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With the Internet’s quick transformation from elite and obscure to the essential and commonplace, the University of Virginia plans to join an online consortium comprised of a network of 18 universities worldwide. The endeavor is called Universitas 21.
University of South Dakota Students Get a Lesson in Beaming
After a two-month investigation, an Iowa State University graduate student was arrested for electronic eavesdropping, Department of Public Safety officials said.
The American Federation of Teachers is releasing a report today warning that quality could suffer as colleges and universities create a business culture within which to develop distance-education programs.
Hewlett-Packard (news/quote) will announce today that it is acquiring Compaq Computer (news/quote) for $25 billion in stock in a bold move to grow as the computer business struggles with shrinking sales, executives close to the negotiations said last night.
Kids may know more about computers than do their teachers and administrators, but a new program associated with the Education School could change that.
Classroom Connect, Inc., a pioneer and leading provider of professional and classroom learning resources that foster successful use of the Internet in K-12 education, announced today that it has agreed to be acquired by Harcourt Education Inc., of Orlando, FL, one of the nation’s most prominent and diverse K-12 educational publishing entities. Harcourt is a […]
Brad Hughes, junior in LAS at the University of Illinois, gets red in the face and begins to rant when he talks about how much he spends on textbooks.
Since the dawn of the Internet age, boosters have predicted the end of leafy college campuses as schools go virtual. The miracle of the Internet was supposed to let great teachers reach any student, any time, anywhere. People all over the world would get the equivalent of a Harvard degree through a computer and a […]
In December, a group of pioneering students from the University of Florida in Gainsville will receive Masters of Business Administration degrees. They will be the first class at the university to complete a two-year MBA program conducted entirely over the Internet.