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Web sites aren’t about throwing some text and pictures onto a page anymore. Colleges, catching on to the evolving online habits of their prospective students, are starting to wise up — and that often means making their online presence more appealing to Facebook-surfing high schoolers.Read the Full Article
Though legislation is unlikely this year, education groups say they haven’t given up the fight to keep network owners from prioritizing web traffic according to payment Read the Full Article
Chances are you have at least second-hand knowledge about Second Life, a virtual-reality world created by Linden Lab, in which avatars (digital characters) lease “islands” for real-life purposes — to sell products, conduct classes, do research, hold conferences, and even recruit for admissions.Read the Full Article
From the moment Kim Vega wakes up, she is thinking about or using technology. An associate professor since 1996, she quickly checks e-mail at home this morning on her university laptop to see if her department has confirmed the starting time of the monthly department meeting, if there are any frantic messages from students about […]
Colleges and universities across the nation have realized that technology is an absolute when considering how courses on their campuses will be delivered–either face to face sessions, through distance learning sessions, or in mixed formats.Read the Full Article
A startup hopes to compete with Google Earth by building a more natural world.Read the Full Article
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – As a seventh-grader, Kelsey-Anne Hizer was getting mostly D’s and F’s and felt the teachers at her Ocala middle school were not giving her the help she needed.Read the Full Article
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – As a seventh-grader, Kelsey-Anne Hizer was getting mostly D’s and F’s and felt the teachers at her Ocala middle school were not giving her the help she needed.Read the Full Article
The New York Times on Thursday announced a major push into higher education — with new efforts to provide distance education, course content and social networking. A number of colleges are already either committed to using the new technologies or are in negotiations to start doing so, evidence of the strong power of the Times […]
nternet safety expert Linda Criddle recommends schools, students, and parents do a back-to-school safety checkup of their school’s Web site to ensure that it is not making too much personal information publicly available. Criddle has created Guidelines for Safer School Web Sites to help schools cope with the new realities of our information society. News […]