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Student laptops are a luxury

Given those problems, the state has made a puzzling decision to spend $37 million handing out laptops to all seventh- and eighth-grade students beginning this week. Surely, Maine can find better educational uses for the money than giving students individual computers they can take home. Read the Full Article

Intellectual property: Patently problematic

INTELLECTUAL-PROPERTY rights (IPR), which embrace patents, copyright, trademarks and trade secrets, were once considered an esoteric, and slightly dull, bit of commercial law. Read the Full Article

The University of Texas at Dallas-Executive MBA Program – Online

The Global Leadership Executive MBA Program – Online (GLEMBA) is similar to yet different from other MBA and EMBA programs and from many distance and online programs. GLEMBA combines the best of executive education and best of online learning for managers who need knowledge and skills to work globally and a convenient, flexible learning environment. […]

Faculty Union Seeks Agreement With U. of Massachusetts on Distance Courses

The university administration says it will go along with some of the union’s proposals, but others will be subject to negotiation. Read the Full Article

eCollege(SM) Opens Second, Full-Scale Data Center

“This marks another major advancement in our ability to provide the highest reliability, scalability, security and performance possible to drive the success of our clients’ full online programs,” said Oakleigh Thorne, chairman and CEO of eCollege. “To achieve the high student completion and retention rates our customers strive for, it takes a lot more than […]

National security course taught online

So an American national security course is being taught in the only medium that can truly keep up online. Read the Full Article

NEW: $700,000 grant to help SAC, UTSA turn out more engineers

The National Science Foundation grants, totaling $732,194, will be used to develop curriculum and to provide scholarships to minority and disadvantaged students pursuing engineering education at SAC. Read the Full Article

Study finds no link yet between internet access, test scores in California schools

Looking at data from California schools, the study concludes the eRate was successful at connecting that state’s schools to the internet, accelerating the process by as many as four years. But the program has done nothing to improve the test scores of schoolchildren so far, researchers say. Read the Full Article

Aiken Tech courses go online

It is the first time Ms. Turner has taught from her computer and not a classroom. Read the Full Article

Web accelerators — speed without broadband

Such Web performance enhancements are being offered to individual consumers by services such as Propel Accelerator for personal computers, BlueKite in mobile computers and Bitstream’s ThunderHawk for handheld computers and eventually mobile phones. Read the Full Article