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Education World and iUniverse.com Partner to Give Schools The Power to Publish

PRINCETON, N.J. — As a child, did you ever have the dream of publishing a book? Books celebrating ethnic diversity, condemning violence, and championing Mother Nature are on the reading lists of hundreds if not thousands of K-12 schools. In these budding American “think tanks” a new wave of student and teacher created books and […]

Students learn in ‘cyberschool

CARIBOU — Nearly 60 high school students from across Aroostook County are taking a class without seeing a teacher or a classmate. But theyll have regular contact with both through their computer and the World Wide Web

Young people expected to get Internet again at Herrick Library

HOLLAND — It has been two months since Holland West Middle School student Amber Harris has been allowed to get on the Internet at the Herrick District Library.

Michigan State U. may alter copyrighting, patent policies

(U-WIRE) EAST LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State University may soon hold the copyright to scholarly work commissioned or paid for by the university.

Higher Education and the Markeplace

A QUESTION FOR DR. SPANIER: KATHLEEN PAVELKO ON PRIVATIZATION OF HIGHER ED Editor’s Note: Each Beaver Stadium Pictorial this season contains a column in which distinguished individuals pose questions about Penn State to President Graham Spanier. Today’s question is from Kathleen Pavelko, president of WITF, Inc., the public broadcasting and telecommunications center in Harrisburg and […]

San Jose tops for IT jobs, Seattle for wages

SAN JOSE, CALIF., sits atop the list of U.S. cities with the most high-tech employees, whereas Seattle’s softwaremakers seem to be raking in the most dough, according to a new study released Tuesday.

We still need to explore new strategies in the open-source economy

IS IT POSSIBLE to make money in the new open-source economy?

XMLClassroom.com Introduces the Most Comprehensive Web-Based Training for Certification

New Course Developed by XMLSolutions Corporation

Developing World Scientists to Get Internet Boost

LONDON (Reuters) – Researchers in Asia, Africa and eastern Europe could soon have access to the latest scientific information via the Internet thanks to a new pilot project set up by the World Health Organization.

Are computers “virtual parents”?

Parents are spending increasingly less time playing with their children and are instead relying on computers to become “virtual nannies”, a new report has warned.