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PHILADELPHIA — Blackboard found itself playing defense last week when, right before most higher education technologists were set to ship out for Educause 2011, a competitor announced a free and “open” learning management system (LMS) — a technology Blackboard sells for a pretty penny.SOURCE: Inside Higher EducationRead the Full Article
Microsoft today introduced Kinect “playful learning,” an initiative to deliver enriching and entertaining content for children on Kinect for Xbox 360. The company also announced new games and experiences for kids, including interactive television episodes of Sesame Street and National Geographic.SOURCE: MicrosoftRead the Press Release
SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Western Governors University (WGU), www.wgu.edu, has appointed former Winona State University Provost, Dr. Sally Johnstone, as Vice President, Academic Advancement. In this assignment, Dr. Johnstone will have both an external and an internal role. She will serve as academic spokesperson for the university, acting as a liaison […]
Two years ago, Tennessee’s Putnam County school system adopted an online-learning graduation requirement for its high school students. But district officials realized that not all students had high-speed Internet access at home, or even computers, so they came up with a variety of options to allow students to fulfill the requirement.SOURCE: Education Week Read the […]
ROCKFORD — More than 60 high school students in the Rockford School District are taking virtual learning courses this fall, at least half of them enrolled in Advanced Placement classes they would otherwise be without.SOURCE: Rockford Register Star Read the Full Article
In one of her first public appearances as chief executive of Hewlett-Packard this month, Meg Whitman beamed in by videoconference to a meeting of college technology leaders to announce the company’s participation in what colleges are calling a “community cloud”—a pool of high-performance computers that researchers can tap into online, as needed, from any participating […]
AbstractThis article examines distance education (DE) in the context to which is most frequently applied, i.e., higher education, and from the perspective of some of its most important actors, i.e., teachers. This study, of a qualitative nature, was conducted at a public university in Brazil. Data were collected by means of unstructured interviews, observations, and […]
SEATTLE — Amazon.com has taught readers that they do not need bookstores. Now it is encouraging writers to cast aside their publishers. SOURCE: The New York TimesRead the Full Article
Håkon Wium Lie, Opera Software’s CTO and creator of cascading stylesheets, has proposed a new set of CSS tools that transform longer web pages into a more book-like experience, where the reader flips from page to page instead of scrolling down one long screen.SOURCE: WebmonkeyRead the Full Article