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Broadband Internet access via TV cables could reach 100 megabits per second as early as next year–50 times faster than the average broadband speeds now offered to cable TV homes, a Finnish company said Wednesday.Read the Full Story
Introduction. The aim of this article is to look at how attitudes towards the Internet technology differ between boys and girls, and how this affects their critical approach when seeking information.Read the Full Story
Athabasca University (AU) is the first Canadian university to be awarded accreditation by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE). The Commission is one of six regional organizations in the U.S. that accredits universities.Read the Full Story
Highly Qualified Teachers: Louisiana Louisiana receives national recognition for its flexible online professional development program that helps improve the quality of classroom teachers statewide.Read the Full Story
Live Online Speakers Include:Kathy Bushkin, COO, United Nations FoundationPatrick R. Gaston, President of the Verizon FoundationDon Knezek, CEO of ISTESugata Mitra, Senior Vice-President for R&D at NIIT in rural IndiaDavid Saedi, CEO of CertiportMegan Stewart, Director Global Education, MacromediaPlus an International Economic Development Panel and a Business Roundtable, featuring representatives from Macromedia Worldwide Education; Worldwide […]
Governor Mitch Daniels has proclaimed August 1–5, 2005 as Distance Education Week in the state of Indiana.A kick-off event has been planned at the State House in Indianapolis from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Monday, August 1. More than 300 key educational leaders—as well as state senators, representatives, and officials from state government agencies, […]
Launched March 2005…..open access peer reviewed journal on Open Government and Freedom of Information ISSN 1745-8293Read the Full Story
April 20, 1952National public broadcasting conference was held at Penn State’s Nittany Lion Inn. More than 100 leaders in education, broadcasting and government gathered to envision a noncommercial educational television service.Read the Full Story
AbstractSince the publication of the Seven Principles of Good Practice in 1987 by Chickering and Gamson, distance education has become a major delivery method for higher education. Virtual adjunct faculty have largely carried higher education into the cyber classroom. Adjunct faculty have always been broadly used in higher education, especially in the community college setting. […]
The Making the Virtual Classroom a Reality (MVCR) program would like to announce our early fall course offerings. The MVCR series of online courses are designed to help faculty members acquire skills and knowledge needed to effectively teach online. They were created as part of a greater mission to promote the effective use of networked […]