Special Report: eSchools Work!
May 17, 2007—In spite of what you might have heard or read in the general press lately, the evidence is in, and it’s overwhelming: eSchools work!Read the Full Article
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Standing Up for Open Access
Professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were perplexed: How could a membership organization that gladly accepts and archives their scholarly work turn around and limit transmission of the material?Read the Full Article
Internships moves online, but do students miss out with no office contact?
CHICAGO (MarketWatch) — Last school year, Matthew Hanzelka did an internship with a financial planner, helping develop a monthly e-mail newsletter and taking on special projects while finishing coursework at Texas Tech University in Lubbock.Read the Full Article
Troy University Launches “Virtually Cheat-Proof” Test Monitor
Troy University and Software Secure today announced the launch of the “Securexam Remote Proctor System,” a solution for educators that maintains the integrity of the exam experience in e-learning settings. The Securexam Remote Proctor System ensures testing integrity through a series of four security measures: fingerprints, voice, video and computer desktop “locking” software.Read the Full […]
New Website Promotes Musician Collaboration And Education Through Online Projects And Community
(PRLog.Org) – The Creative Commons Music Collaboration Project, http://ccmcp.info, has just launched a service allowing musicians to collaborate and share their riffs, beats, tracks, and full fledged songs while choosing a creative commons license (www.creativecommons.org/) for their work. This allows other artists to freely mix/edit/expand upon their music in infinitely creative ways.Read the Full Article
Type-consistent Digital Objects
The fundamental element upon which modern Digital Libraries (DLs) are built is that of the digital object [19]. Digital objects can be conceived as compound artifacts that wrap digital material in terms of four elements: its content, its metadata, its relationships with other objects and its behavior. It is often the case that material in […]
Always Connected, But Hard to Reach
Despite students’ connected lifestyle, colleges and universities often fail to reach them with timely and relevant informationRead the Full Article
Benefits of e-Learning Benchmarks: Australian Case Studies
The last decade has seen a significant expansion in e-learning technologies for enhanced access to education and training in Australia. Until 2005, no consistent sets of data were collected to assess the level of uptake and outcomes of e-learning in the VET sector. The Australian Flexible Learning Framework developed a set of twelve indicators to […]
Investing in ICTs in educational institutions in developing countries:
The incorporation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) into the educational curriculum has been promoted as a key step in bridging the digital divide. Despite considerable growth in the numbers of computers acquired by schools in Kenya in recent years and the sacrifices made to finance these, there has been little evaluation of their effectiveness.Read […]
Sound Visualization for the Hearing Impaired
In this paper, we investigate several means of visualizing both ambient and speech sounds and present a fusion of different visualization displays into one program package that would help provide the hearing impaired with a means to an enhanced awareness of their surroundings. The ideas investigated were implemented in software, and the program was evaluated […]