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Arizona’s universities will deliver more than 115,000 credit hours to students via the internet this year.The growing demand for distance-learning services has the Arizona Board of Regents expanding online course offerings at the three state universities.Read the Full Story
In today’s fast-paced environment, it’s difficult to find the time or the inclination to participate in structured training. From the Army command perspective, in many cases, it is neither fiscally responsible nor mission compatible to send people from their duty stations to complete required training.Read the Full Story
The notion of “information technology” (IT) as a separate field of study is undergoing a radical shift at some of the nation’s foremost colleges and universities–and it is this shift that drew more than 250 deans, faculty members, and graduate students to Pennsylvania State University’s University Park campus for a first-of-its-kind conference last week.Read the […]
countless debates and left countless professors disgruntled, one position has remained relatively stable: in the age of the Internet and daily revolutions in communication technology, our education should be preparing us to be global citizens.Read the Full Story
Online learning seems a logical next step in this age of all things digital, but are employers ready for this new kind of job candidate?Read the Full Story
Open Source pioneer Tim O’Reilly noticed the free software didn’t come with free printed manuals and so a publishing empire was born.Read the Full Story
Yahoo launched on Monday a podcast service that offers access to much of the streaming audio on the Web and features user reviews and other information about the programming.Read the Full Story
AbstractUsing the experience of the University of Illinois at Springfield ‘s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the as a foundation for discussion, this paper addresses the provision of student support services to distant students within the context of development and expansion. Specific issues for consideration include: integrating student support functions with institutional technology […]
Arizona’s universities will deliver more than 115,000 credit hours to students via the internet this year.The growing demand for distance-learning services has the Arizona Board of Regents expanding online course offerings at the three state universities.Read the Full Story
OCCASIONALLY, academic John Carmichael has been forced to take peculiar measures to record what he calls “fireside chats” for his off-campus students.Once he recorded a chat from under a bed. It may not have been the most comfortable position but it helped to drown out the noise of excited six-year-olds at a birthday party in […]