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Experiencing War (War’s End VE Day, VJ Day) Stories from the Veterans History Project

As we build this unprecedented collection documenting both veterans and civilians and their EXPERIENCES of war, we will introduce new themes on the website. Please join our effort by sending us your own recollections and memories. Each contribution makes this project all the more priceless.Read the Full Story

Exploring the use of blogs as learning spaces in the higher education sector

This paper explores the potential of blogs as learning spaces for students in the higher education sector. It refers to the nascent literature on the subject, explores methods for using blogs for educational purposes in university courses (eg. Harvard Law School), and records the experience of the Brisbane Graduate School of Business at Queensland University […]

Outsourcing the Faculty

At Delaware State University, already tense relations between professors and the administration may implode over the issue.Read the Full Story

E-learning reaches beyond the classroom: For a geology class, it redefines the field experience

This is one example of emerging technologies featured at an E-Learning Institute today through Friday at Northern Arizona University. The institute discusses technologies, such as the tablet PCs, teaching with technology, assessment and an introduction to the new Web-based software at the university.Read the Full Story

Revamped Web site better serves adult learners seeking online education

“People today use major Web sites for everything from shopping to quickly finding solutions to everyday problems,” said Pete Rubba, senior director of the World Campus. “A Web site that offers an education should be just as accessible.” Rubba added that the Web site aims to better communicate the breadth of Penn State programs offered […]

College Board plans changes to AP courses

A team of researchers at the University of Oregon in Eugene is leading a re-examination of AP courses in U.S. history, biology, chemistry, physics, European history, world history and environmental science.Read the Full Story

University Presses Challenge Google

At issue is whether Google Print for Libraries, the company’s plan to digitize the collections of some of the country’s major university libraries, infringes the copyrights of the authors of many books in those collections. The program will allow users to search the contents of books, displaying context-specific “snippets” of the texts of copyrighted works.Read […]

Latest version of Thinking Cap Campus(TM) receives SCORM 2004 certification

SCORM – the Shareable Content Object Reference Model is the defacto standard in the packaging of eLearning content and is the driving standard of interoperability between learning systems.Read the Full Story

The Museum of Broadcast Communications Provides Access to Powerful Sources Describing American Civil Rights Movement

The MBC has created a free, web-based resource for K-12 teachers to use when introducing students to civil rights history. Supported by The Oprah Winfrey Foundation, the project features a searchable database and on-demand video and audio programs that can compliment textbooks and print material.Read the Full Story

Distance Education Services Advisor, Sessions.edu, was Chosen as Alliance Partner by Angel Learning

New York (PRWEB) May 25, 2005 — Sessions.edu has partnered with ANGEL Learning to offer online education services to users of the company’s web-based learning management system – ANGEL|LMS. In addition, Sessions will be a presenter at the 3rd Annual ANGEL User Conference on June 3, 2005 at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis.Read the Full […]