CPB To Provide Emergency Grants In Devastated Hurricane Areas
Financial assistance to help restore delivery of public broadcasting servicesRead the Full Story
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UMassOnline Starts Fall Semester with Eight New Online Programs
Meeting Demand for Programs in: Gerontology, Software Design, Teaching English as a Second Language, Autism, Club Management, and Computer NetworksRead the Full Story
Impact of Paper-and-Pencil, Online Testing Is Compared
How students perform on computer-delivered tests depends, in part, on how familiar they are with the technology, concludes a set of studies conducted by the Princeton, N.J.-based Educational Testing Service.Read the Full Story
Homework Online: Former Maine governor champions free Internet for low-income students
By the time Angus S. King Jr. left the governor’s office in 2003, he made sure the state was giving every 7th and 8th grader in Maine’s public schools a laptop to use in school.Read the Full Story
Questionmark Perception Has Updated WebCT Connector
Questionmark has announced that its WebCT Campus Edition 4.1 Connector is now available for use with Questionmarkâ„¢ Perceptionâ„¢ Version 4. The connector integrates Questionmark Perception with WebCT’s Campus Editionâ„¢ 4.1 e-learning system, enabling educators to benefit from Perception’s assessment management capabilities.Using a “PowerLink†created by the Questionmark WebCT Connector, instructors can incorporate assessments, designed in […]
A Baby Step Toward Wi-Fi Photos
EVERY now and then, someone combines two technologies into a single new product, and the result is a triumphant new category that changes the industry. Clock + radio. Cellphone + camera. Music player + hard drive.Read the Full Story
Wireless raises security concern
Two or three years ago, if a laptop computer was stolen on a college campus, the only concern was how to replace an expensive item. Today, the first concern is “What sensitive data might have been stolen?”Read the Full Story
Bridging the Perspectives and Developmental Needs of All Participants in Curriculum-Based Telementoring Programs
Telementoring, also referred to as e-mentoring or online mentoring, has been carried out in a wide range of K-12 environments and continues to grow in popularity. Through a review of several studies, we argue that the potential for telementoring to support deeper and more authentic school learning will not be fully realized unless researchers pay […]
Why States Shouldn’t Accredit
In my work as Oregon’s college evaluator, I am often asked why state approval is not “as good as accreditation†or “equivalent to accreditation.â€Read the Full Story
The Future of Networking in Higher Education
Networking’s history has been breathtaking. The 1980s promise of information “anytime and anywhere” has been achieved and surpassed. Siebel Systems’ tag line updates this promise succinctly: the network provides “what you need, when you need it.” Where the computer has indeed evolved into a sophisticated tool to compute and to store and edit files that […]