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Palm and Microsoft Join to Bring the Palm Experience to Windows Mobile; Verizon Wireless First to Market with New Treo Smartphone

Strategic alliance to accelerate the Smartphone market segment with a new device for mobile professionals and businesses.Read the Full Story

Learning Through Experience: the dialogue necessary to learn with technology

“. . empowering learners to design and produce their own knowledge representations and educational communications can be a powerful learning experience” -Reeves, 1998 .1IntroductionWe propose integrating video technology into course content in a way that allows learning with the technology in addition to learning from it.2; 3 Learning from technology is frequently a component of […]

Distributed Educator: Interview with Colonel Kim A. Bowling, Commander Air Force Institute for Advanced Distributed Learning

Colonel Kim A. Bowling is the commander of the Air Force Institute for Advanced Distributed Learning (AFIADL). Bowling directs the Air Force’s largest educational institution and oversees the development of Air Force Advanced Distributed Learning policy, programs and technology. Following commission through Officer Training School in 1980, Bowling began duties with the Air Force Office […]

Intercultural Internet-Based Learning: Know Your Audience and What They Value

As the internet-based learning (IBL) market becomes increasingly global, understanding differing educational values and cultural expectations could provide an important competitive edge for providers (universities, publishing houses, and corporate training entities). How each of person determines “good” or “quality” instruction is to a large degree founded on what educational values that person holds. These values […]

Webcast tackles IT gender gap

To engage girls in the study of science and technology, educators need to convey the right message about the roles these fields play in society and the skills they require–and they also need to provide more hands-on activities that have some social value.Read the Full Story

IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education WMTE 2005

November 28th – 30th 2005The University of TokushimaJAPANVisit conference website

Arizona universities expand online courses

Arizona’s universities will deliver more than 115,000 credit hours to students via the internet this year.Read the Full Story

Valley districts add cyberschools

SELINSGROVE — Sixteen-year-old Alexandrea Condon starts her weekdays like most high school students. She eats breakfast, showers, dresses and then heads off to school… in her living room.Read the Full Story

Kentucky System First to Use SMARTHINKING Tutors to Suggest Grades

SMARTHINKING Launches “Grade Guidance” for K-Core.Kentucky System First to Use SMARTHINKING tutors to Critique Essays, Suggest GradesWashington, DC (August 16, 2005) – SMARTHINKING, the leading provider of online tutoring and academic support, announced today that the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) K-Core initiative, a statewide online general education curriculum, will be the first […]

From the Lab: Information Technology, Long-Distance Wi-Fi

Results: Researchers in India have developed a communications protocol to increase the coverage area of Wi-Fi mesh networks. In a conventional Wi-Fi network–like the ones that are now common at many urban cafEs and airports–a base station with a wired connection to the Internet exchanges radio signals with users’ portable devices.Read the Full Story