bartku was oblivious to the droning engines while she worked uninterrupted for 14 hours as the plane crossed the Pacific. Read the Full Article
The project is expected to start on a pilot basis in the month of November and would be utilizing the KU-band satellite resources for connectivity. Read the Full Article
Independent research report also cites customer comments on GeoLearning’s “superb customer service” and “ease of use.” Training Media Review (TMR), an independent research firm that reviews training content and supporting technologies, today released a research report awarding the GeoLearning learning management system and e-learning delivery platform an overall rating of 3.75 out of a possible […]
Event Details and Agenda For instructions to view the symposium and more information on ESM, see: www.cs.cmu.edu/~ESM-streaming. ESM enables live streaming over the Internet through a unique, distributed coordination mechanism that permits viewers’ Internet-connected computers, referred to here as end systems, to self-organize into a data distribution tree structure. The tree structure continuously adapts to […]