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Roger Ebert has announced the 12 films that will be screened at his third annual “Roger Ebert’s Overlooked Film Festival,” April 25-29, 2001, at the historic Virginia Theatre in Champaign, Illinois and at the University of Illinois.
The Corporation of Brown University has approved an overall increase in undergraduate charges of 3.6 percent for the 2001-02 academic year, bringing the cost of a year at Brown to $34,750. That figure includes a 3.8-percent increase in tuition, to $26,568.
Leslie Conery, PhD, took over as Interim CEO of International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) effective March 1, 2001. She also will serve as Interim Executive Director of the National Education Computing Association (NECA) while the two organizations conduct a joint search for a permanent CEO to be based in Washington DC.
Minister of Education Kader Asmal’s National Plan for Higher Education, announced this week, was exoected to make a decisive break with the past. But it is difficult to see how the minister’s national plan will lead to the inauguration of institutions of which all South Africans will feel part. For now, they will remain historically […]
Michael G. Moore: The current editorial board of The American Journal of Distance Education has served, with what in this day and age seems almost incredible fidelity, for the full fourteen years of The Journals life. Today I am announcing retirements and new appointments in this critically important part of our enterprise.
Johannesburg, Mar 09, 2001 (Mail and Guardian/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX)– * eliminating duplication of programmes offered by institutions in the same region; * establishing a single distance education provider by merging Unisa, Technikon South Africa and Vista University’s distance education centre; * setting up a national working group that, by the end of […]
The merging of Unisa, Technikon South Africa and Vista’s distance education centre has evoked puzzlement among some. “Where in practice is the overlap that the plan refers to among the programmes the three offer?” asks an educationist.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s communications regulators are a smart bunch, with graduate degrees in law, business and other disciplines. They also are smart enough to know they need help in dealing with the increasingly technical matters before them.
Washington, DC—Abilene, a nationwide Internet2® network, today announced state education networks in Michigan, Missouri, Oregon, Virginia and Washington will establish connectivity under a new policy that allows expanded access to the high-performance educational backbone. Partnerships with Internet2 universities and regional networking organizations will provide institutions such as elementary schools, secondary schools, community colleges, museums and […]
(Washington, DC) The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) today testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Commerce Committee, represented by Jenny House, Vice President for Strategic Relations for Classroom Connect, Inc of Brisbane, CA. The presentation to the Telecommunications and Internet Subcommittee outlined how education technology is improving teaching and learning, and encouraged Congress […]