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‘Pirates of the Internet’ Is New Class Lesson

Iris Beckwith uses a 5-foot-tall robot to help teach elementary school students why it is illegal to download movies and music from the Internet. Read the Full Story

CAMPUS : WSU students can study abroad in Madrid

Professor Marshall Zumberg from the College of Education said Madrid was chosen because of the diverse population and culture, as well as the importance of Spanish culture to the United States and increasingly, to the Detroit area. Read the Full Story

A Low-Cost Virtual Reality Framework for Building Cooperative and Collaborative Exercises

However the cost of virtual reality environments is usually too high to be afforded in most of the training facilities, because of the cost of the necessary hardware and software. In this work we propose a framework to create low-cost VR simulations with the aim of easily producing training exercises that can be used in […]

The life and times of an online gamer

“I really gotta stop bleeding and dying,” the 24-year old said as he slouched in front of his computer in his ninth-floor Chicago apartment. “I’m really horrible about not paying attention to my battle fatigue.”Read the Full Story

Poverty Reduction Outcomes Through Education Innovations And Networks (COL-PROTEIN)

Five new open and distance learning programmes designed to reduce rural poverty have been selected by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) for support under its latest Poverty Reduction Outcomes through Education, Innovations and Networks (COL-PROTEIN) initiative. Read the Full Story

School district signs on to EduNet24 portal

The program partners the school district once more with officials from the Kentucky Dataseam Initiative, a program that allows the school’s computers to be remotely accessed and used by university professors for research. Read the Full Story

PowerResearcher and the U.S Army’s Distance Learning Problems

Firstly, distance learning soldier-students do not know how to effectively write a research paper and secondly, they do not know how to find, evaluate and use Internet information.” says Stephen Botes, President of Global Executive Management Ltd. Read the Full Story

Support from World-Leading STM Publisher Will Help Establish SLA Online University

At a special briefing yesterday at SLA Headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, Elsevier announced that it has made a one-time gift to the SLA Campaign for Professional Development. Read the Full Story

Tribal college to offer more degrees online

The new online degree programs are Health Information Technology, Elementary Education and Nutrition and Food Service.Read the Full Story

Service Hooks Rural Residents to the Internet

International Broadband Electric Communications of Huntsville, Ala., struck a deal with Central Virginia Electric Cooperative to sell broadband-over-power-line, or BPL, Internet service to the cooperative’s members.Read the Full Story