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The National Endowment for the Humanities is ready to shed the stodgy image of the classical scholar hunched over ancient parchment with a quill and magnifying glass — even its chairman, Bruce Cole, admits that he’s traded in his manual typewriter for a BlackBerry.Read the Full Article
A plan circulating in the state House to give students iPods and other MP3 players has drawn near–universal criticism.Read the Full Article
The world of the Net Generation is one that is mediated by technologies that serve as shapers of identity. Social networking sites, a common technological tool for this generation, are reconfiguring how this generation reads, creates, and interprets texts. By integrating text and tool in a new way, social networking sites are transforming prior customs […]
The movement into online education has raised concerns about the workload demands placed on faculty teaching online classes. Research indicates that faculty report a greater time investment for online classes than for equivalent face-to-face courses; concerns about time investment are compounded with the considerable ambiguity surrounding the perceived availability of faculty teaching in a 24/7 […]
With nothing more than a computer, Internet access and a cruel sense of humor, an Internet vandal edited the Wikipedia article of comedian Sinbad earlier this month, duping the world into thinking the actor had died. It took a while for the confusion to clear when Sinbad told the Associated Press:“Saturday I rose from the […]
Support and advising systems provide a competitive edge for institutions by helping to develop a lasting relationship between eLearner and school.Read the Full Article
Supporters of school technology must make a more explicit connection between technology and teaching, former CoSN board members say Read the Full Article
The September 2006 report A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of U.S. Higher Education, by the commission appointed by U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, identifies many areas of improvement for U.S. higher education and specifies numerous recommendations (totaling more than fifty, according to some counts) for consideration by states, the federal government, institutions, […]
A new metal film could help control terahertz radiation and lead to wireless devices that are thousands of times faster than today’s Wi-Fi.Read the Full Article
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