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In a sense, it was. More than a hundred thousand had descended upon Porto Alegre, Brazil, to attend the World Social Forum, a conference intended to offer a progressive alternative to the much smaller, and much more famous, World Economic Forum meeting at Davos, Switzerland (see “Letter from Davos,” April 2005).Read the Full Story
The survey of 56 distance learning master’s revealed online learners should be prepared to pay as little as $5,280 or as much as $67,500. “Shopping around for an online degree is increasingly the best form of college financial aid,†comments GetEducated.com’s CEO and Chief Analyst, Vicky Phillips. Premiering at the number one spot this year […]
Prior to the 1960s, the college student’s role was that of a client, seeking the expertise and knowledge of the faculty, says Dr. Roger L. Geiger, Distinguished Professor of Higher Education. But during the 1960s and 1970s, the situation began to change perceptibly when student activists and certain administrators made significant changes to their college’s […]
Although its official name is still Michigan Virtual University, you’ll be hearing about it mostly as Michigan Virtual High School, serving K-12 students and educators.Read the Full Story
Nicholas Negroponte, chairman and founder of MIT’s Media Lab, is planning to provide several hundred million kids in developing countries their own rugged, internet- and multimedia-capable $100 laptops.Read the Full Story
But school technology buyers, beware: Despite the early existence of some products that claim to take advantage of the new technology, no uniform standard for its use has yet been approved.Read the Full Story
The Sakai Project is a community source software development effort to design, build and deploy a new Collaboration and Learning Environment (CLE) for higher education.Read the Full Story
We are at the point where something has to give: Either schools will stay the same and leave online efforts at a standstill, or our concept of school will change and allow online instruction to grow. Read the Full Story
A series of glossy TV and print adverts, designed for a “sophisticated marketplace”, begins on Sunday.Read the Full Story
Analysts with research firm Current Analysis said laptop sales jumped to 53.3 percent of the total PC retail market in May 2005. Last year, notebooks made up 45.9 percent of the total PC retail market.Read the Full Story