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Fulton-Montgomery Community College Deploys VBricks to Deliver Campus-Wide Video Feeds

WALLINGFORD, Conn., Nov 14, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) — VBrick Systems, Inc. an innovator in low-cost TV-quality video networking products, said today that Fulton-Montgomery Community College (FMCC), part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system, has deployed 36 VBricks in its network to provide educational and informational programming across its campus. FMCC has also […]

What’s the Best E-Book Reader?

Books — and Palm Pilots — are tough technology for e-book hardware to improve on

Information Literacy Programming in Higher Education

The Association of College & Research Libraries has an active program to address issues that center on information literacy programming in higher education. Information literacy is “the ability to locate, evaluate, and use information to become independent life_long learners” (Note 1). An information literacy program attempts to provide students with educational experiences that develop their […]

One-Stop Website Now Online for All California Universities:

Site Will Provide Advice on Academic Counseling, Financial Aid Information, On-line Applications, and More for Every College in the State

Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education

These standards were reviewed by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Standards Committee and approved by the Board of Directors ACRL on January 18, 2000, at the Midwinter Meeting of the American Library Association in San Antonio, Texas.

Web-Based Lecture Series Brings Insurance

Internationally known actuaries and insurance experts are being welcomed into university classrooms through an inter-active Web-based lecture series developed by a Penn State faculty member.

Compass guides education purchases

School administrators confounded by the array of technology-based educational resources now have a tool to help them organize their purchasing decisions

Can biodiversity be sustained? An online course helps students look for answers

OFFERING THEIR BIODIVERSITY COURSE online lets two Wisconsin instructors ask their students to look at conservation and biodiversity issues in their own communities.

Digital-Library Company Plans to Charge Students a Monthly Fee for Access

A NEW DIGITAL-LIBRARY COMPANY that claims it will “transform how academic research is done” hopes to entice students to pay as much as $360 a year for online access to books and journals.

Kansas State University: K-State’s Bryan Schurle 2000 Kansas Professor of the Year

NOV 14, 2000, M2 Communications – MANHATTAN — Bryan Schurle, professor of agricultural economics and a University Distinguished Teaching Scholar at Kansas State University, has been selected as the 2000 Kansas Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.