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When Alicia Bata needs quick results from a quiz in her Spanish class, she has her students pass their work to classmates and then goes over the answers with them. In a few minutes, she knows who understood the lesson and who did not.
In the face of an economic downturn, many business managers will push back development requests that lack a clearly defined business case. Unfortunately, not all HR and training professionals know where to begin to create one. Here’s some help.
“Each year, the Independent Study Program enrolls more than 18,000 students in more than 60 countries and in all 50 United States,” says SCS Dean Jeremy Dunning. “With these new online courses, we are increasing the number of top-quality educational opportunities that we make available to the 60 percent of U.S. population with Internet access, […]
The UW-Madison Division of Information Technology helped bring Chicago blues harp player and educator Billy Branch to professor Ron Radano’s “Blues Legacies” class via Internet videoconferencing. The event linked Luther’s Blues, a music club in Madison, to the USITE/Crerar Computing Cluster & CyberCafe at the University of Chicago.
NSU has been approved for at least $365,000 in Title III federal grant money. The funds come from the Higher Education Act’s Strengthening Institutions Program and will be used to improve science laboratories and equipment. ‘This is a good run for us,’ said NSU President John Hilpert.
IBM has completed its $1 billion acquisition of the database assets of Informix Corp. — doubling the size of IBM’s distributed database business.
The Commonwealth of Learning is an intergovernmental organisation created by Commonwealth Heads of Government to encourage the development and sharing of open learning/distance education knowledge, resources and technologies. COL is helping developing nations improve access to quality education and training.
Section 508 requires that Federal agencies’ electronic and information technology is accessible to people with disabilities. The Federal Information Technology Accessibility Initiative is a Federal government interagency effort to offer information and technical assistance to assist in the successful implementation of Section 508.
Principal Credits Online Assessment Program With Gains in Student Achievement