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In the auditorium once reserved as a studio for Crossfire, CNN’s now-defunct political smackdown showcase, a collection of scholars and copyright specialists gathered at George Washington University on Monday to explore legal issues too complex for a 10-second sound bite.Read the Full Article
State Rep. Mark Gottlieb, R-Port Washington, said his objective is to ensure the state is fiscally responsible when it comes to both economic and social issues.Read the Full Article
Nearly 14,500 students were enrolled in some type of distance education course in the public university system last year, the South Dakota Board of Regents learned today. Distance education students in the system have increased by 43 percent since 2004.Read the Full Article
Video conferencing systems provider Polycom Inc. has launched “Polycom Collaborations Around the Planet,†a global social network and directory that helps educators connect with their peers. Read the Full Article
The growing popularity of e-learning may pose one of the greatest challenges currently facing traditional educational institutions. The questions often asked are how, rather than whether, to embrace this new form of instructional delivery and how to create an appropriate learning environment for the learners.Read the Full Article
Recognizing the pedagogical value of gaming, academics along with game designers and educational content developers have begun producing resources to improve educational game design and make instructional games more accessible to teachers wanting to incorporate them into their classes. However, the rapid growth of such resources has made it difficult for educators and other interested […]
I applaud the Times Union’s Dec. 2 editorial on the value of an online college education. The point of the editorial was, it seems to me, that establishing universally accepted criteria for evaluating the various online degree programs would greatly assist in debunking the myth that “a degree earned in the virtual world is inferior […]
New secondary-school web site contains OpenCourseWare resources for teaching STEM disciplinesRead the Full Article
At an event hosted by President Hockfield this afternoon, the MIT community will celebrate a major milestone for the Institute’s open publication of course content, OpenCourseWare (OCW). The event marks the publication of core teaching materials–including syllabi, lecture notes, assignments and exams–from virtually all MIT courses, 1,800 in total. The site includes voluntary contributions from […]
The Internet search engine Technorati.com currently tracks more than 112 million blogs, while Stanford’s new blog directory lists just 60 to 70 of them — from the student-driven Unofficial Stanford Blog to that of Law School Professor Larry Lessig, who was blogging long before it was a blip on the world’s collective computer screen.Read the […]