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When he arrived to teach his first class on “Global Conflict” last week, Mark Juergensmeyer found himself stepping around students who were spilling onto the stairs and stage of his lecture hall – while other hopefuls waited in a line snaking out the door.
Some 5,000 Open University students across the North are getting the chance to pioneer a scheme that will open up computer and Internet access to tens of thousands of their colleagues.
Internet2 members who are developing high-performance networking applications will use the technology themselves to conduct their national meeting.
Key IMS Content Packaging Capability Expanded And Included In SCORM
The enormous popularity among students of multimedia sharing programs has noticeably slowed the Internet in residence halls this year. Programs such as Kazaa, AudioGalaxy and Gnutella have had such an impact on the speed of Internet usage that Indiana University Information Technology Services has been forced to implement several changes including a temporary “dynamic rate […]
…first annual state-of-the-industry report looks at where e-learning has been — and where it’s going.
For all the human traffic that the Web attracts, most sites remain fairly solitary destinations. People shop by themselves, retrieve information alone and post messages that they hope others will eventually notice. But some sites are looking for ways to enable visitors not only to interact but even to collaborate to change the sites themselves.
Master teacher Kay Toliver will lead a new series of Futures Channel Institutes, designed to help teachers develop effective hands-on lessons for mathematics instruction.
The first cyberstudents the Monte Vista School District took in had been kicked out of school and wore radio-transmitter ankle bracelets so the police could track them. Most were in Denver, about 150 miles and a world away from the tiny southern Colorado school district of 1,400 students near the Continental Divide. Officials in the […]
Princeton, NJ — Western Governors University (WGU), an online, competency-based university, has selected The Chauncey Group International® to develop additional assessment tests for WGU’s general education requirements in the area of quantitative literacy and in the area of language and communication. Under the partnership, The Chauncey Group®, a subsidiary of Educational Testing Service® (ETS®) will […]