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With ads in the New Yorker and The New York Times online, posters on campus, and a link from the Columbia University home page, Columbia’s investments in online education are receiving more attention than ever before.
An interdisciplinary MIT team has identified key factors for successful virtual collaborations among members of globally dispersed teams, and continues work to make virtual meetings more effective. Underway for the last three years, the research integrates both organizational and technological challenges.
A key committee at Simon Fraser University has voted against offering a prestigious humanities-department appointment to David Noble, an outspoken critic of distance education. The committee’s decision comes nine months after administrators first blocked the appointment, prompting two investigations into whether the scholar was being blackballed for his anti-technology views.
Texas — Adm. Bobby Inman, a University of Texas professor and former director of the National Security Agency and deputy director of the CIA, is putting his knowledge to use in the war against terrorism. Inman, the Lyndon B. Johnson Centennial Chair in National Policy, was recently appointed the head of Texas Attorney General John […]
To Air Nationally on PBS Stations in March, 2002 (San Francisco, CA) Their stage antics were sassy, aggressive, almost raunchy. Their vocal styles featured distinctly “unladylike” growls, hiccups and moans. Their lyrics spoke of parties and hot rods, teen love and teen angst. They played everywhere from country fairs to honky-tonks to rock shows. They […]
It would be first online charter school in New York; not all would welcome it.
With state governments from Maine to California facing severe budget shortfalls, legislators and state education officials are targeting school technology programs for possible budget cuts.
When she finishes her bachelor’s degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Lisa Paladino plans to walk down the aisle with her classmates. It will be her first time on campus. In fact, it will be her first time in Wisconsin.