Video’s where the action is
Google queues up videoSearch king is “going to start taking video submissions from people” in the next few days, Larry Page says.April 4, 2005Read the Full Story
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Consortium Builds Next-Generation Net
It’s already been built by a consortium that includes 207 universities, along with private and public research labs and government agencies. It’s called Internet2, and it works like a test kitchen for tomorrow’s networking innovations.Read the Full Story
The Future of Integration, Personalization, and ePortfolio Technologies
The result is a more customized, streamlined learning path for every student. ePortfolios document each step in that path: They showcase the learner’s educational growth, professional skills, and relevant experiences. Integrated campus portals and ePortfolios are in limited use now, but LaCour imagines much broader applications for them in—and across—education, business, and even state government. […]
Digital Tweed: Mapping the Terrain of Online Education
Like so many things in education and the academic community, much of the (sometimes polite, sometimes passionate) conversation about big issues is often driven by opinion and epiphany, rather than data and evidence. Certainly, the decade-long discussions on and off campus about distance and online education, fall into this mode. All (or at least many) […]
Why Online Teaching Turned Me Off
Then, in 1991, I had another idea. What about offering creative writing as a correspondence course? My administrators at Northern Virginia Community College were enthusiastic, but they wanted me to try a more modern version of distance teaching. Look, they said, here’s this online thing you can do. Read the Full Story
Finding Classes With Class: Getting the Most Out of Online Education
She heads over to the study of her Myrtle Beach, S.C., ranch house, sits down at her computer and starts responding to questions that her professor — 2,000 miles away, at Brigham Young University in Utah — has posted as part of the online course she’s taking.Read the Full Story
Alabama Governor, Students See Distance Learning Technology in Action
In his 2005 State of the State Address, Governor Riley announced a new distance learning initiative for schools – ACCESS (Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators and Students Statewide) — and he proposed an education budget that includes $10 million to get the program started.Read the Full Story
Some Colleges Falling Short in Security Of Computers
Last Monday, administrators at the University of California, Berkeley, acknowledged that a computer laptop containing the names and Social Security numbers of nearly 100,000 people – mostly graduate school applicants – had been stolen. Just three days earlier, Northwestern University reported that hackers who broke into computers at the Kellogg School of Management there may […]
Ground-breaking e-learning summit opens in Dubai
The MELT (Middle East Learning Technologies) summit underlines Dubai’s status as global leader in the development of on-line learning, the fastest-growing trend in education technology.Read the Full Story
FAQ: Forty years of Moore’s Law
The article outlined what became known as Moore’s Law, the observation that the number of transistors–tiny on/off switches that churn out electrical signals that get represented as 1s and 0s–on a chip can be doubled in a short period of time. Adopted as a yardstick by the tech industry, the concept is one of the […]