The borderless classroom
Baldev Singh, an ICT (information and communication technology) teacher from John Cabot School, Bristol, visited to share his expertise – and to learn.Read the Full Story
Posts Tagged ‘premium’
UMass Professor Receives $500,000 NSF CAREER Grant To Study Open Source Computer Programming
The CAREER grants support early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who are most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21 st century, according to the NSF.Schweik says the main goal of his project is to identify factors that lead to success or failure of Internet-based free and open source software projects and emerging […]
The CampusEAI Consortium and Internet2 Announce The OPEN Student Television Network
Through this collaboration, OPEN Student Television Network will now reach the over three million users at 220 Internet2 member research and education institutions, in addition to the 34 state education networks which have access to the Internet2 Abilene network. Abilene is a nationwide high-performance backbone network which operates at a speed 20,000 times faster than […]
WBT Systems Reaches Another Major Milestone based on Fixed Price – QuickValue® Methodology
Dublin, Ireland – March 3rd, 2005 – WBT Systems, a global leader in enterprise e-learning solutions today announces the successful delivery of major new implementations using its unique methodology – QuickValue®. By controlling complex projects against key success metrics QuickValue® has enabled the successful delivery of over 200 installations since its inception 3 years ago. […]
Online Discussions as a Tool for Learning: A Case Study of the Benefits of ICT Use in a First Year Teacher Education Context
It is told as a first person account of how a university educator, myself, studied a semester of online discussion. My aim was to assess the learning outcomes encouraged by such computer assisted interaction.Read the Full Story
Mesa distance-learning program grows in popularity
The program, which teaches students off-site by computer, started in 1999 and now boasts more than 600 students. Much of the recent growth came with the addition of about 165 kindergarten through sixth-grade students this year.Read the Full Story
A Quick Look at Macromedia Captivate
While PowerPoint® has been the communication tool of choice for most subject matter experts (SMEs), most agree that it’s not a premier e-learning tool. On the other hand, Flash is great as an e-learning development tool, but it requires talented and experienced Flash developers. Clearly, the market needs tools that combine the advantages of these […]
We no longer need public television
Why should government subsidize the production and distribution of entertainment and, even worse, journalism? Even if there were – has there ever been? – a shortage of either in America, is it government’s duty to address all cultural shortages?Read the Full Story
Statement by Bill Gates on Receiving an Honorary Knighthood
“I am humbled and delighted. I’m particularly pleased that this honor helps recognize the real heroes our foundation supports to improve health in poor countries. Their incredible work is helping ensure that one day all people — no matter where they are born — will have the same opportunity for a healthy life, and I’m […]
Book Review: A Brilliant Mind and an Anguished Life
It is hardly the greatest scientific mystery of the 20th century, but it is a riddle just the same: why did Norbert Wiener – gray eminence of gray matter, inventor of cybernetics, founding theorist of the information age – abandon his closest young colleagues just as they were about to embark on an exciting new […]