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CDW-G’s third annual survey of technology in primary and secondary education, the 2005 Teachers Talk Tech survey – conducted by Quality Education Data (QED), a subsidiary of Scholastic, Inc. – sampled 1,000 randomly selected K-12 public school teachers throughout the nation in March and April 2005.Read the Full Story
ATLANTA, Sept. 16 /PRNewswire/ — The Sloan Consortium, an international association of colleges and universities committed to quality online education, is offering students whose studies have been interrupted by Hurricane Katrina an opportunity to continue their education tuition-free.Read the Full Story
Brenau University is the only college in Georgia set to participate in a nationwide effort to provide online education for students displaced by Hurricane Katrina.Read the Full Story
A little more than two weeks ago, many of us watched in alarm as the floodwalls in New Orleans breached and it became apparent that Katrina was bringing hurricane disaster on a new scale – especially on a new scale for colleges and universities. Never before had so many institutions been so seriously impacted by […]
A Senate committee last week passed a major update to the law governing the nation’s higher-education institutions, providing funding for–and putting the onus on–colleges and universities to better prepare students for success in the global economy.Read the Full Story
The Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) of Karnataka,has completed one year of disseminating satellite-based distance education programme for engineering students in the State powered by ISRO’s EDUSAT.Read the Full Story
ST. JOHN’S, Sept. 15 /CNW Telbec/ – Access to broadband for thousands of Newfoundland and Labrador residents is closer to reality today, thanks to a commitment between the Government of Canada, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, and private-sector partner, Persona Communications Corp.Read the Full Story
University Outsources Hardware, Software and Helpdesk Activities, Focusing on Core Teaching and Learning Mission Read the Full Story
AbstractUsing Wittgenstein’s (1953, 1969) language game framework, we analyze the evolution of an online discussion forum of information systems professionals in India. Three major dimensions of the forum’s language game are documented: roles, social identity, and linguistic style. Our analysis shows how rules of linguistic interaction emerge around these three dimensions and help to shape […]
IntroductionIn the spring of 2005, the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) surveyed its academic member institutions to examine the current state of institutional repositories (IRs) in the US. This effort was coordinated with the work CNI performed in compiling information for the United States country report in preparation for an international conference titled “Making the […]