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Starting next January, the New Hampshire Virtual Learning Academy will launch live and e-mail based classes for students looking to accelerate their traditional coursework, take Advanced Placement courses or even study for their SATs. The virtual charter school will be funded by a $500,000 start-up grant, the New Hampshire Education Trust and donations …Read the […]
Starting next January, the New Hampshire Virtual Learning Academy will launch live and e-mail based classes for students looking to accelerate their traditional coursework, take Advanced Placement courses or even study for their SATs. The virtual charter school will be funded by a $500,000 start-up grant, the New Hampshire Education Trust and donations …Read the […]
The University of Washington Libraries has been building its Digital Collections since 1996, when the Libraries began digitizing materials in Special Collections. Materials in the Digital Collections are diverse and reflect the strength of the UW Libraries collections including materials about Native Americans, people and places of the Pacific Northwest as well as Napoleonic era […]
Earlier this week, Facebook announced the fbFund, which will provide grants to companies and individuals interested in building applications for the social-networking website. (See “Facebook Funds Developers.”) The move seems intended to encourage programmers to make applications that are more sophisticated than the bulk of what’s already been created by third-party developers. Some companies could […]
Abstract The paper addresses the question of how to design for learning taking place on mobile and wireless devices. Read the Full Article
Researchers at Stanford and at universities in Africa and Latin America are pushing the boundaries of distance learning to develop new collaborative models that will prepare students to work in an increasingly borderless world.Read the Full Article
The successful development of mobile learning is dependent on human factors in the use of new mobile and wireless technologies. The majority of mobile learning activity continues to take place on devices that were not designed with educational applications in mind, and usability issues are often reported. The paper reflects on progress in approaches to […]
Lawmakers’ proposal for renewing Title II of NCLB calls for teacher training and student literacy in technology, among other measures Read the Full Article
A shortage of physicians in rural areas isn’t a problem unique to Canada, but the highly sophisticated technology solution that the University of British Columbia has set up to solve it may well be.Read the Full Article