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Supreme Court justices revisited their school days Tuesday, talking of gold stars and misbehavior check marks, as the court explored whether letting one student grade another’s paper in class violates federal privacy law.
Director, Management Development Centre International, Mike Okereke has expressed satisfaction over the on-line distance learning programme of the University of South Africa (UNISA) that was launched in Lagos yesterday.
From petroleum engineers in Kuwait to school teachers in West Texas, professionals are using communication technology to get instruction from a distance. By connecting with institutions such as Texas A&M University, professionals are adding to their body of knowledge to become more appealing to employers.
Oregon State University has embarked on a major redesign of its academic programs and support services, and the campus community got its first look on Thursday at the conceptual framework that will guide the planning process over the next few months.
Tracy Futhey, vice provost and chief information officer at Carnegie Mellon University since 1999, has been selected to be vice president for information technology at Duke University, Executive Vice President Tallman Trask III announced Thursday.
The Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University was named one of the 20 “tech-savviest” business schools in the December 2001 issue of Business 2.0 magazine.
Vanderbilt is known for attracting the brightest students from top high schools across the country. However, amongst the students who were among the finest in their class is a small group of equally sharp students who may have never set foot in a traditional classroom. Perhaps to the surprise of many, a handful of home-schooled […]
“Songs of Sorrow, Songs of Hope”, an innovative performance melding music, dance and multimedia commemorating the September 11 tragedy, will be conducted today, November 29, at 9:00 p.m. EST jointly and in real-time at New York University and the University of California, Irvine. This transcontinental performance is made possible by VBrick Systems’ television-quality video-over-IP system […]
Excite@Home (news/quote), the bankrupt provider of high-speed Internet access, cut off Internet service to 850,000 AT&T (news/quote) customers yesterday after AT&T refused to meet its demands — said to be for more than $100 million — to continue the service.
This weekend marks the 10th anniversary of Apple’s QuickTime technology. On December 2, 1991 the original QuickTime team finished work on QuickTime 1.0, which was released to the public at Macworld San Francisco one month later.