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In recent years, new palm-devices have been introduced to the market that have greatly increased the potential for distributed and mobile learning. No longer students and teachers are tethered to communication lines, since these devices are wireless, nor they are hindered by bulky equipment that are not portable.This means that students can fan out to […]
Last month, top UI administrators submitted to UI President B. Joseph White a 54-page report outlining plans to launch Global Campus, the UI’s multimillion-dollar online education initiative. The university already offers online education – about 6,900 students enrolled in online courses in 2005 – but the vision for Global Campus is much more grand. It’s […]
I’m surprised there hasn’t been more uproar about this yet. The ever-brilliant US Patent and Trademark Office has apparently granted Blackboard a patent for…well…pretty much anything remotely related to learning management systems. As I read it, Blackboard basically owns the patent on any sort of groupware at all that is used for teaching purposes. This […]
Welcome to the information page about Blackboard’s patent portfolio.Read the Full Story
Collaboration will allow both distance learning organizations to share resources and better serve USDLA members via publications, expanded news, discounts and much more.Read the Full Story
Digital games have the potential to bring play back to the learning experienceRead the Full Story
The Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education released the next iteration of its report Thursday, which for those of you scoring at home is the third partial draft and the first truly complete one (it contains not only the preamble and summary that were missing from its second draft but, for […]
The New Mexico Learning Network Planning Summit, a chance for New Mexico leaders in higher and public education, government and economic development to come together to plan a new direction for distance learning in the state, takes place Thursday and Friday, Aug. 3 and 4, at the New Mexico State University Albuquerque Center, located at […]
As a retired professor emeritus from Georgia and a resident of Dunedin who has been offering online, Internet-delivered university courses for more than a decade, I was so pleased to read that the American Association of Community Colleges ranked St. Petersburg College in first place as the most “digitally savvy” community college in the country […]
The purpose of this Guide is to provide you with a general roadmap of some of the legal issues specific to podcasting. EFF has produced a very practical and helpful guide for issues related to blogging generally (http://www.eff.org/bloggers/). This Guide is not intended to duplicate efforts by EFF, and in many cases refers you to […]