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Testimony submitted by Chair, Board of Directors, Carol Thomas, ChairNational Education Knowledge Industry Association to U.S. House of Representatives

This testimony is submitted to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies by Carol Thomas as the 2006 Chair of the Board of Directors for the National Education Knowledge Industry Association (NEKIA) and the Executive Director of the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL). Read the Full Story

Digital Divide Closing as Blacks Turn to Internet

Blacks and other members of minorities of various ages are merging onto the digital information highway as never before. Read the Full Story

weblogg-ed

Welcome to Weblogg-ed, maintained by me, Will Richardson, Supervisor of Instructional Technology and Communications at Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington, NJ and “Learner in Chief” at Connective Learning. I’m also the author of the recently released Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms published by Corwin Press. This site is […]

Memos from Web 2.0 World

Dispatches from two new kids on the Web 2.0 block, and three more established Internet companies.Read the Full Story

Oxford online learning project folds

An e-learning venture by Oxford University, with Yale and Stanford in the US, has folded after failing to attract enough students.Read the Full Story

Digital Game-Based Learning: Not Just the Digital Natives Who Are Restless

Richard Van Eck is Associate Professor at the University of North Dakota, where he has been the graduate director of the Instructional Design & Technology graduate program since 2004. He began his study of games with his dissertation in 1999 and has taught a graduate course in games and learning every year since 2001. Comments […]

RVC offers thousands of new online courses

ROCKFORD â€” Rock Valley College is offering thousands of new online courses through its partnership with The eLearning Center. Read the Full Story

Freedom to Learn, Part 1â€”Hale to the Program

For the past several years, something quite extraordinary has been happening in Michiganâ€™s middle schools: Almost 21,000 students have participated in the stateâ€™s Freedom to Learn (FTL) program, in which each student has access to educational technology such as Hewlett-Packard laptops and software such as Encarta Encyclopedia and Discourse. And 1,193 teachers in 188 buildings […]

Science.gov 3.0

Science.gov 3.0 takes relevancy ranked search to a higher level of precision. Launched in November 2005, Version 3.0 allows more refined search queries of federal science databases. Science.gov 3.0 deploys a sophisticated method for ranking science queries by using a complex system of metadata elements, when available, including information within title, author, date, abstract and/or […]

MOE to recognize degrees earned via online education

In a move likely to appeal to workers wishing to pursue further education, the Ministry of Education yesterday announced that it would recognize master’s degrees obtained through online studying.Read the Full Story