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In 2008, the Center for Digital Education conducted a review of state policy and programs to determine the status of online learning policy and practice across the United States. This report is underwritten by Blackboard and Pearson Education and produced with the advice and consultation of the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and […]
Student authentication has become a major necessity for distance education providers as recent legislation requires institutions and programs to offer distance education and have policies to ensure the student who registers is the same student who participates in and completes the program and receives the academic credit.Read the Full Article
Law school was a distant dream when Heather Brown finished her undergraduate degree in business administration at Old Dominion University in 1986. Read the Full Article
SAN FRANCISCO–The cloud was omnipresent at the Web 2.0 Summit as industry executives discussed the migration from the client to millions of virtualized servers as the information pipe. Read the Full Article
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Federal regulators have approved a plan to open up unused, unlicensed portions of the television airwaves known as “white spaces” to deliver wireless broadband service.Read the Full Article
DUBLIN, Ireland, Nov 03, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Research and Markets ( http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/17b2f6/virtual_worlds_and) has announced the addition of the “Virtual Worlds and Web 3.0: Examined, Compared, Analyzed” report to their offering. Read the Full Article
The emergence of the networked information economy is unleashing two powerful forces. On one hand, easy access to high-speed networks is empowering individuals. People can now discover and consume information resources and services globally from their homes. Further, new social computing approaches are inviting people to share in the creation and edification of information on […]
Synchronous Computer-mediated communication (CMC) creates affordable learning conditions to support both meaning-oriented communication and focus-on-form reflection that play an essential role in the development of language competence.Read the Full Article
Information systems researchers that apply critical social perspectives frequently emphasize the potential for information technology to serve as a mechanism for increased rationalization, domination, and control. Such theorists often overlook or discount the liberating aspects of information systems. In this study, we apply the ideal of rational discourse developed by Jürgen Habermas to the phenomenon […]
This study adopted a qualitative case-study approach to examine the attitudes, experiences, and perceptions of undergraduate students who were enrolled in an online, collaborative learning course at a Ghanaian private university. Data sources included surveys, student and instructor journal entries, email records, individual interviews, and Web-server logs. The study found that the students did not […]