Technology: Is That All There Is?
MIT computer science honcho Michael Dertouzos wants technology to do away with the humdrum busy work that consumes our lives. Until then, and only then, will we reap the promise of the technology revolution.
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Teachers Miss Out on Tech Tools
Low attendance didn’t override the number of interesting tools for teachers showcased at the ACM’s conference this weekend. Teachers learned how to run a virus game in classes and integrate complex modeling, handhelds, and laptops to enhance coursework.
Indiana University Art Museum collection can be viewed anytime, from anywhere
Singapore Steven J. Green and his wife Dorothea have graciously loaned the IU Art Museum a selection of masterworks from their private collection. These six rare and important works of art range from sacred and secular paintings by 17th-century Dutch and Flemish masters to a beautiful French Impressionist landscape by Eugene Boudin, a pen and […]
Maestro Online Reinvents Online Learning for The Classroom
NEWTON, Mass. — Although K-12 educators have an abundance of software to teach educational basics, much of it ends up sitting on the shelf because it can’t be customized to deliver teachers’ lesson plans or meet diverse student needs. Maestro Learning Inc., a pioneering e-learning company, today announced the launch of Maestro Online, a subscription-based […]
Building the Digital Bridge in Boston
Boston schools are being driven into the future by strategic partnerships between the public and private sectors. Read about how and why Boston, with a computer-to-student ratio of 1-to-6, has become a model of success in education technology.
Virtual class expands high-school course list
MARIEMONT — Mary Halsall teaches science to 20 high school students, but she has never seen their faces. Mrs. Halsall, a Mariemont High School biology teacher, is one of a growing number of high school instructors in the Tristate opting to design and teach an Internet course for the Virtual High School project.
Intelligent property
Dark rooms with cobwebs and dusty film reels are an unusual laboratory for innovation. But in the backrooms of ScreenSound Australia – our national film and sound archive – a software system has been quietly marketed and sold to clients in Europe and the United States, including one of the world’s most prestigious archives at […]
British Government Opens 1,200 Online Centers, More To Come
In a bid to bridge the digital divide, the British government has drawn together its online resources along with privately operated net services, to launch the UK Online centers.
Online courses costly for universities
(U-WIRE) COLUMBUS, Ohio — Distance learning technology, like the rest of the dot-com industry, is starting to shake out. And according to a recent study of six universities by The Chronicle of Higher Education, distance learning technology is not bringing in great amounts of revenue that administrators once thought it would.
California State University System Calls On Unisys For Major Outsourcing Initiative To Improve Administrative Services
A new agreement between the California State University system (CSU) and Unisys will help the CSU streamline administrative support services for its 370,000 students and provide cost-effective financial and human resources support for more than 41,500 faculty and staff on all 23campuses. CSU and the information technology e-business solutions provider, Unisys, have signed a five-year, […]