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The Committee on Research presented the Faculty Senate last week with what it hopes will be the outline for a debate over the next few months on Stanford’s policies toward distance learning. The debate may lead to adoption of an official policy on the issue sometime next year.
Information literacy a goal of restructuring composition course
As Nigeria prepares to run its Open University programme next year, University of South Africa (UNISA) in conjunction with Management Development Centre International last week stepped in the country with the launching of its On-line Distance Learning Graduate, Masters and Doctorate programmes.
Divinity School students in Ellen Aitken’s “Gospel of Mark” class studied a passage on divorce last week. While they searched themselves – and the pertinent literature – for the significance of the passage’s teachings, they also searched the Internet for details of their assignment.
Whenever a student leaves a workstation in one of Brigham Young University’s campus computer labs, an innocuous screen saver appears, giving the machine the illusion of idleness. In fact, the computer’s processors rev up, transforming it into a component of a virtual supercomputer that is struggling to solve a problem so complex that it has […]
General Motors Corp., Sun Microsystems and EDS continue to demonstrate their commitment to education by donating nearly $32 million in computer-aided design, manufacturing, and engineering (CAD/CAM/CAE) software, hardware and training to Northwestern University, located in Evanston, Ill. This is the largest in-kind contribution ever given to the University.
An Internet-based international news service is undergoing a trial period at Boston University until Dec. 5, allowing BU students to view streaming news webcasts from foreign broadcasts.
The partnership between Blackboard, Inc., the mainstay of the University’s online learning program, and Microsoft Corporation has aroused suspicion that the software giant may be trying to reduce the software options available to colleges and universities.
Despite being preoccupied with the potential and contentious Compaq merger, HP has managed to be first on the market with its new Blade server series.