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In a report released today, the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) concludes that an ad hoc education technology system is developing that exacerbates existing disparities and cannot assure a high standard of education for all students.
South Dakota Leads Nation In Most Wired School System; ‘Distance Learning’ Is Part Of The School Of The Future Gates, Jobs, Gingrich, Other Experts on the Classroom of 2025
Palliser Regional Schools and Rubicon International, an international consulting firm based in Portland, Oregon, today announced the launch of a major new technology initiative employing Atlas, a Web-based curriculum management system.
Montreal-based Miranda Media Networks announced today the successful deployment of its award-winning MPEG-2 interactive video platform, the MAC 500, within a comprehensive distance learning solution in Maine that will connect over 170 of the state’s schools, libraries, and technology centers.
Virginia’s State Council of Higher Education on Tuesday endorsed the creation of a distance-learning institution that would let students accumulate college credit by taking online courses from colleges all over the state.
A student lying down in class dressed in plaid flannel pajamas with a pint of Ben & Jerry’s Chunky Monkey Ice Cream might not go over so well with some instructors.
Indiana University at Bloomington has tripled the computational and storage capacity of its IBM RS/6000 SP supercomputer to add computing power that officials say will be needed for the university’s expanding genomics-research program. Genomics scientists use the latest advances in DNA sequencing to understand physiological functions.
THINK of it as computing’s crisis of complexity, revisited. For more than three decades, the big advances in computing have soon brought new headaches. The initial steps ahead are typically in hardware — processors, storage and networks — and the headaches are manifested in software.