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Community college enrollment growth is increasingly coming from online students, leading many institutions to create extensive online student service operations. Many of those institutions are also considering a shift in their course management systems — just as Blackboard’s purchase of WebCT would seem to have solidified its dominant position in that market.Read the Full Article
Starting this fall, all students at Northwest State Community College, in Archbold, Ohio, will be required to take at least one online course to graduate.Read the Full Article
AbstractWith a growing number of courses offered online and degrees offered through the Internet, there is a considerable interest in online education, particularly as it relates to the quality of online instruction. The major concerns are centering on the following questions: What will be the new role for instructors in online education? How will students’ […]
It is widely accepted that employees in small businesses suffer from a lack of knowledge and skills. This lack of skills means that small companies will miss out on new business opportunities. This is even more evident with respect to the adoption of Internet marketing in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Read the Full Article
Institutions of higher education are constantly examining new ways of using technology to teach students. Just as importantly, those institutions are also finding new ways to use technology and the Internet to keep and develop connections with alumni and parents. What new opportunities does this technology offer, how can it be used effectively, and what […]
Handwritten notes, meeting for coffee, eye contact, a handshake, a smile—are these social practices of yesteryear, soon to be replaced by the “wall posts” and “pokes” of today’s social networking technologies? Although advances in social networking technologies allow for new and perhaps more efficient means of learning and communicating,Read the Full Article
Community college enrollment growth is increasingly coming from online students, leading many institutions to create extensive online student service operations. Many of those institutions are also considering a shift in their course management systems — just as Blackboard’s purchase of WebCT would seem to have solidified its dominant position in that marketRead the Full Article
Introduction:Information literacy (IL), according to the Association of College and Research Libraries, is “the set of skills needed to find, retrieve, analyze, and use information.†In the explosion of information output and information sources known as the Information Age, it has become increasingly clear that students cannot learn everything they need to know in their […]
The inventor of the World Wide Web explains how the Semantic Web works and how it will transform how we use and understand data.Read the Full Article
As the Internet democratizes publishing and companies build databases containing other people’s work, similar court challenges may increase. Read the Full Article