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Mobile technologies are everywhere today — more than 1.5 billion of them, according to a recent report by Strategy Analytics with 10 percent year-over-year adoption expected through 2008. Cell phones, PDAs, iPods and handheld game consoles are just a few examples of the devices that have become common, everyday accessories.Read the Full Article
Laureate Education, Inc. plans to become the latest publicly traded for-profit provider of higher education to enter the potentially friendlier confines of the private markets.Read the Full Article
After months of criticism that its patent policies had the potential to squelch important education projects, Blackboard on Thursday announced a “patent pledge†under which it vowed not to assert its patent rights to sue open source projects or home-grown software used by colleges and universities.Read the Full Article
Paul Shovlin is a graduate student teaching assistant with the Center for Writing Excellence at Ohio University. The other day he was flying above the College Gate on campus and insisting his students call him Hambone.Read the Full Article
Fourth period on a midwinter Thursday, Christmas vacation a fading memory by now, and Lars Brownworth took his accustomed place in front of an American history class at the Stony Brook School here. He had been guiding these seniors through the Gilded Age lately, and for this session he planned to personify the era in […]
The Sloan Consortium’s latest report, (“Making the Grade: Online Education in the United States 2006â€) estimates that 850,000 more students took online courses in fall 2005 than 2004, an increase of almost 40 percent. Although the online teaching continues to grow in popularity, it places greater demands on faculty than traditional courses. The Sloan report […]
As Wikipedia has become more and more popular with students, some professors have become increasingly concerned about the online, reader-produced encyclopedia.Read the Full Article
Washington, D.C. – If high school dropouts of the nation’s class of 2006 had instead earned their diplomas with their classmates, the U.S. economy could have benefited from an additional $309 billion in wages over these students’ lifetimes, according to conservative calculations by the Alliance for Excellent Education in its new brief, The High Cost […]
Governors seek to boost math, science, and technology education in their State of the State addresses Read the Full Article
The EFQM excellence model is a famous quality management tool. We have translated it to be useful in e-learning quality management. EFQM will be used as a framework for self-evaluation. We developed the e-learning stakeholder model. We identified the main criterion and positioned them in the stakeholder model.Read the Full Article