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William J. Kelly says that one of the main goals of the arts course he teaches every semester at Pennsylvania State University at University Park is to familiarize his students with art they would not normally see. Through the general-education course, which merges on-campus events and Internet discussion, he hopes to move students out of […]
User interfaces are notoriously tricky, but new research projects could reinvent the way we communicate with our computers.
Today you can easily buy a 15-inch LCD monitor from a major vendor for under $400. That’s down from a price average of about $2600 just three years ago. Makes you want one, doesn’t it?
The dog is no longer the prime culprit when homework doesn’t show up on the teacher’s desk on time. Now it’s “the cyber excuse,” as Kirkland, Wash., teacher Jill Berge calls it. “It happens all the time.”
VCampus® Corporation (Nasdaq: VCMP), the leading provider of end-to-end, web-based e-Learning solutions, and United Airlines (NYSE: UAL) are teaming to offer free computer skills courses to the UAL employees who were affected by the company’s reduction in force. Thirty-two courses are being offered on a specially developed online campus to the furloughed United employees and […]
Professors who are fighting to claim copyright for their lectures and other course materials online could be unintentionally chipping away at the notion of academic freedom, says Corynne McSherry, a third-year student at Stanford Law School.
VCampus® Corporation (Nasdaq: VCMP), the leading provider of end-to-end, web-based e-Learning solutions, and United Airlines (NYSE: UAL) are teaming to offer free computer skills courses to the UAL employees who were affected by the company’s reduction in force. Thirty-two courses are being offered on a specially developed online campus to the furloughed United employees and […]
Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives are considering having the government establish a “child-friendly” internet domain, because the international body that governs domain names has refused to create a suffix for child-appropriate content.
E-learning may have started in the office, but it can be just as effective on the manufacturing floor. After all, manufacturing employees frequently need to learn new tasks or take immediate action in response to problems or company changes. And workstations and kiosks on the factory floor are ideal for delivering much of the training […]