University nixes web access during class
University of Chicago Law School officials have a simple message for their students: less web surfing, more listening.Read the Full Article
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Distance learning expanding in Department of Defense
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Every seven seconds, someone within the Defense Department completes an online training course through a program that’s become the gold standard for delivering education and training anywhere, any time.Read the Full Article
Students protest cuts of distance learning
Bringing song, dance and a burst of color to the state Capitol, hundreds of students, teachers and parents rallied Tuesday, urging Gov. Janet Napolitano and lawmakers to spare their distance-learning schools from budget cuts.Read the Full Article
Making Wikis Work for Scholars
Even if they won’t admit it, students are using Wikipedia to kick off their research and fill the gaps in their class notes … right now. It might not show up in the bibliography, but the free, open source online resource has long since become the starting point for settling factual disputes, brainstorming paper ideas […]
7 Things You Should Know About Ning
Ning is an online service that allows users to create their own social networks and join and participate in other networks. No technical skill is required to set up a social network, and there are no limits to the number of networks a user can join. Users of Ning social networks have access to functionality […]
Mobile Learning in Higher Education
The term “Nomadic” has been used to describe the current college students’ culture of wireless and mobile connectedness in the sense that they are not “rooted” but incredibility flexible and fluid when it comes to their social connections and their virtual life culture. This refers not only to their uses of social networking tools but […]
Podcast –Moving to Mobile: Exploratory Services and Applications in Libraries
This 14 minute podcast features an interview with Lisa Hinchliffe, Head of the Undergraduate Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It was recorded at the CNI 2008 Spring Task Force Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hinchliffe was co-presenter for a session entitled, “Moving to Mobile: Exploratory Services and Applications in Libraries”.Cell phones and other […]
Informal Style of Electronic Messages Is Showing Up in Schoolwork, Study Finds
As e-mail messages, text messages and social network postings become nearly ubiquitous in the lives of teenagers, the informality of electronic communications is seeping into their schoolwork, a new study says.Read the Full Article
USDLA Recognizes Western Governors University with Two Major Distance Learning Awards
SALT LAKE CITY — The United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) has presented 2008 International Distance Learning Awards in two categories to Western Governors University (www.wgu.edu) and its executive director of the WGU Teachers College, Dr. Janet Schnitz. The awards were presented April 22nd in conjunction with the 2008 National Conference in St. Louis, Missouri. […]
The (Yes) Low Cost of Higher Ed
ON Oct. 2, 2003, board members at the University of Virginia filed into the Upper East Oval Room of the Rotunda, the centerpiece of Thomas Jefferson’s campus design, for one of their regular meetings. As usual, they were joined by the university’s top administrators. Just before the meeting began, a member of U.Va.’s public affairs […]