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Download Report: Fostering Learning in the Networked World: The Cyberlearning Opportunity and Challenge, A 21st Century Agenda for the National Science Foundation

The National Science Foundation defines “cyberlearning” as “the use of networked computing and communications technologies to support learning.” The report of the NSF Task Force on Cyberlearning, Fostering Learning in the Networked World: The Cyberlearning Opportunity and Challenge, A 21st Century Agenda for the National Science Foundation, identifies cyberlearning as having “…the potential to transform […]

Online Learning, Upscale (and Scaled Up)

John Katzman has never aimed low. The first company he founded, the Princeton Review, went head on at the standardized testing industry and its assertion that the SAT and other exams couldn’t be “coached.” Hundreds of thousands of students (and hundreds of millions of dollars) later, Katzman and Princeton Review have proved otherwise.Read the Full […]

Penn State initiative examines academic uses of Sony Readers

University Park, Pa. — This fall, Penn State University Libraries and the English Department will begin a yearlong pilot project with student groups using the Sony Reader Digital Book, a portable electronic reading device that can hold books, audio files and other downloaded materials.Read the Full Article

Online classes taking off at YVCC and Central

Jim Kieffer decided to take online classes through Yakima Valley Community College because of the flexibility it provides his schedule.Read the Full Article

Opening Search to Semantic Upstarts

Even if you have a great idea for a new search engine, it’s far from easy to get it off the ground. For one thing, the best engineering talent resides at big-name companies. Even more significantly, according to some estimates, it costs hundreds of millions of dollars to buy and maintain the servers needed to […]

Google to Digitize Newspaper Archives

SAN FRANCISCO — Google has begun scanning microfilm from some newspapers’ historic archives to make them searchable online, first through Google News and eventually on the papers’ own Web sites, the company said Monday.Read the Full Article

aking Online Conversations to the Next Level, coComment Unveils V3.0 with Major New Design, Enhanced Features and Retaggr Partnership

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) September 11, 2008 — Taking online conversations to the next level, coComment (www.cocomment.com) today unveiled both a major new version that makes it easier, faster, and more fun for users to track their conversations on any site or blog and a new partnership with retaggr.com to extend and enhance user profiles. […]

Blogger Beware

Faster than you can say “Larry Summers,” James Otteson was gone from Yeshiva University.Read the Full Article

Google Chrome ignites browser speed race

Analysis – You may have decided against a switch to Chrome (at least market share data indicates that Chrome is losing share quickly again), but there is a good chance you won’t get rid of the browser entirely. We guess you may even launch it from time to time, especially when IE or Firefox get […]

Who wants to be a teacher? A whole lot of people, a new survey finds.

If you’ve ever thought about ditching your current job to become a teacher, you’ve got plenty of company. Forty-two percent of college-educated 24- to 60-year-olds would consider teaching as a career, according to a survey out Wednesday from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation in Princeton, N.J.Read the Full Article

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