Giving Proper Credit To Home-Schooled
With Applications From Nontraditional Students Rising, More Universities Are Revamping Evaluation MethodsRead the Full Article
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Could RateMyProfessors.com Be Right?
What if RateMyProfessors.com — the site that professors love to hate — is more accurate than they think? Or what if officially sanctioned student evaluations of faculty members — which many professors like to contrast with RateMyProfessors.com — are just as dubious as RateMyProfessors?Read the Full Article
Professors add life to courses through Second Life
Ames, Ia. – He’s a stud with a ponytail, his name is Gut, and he’s your professor.Read the Full Article
2 Models for Digitizing Collections
Google’s Library Project, which is in the process of digitizing millions of books at top university libraries around the world, announced a major expansion Wednesday: The 12 universities that make up the Committee on Institutional Cooperation have agreed to let Google digitize up to 10 million of their collective volumes — generally those from the […]
250,000 Americans Urge the FCC: Use the Public Airwaves for the Public Good
As FCC Decides Fate of Valuable Public Airwaves, Americans Demand High-Speed Wireless Internet that Is Open, Accessible and AffordableRead the Full Article
Visible Past: Learning and discovering in real and virtual space and time
AbstractVisible Past proposes a cross platform, scalable environment (Exploratorium) for collaborative social, geographic, and historical education and research. The Exploratorium will be deployed in a variety of settings, from Web to fully immersive virtual reality environments. Educational activities can be formal (classroom teaching) or informal (conducted in a museum or self–directed online learning setting). The […]
Using Students’ Experiences to Derive Quality in an e-Learning System: An Institution’s Perspective
ABSTRACT: Higher education institutions undertake a range of approaches to evaluating and making judgments about the quality of their e-learning provision. This paper begins by exploring benchmarking as one current strategy in common use in universities to identify and implement quality practices: from the use of checklists (for example, of best practices and standards) to […]
Collaboration on ICT in Dutch Higher Education:
n “Thinking Ahead: A Vision of the Role of ICT in Education and Research in the Future, 2007–2010,” the higher education institutions in the Netherlands agreed on future strategy. Under the direction of SURF, the Dutch national organization, a collaborative strategy for the application of information and communications technology (ICT) was formulated. The starting point […]
Distance Educator Tells Court It Has No Fixed Address
The Supreme Court of British Columbia has ordered Vancouver University Worldwide (VUW) to stop granting degrees in the province. The court had upheld a suit by the B.C. provincial government that argued that for profit distance education provider VUW was breaking the province’s Degree Authorization Act by offering degrees without authorization.Read the Full Story