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A LAND WORTH LOVING Puts Our Environmental Future In TV Spotlight

The UK throws away enough rubbish to fill the Royal Albert Hall every hour. As the ecological impacts that each one of us makes are an increasing worry for thousands, a peaktime BBC/Open University co-production documentary brings to the fore our changing environment and quality of life. In A Land Worth Loving – the first […]

Cyber censor to watch out for students’ bad language

“Sex” will be out as will the “wildcards” favoured by students who use asterisks or question marks to disguise swear words. Read The Full Article

De Beers chooses Learning Resources for online learning programme

The solution implemented by Learning Resources, deployed over the De Beers intranet, uses Click2Learn’s Aspen Enterprise e-Learning Suite to automate the delivery and management of blended learning. Read The Full Article

UCLA Awarded $2 Million Grant From Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Fred Eiserling — UCLA dean of life sciences, professor of microbiology and molecular genetics, and director of UCLA’s Undergraduate Biological Sciences Education Program — said the grant will enable UCLA to expand outreach programs that improve the science preparation of students in urban public schools, expand programs for undergraduates who are preparing to become science […]

Summary of the Determination of the Librarian of Congress on Rates and Terms for Webcasting and Ephemeral Recordings

In place of the rates recommended by the CARP (see CARP recommendations), the Librarian has adopted the following rates: See the Recommendations

UC Berkeley’s first entirely online course could lead way to more classes without a classroom

“Gems and Gem Materials,” an undergraduate class being taught this fall by Jill Banfield, a professor of earth and planetary sciences, is getting a trial run as cautious faculty members wait to hear what students think. Read The Full Article

Distance-Education Alliance Backed by Oxford, Stanford, and Yale Will Offer Courses to the Public

The company, until now known as the Alliance for Lifelong Learning, will also dump its unwieldy name for a more marketable one: AllLearn. Read The Full Article

NYIT Culinary Arts Center Brings Distance Learning to the Classroom Kitchen

(New York)–Distance learning initiatives at NYIT have moved the teaching of culinary arts education from the classroom kitchen to the video monitor. Now students can benefit from instruction and direct participation no matter where they’re located or where the content provider is situated. This program once again puts NYIT on the cutting edge of new […]

IBM grant will fund Web site for teachers

The site is designed to help all teachers, from the most experienced to those just starting out. Several teacher-training colleges, including San Jose State University, will participate in the program with San Jose Unified. Read The Full Article

FACE TO FACE is an Electric Shadows Project Presented by ITVS Interactive

(SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA) – December 7, 1941 and September 11, 2002. . . two days that changed the world forever. Sixty years separate these two events and their aftermath, but how much have things really changed? Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, people of Japanese descent living in the U.S. were subjected to the emotional […]