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Colleges and universities possess an exceptional volume and variety of personal information. Given this fact—along with their wide range of activities, the often decentralized nature of their operations, and their growing reliance on technologies that collect and centrally store data—these institutions face significant privacy and security challenges. Unfortunately, to date, most colleges and universities in […]
For Syracuse University students, faculty and staff tired of overflowing MyMail inboxes and limited capabilities, there may soon be hope.Read the Full Story
Constructivist Foundations (CF) is an independent academic peer-reviewed e-journal without commercial interests. Its aim is to promote scientific foundations and applications of constructivist sciences, to weed out pseudoscientific claims and to base constructivist sciences on sound scientific foundations, which do not equal the scientific method with objectivist claims. The journal is concerned with the interdisciplinary […]
The MegaTrend project has decided to apply concrete and measurable indicators of the critical mass required for a European Mega e-learning Provider. This involves the following four dimensions:Read the Full Story
Virtual schooling, and its potential to increase student achievement, was the focus in Plano, Texas, as more than 500 educators from across the nation gathered for the annual Virtual School Symposium Nov. 5-7. The three-day event featured the release of a study detailing a dramatic surge in online enrollment among school-age children–up to a 50-percent […]
Virtual schooling, and its potential to increase student achievement, was the focus in Plano, Texas, as more than 500 educators from across the nation gathered for the annual Virtual School Symposium Nov. 5-7. The three-day event featured the release of a study detailing a dramatic surge in online enrollment among school-age children–up to a 50-percent […]
Abstract: This paper reports the results of an empirical study that investigated the instructional design process of three teams involved in the development of an e-learning unit. The teams declared they were using the same fast-prototyping design and development model, and were composed of the same roles (although with a different number of SMEs). Results […]
Web-based mentoring: what it is, why it’s important, why it’s the next phase of learning for people, and why organizations are flocking toward it.Read the Full Story
Effective knowledge management is key to navigating the sea of information being made available using internet technologies. And participants in the IST project SEKT aim to lay the foundations for that greater effectiveness, by developing three core technologies for the semantic web.Read the Full Story
With the rise of the internet, schools are seeing an epidemic of cut-and-paste plagiarism. But the same technology that’s making plagiarism easy is being used by teachers to catch copycats in the act.Read the Full Story