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Calling much of what passes for online learning “regurgitation … where you spit back what someone tells you,” Dr. Randy Accetta, Magellan University’s director of professional education ( www.magellan.edu), will take his message to the Sixth Annual Continuing Professional Education Conference in San Diego March 19. Accetta will present the keynote speech the second day […]
Blackboard.com – Free Course Creation Similar to the CourseSites channel, this area will enable instructors to create a course Web site using the Blackboard e-Learning platform to supplement classroom instruction or teach an entire course online. The service remains free to instructors and students with enhanced course services available at an annual fee. Students can […]
Linux is a highly capable but curt operating system that does not suffer fools gladly. Likewise, LinuxWorld shows have always been a gathering primarily for the few, the proud, the brave and the extremely nerdy ubergeeks. But this year LinuxWorld will feature tools that will help bring the alternative operating system squarely into the mainstream.
Blackboard.com – Free Course Creation Similar to the CourseSites channel, this area will enable instructors to create a course Web site using the Blackboard e-Learning platform to supplement classroom instruction or teach an entire course online. The service remains free to instructors and students with enhanced course services available at an annual fee. Students can […]
This new issue spotlights ways of helping faculty do more and better evaluations, leading with a report from Cal State Sacramento and then discussing Teaching, Learning, and Technology Roundtables (if your institution doesn’t yet have a Roundtable or you could use some help with yours, check out this article).
Blackboard.com – Free Course Creation Similar to the CourseSites channel, this area will enable instructors to create a course Web site using the Blackboard e-Learning platform to supplement classroom instruction or teach an entire course online. The service remains free to instructors and students with enhanced course services available at an annual fee. Students can […]
The US National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) has just completed Volume 1 of the Comprehensive Assessment of Public Information Dissemination.
Recognizing the need for faculty to have skills in: preparing course materials, developing computer based presentations, and interacting effectively with students using computer based communications utilities, Thomas Edison State College developed a Certificate in Distance Education Program with four seminars on-line and some other seminars in various planning and development stages. We have specific interests […]
This $2 million-per-week effort, supported by 39 national cable networks and over 8,500 local cable companies, provides schools across the U.S. with free cable service and over 540 hours per month of commercial-free educational programming
ITHACA, N.Y. — Since the mid-1990s, the wiring of the U.S. college campus has had a dramatic effect on how students search for information. Much of the research that once was done in libraries now can be done in computer labs or on dorm room PCs. The result is that students increasingly cite popular Internet […]