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Several state education departments and school districts are signing up for online Advanced Placement courses provided by Apex Learning Inc. as a first step to creating virtual high schools with an array of course offerings.
New Jersey recently unveiled a statewide interactive distance-learning system that enables students and teachers to take classes or interact with peers without having to pay long-distance telephone rates.
HERSHEY, PA–Recently physicians at Penn State College of Medicine instituted a crisis resource management training program using a human patient simulator. Now they have also introduced a way to improve the efficiency of the simulation program through distance education.
Disney Institute, Discover Magazine and PBS The Business & Technology Network have collaborated to bring together nationally recognized visionaries, hands-on researchers, and technology provocateurs to lead you through an examination of “what’s next?” In a roundtable discussion format, the panelists cut through the hype and share informed insights on how technology might reshape the way […]
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Oct 18, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Red Hat(R), Inc. (Nasdaq:RHAT), a leading provider of open source solutions for developing, deploying and managing Internet infrastructure, today announced an initiative with North Carolina State University, to standardize their College of Engineering academic computing environment (Eos) on open source technologies. The initial deployment will […]
Volume 12 (2001): Part II of the Special Issue on Analysing Educational Dialogue Interaction (editor: Rachel Pilkington) Rourke, L., Anderson, T., Garrison, R. and Archer, W. (2001). Methodological issues in the content analysis of computer conference transcripts, 12, in press. Person, N.K., Graesser, A.C., Kreuz, R.J., Pomeroy, V. and the Tutoring Research Group. (2001). Simulating […]
Massachusetts will move ahead with a plan requiring all public-college students to own laptop computers as soon as three years from now, the state’s Board of Higher Education decided unanimously on Tuesday. But a way of paying for the plan remains to be worked out.
The overwhelming majority of Americans say schools should install filters to block students from accessing pornography and hate speech, according to a new national survey commissioned by the Digital Media Forum.
E2000 Attracts Record Conference Attendance New EDUCAUSE Board Members Elected Campus Computing Survey Conducted
Falling Through the Net: Toward Digital Inclusion is the fourth in the series on Internet access and use in America. The report also includes first-time information on the spread of high-speed Internet access and Internet use by people with disabilities.