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2004 Vote: General Election Results

The election results for the presidential race, the state governorships, the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate are available here on the C-SPAN website.

An Action Research and Learning Approach to the Implementation of Web-supported Music Instruction

However, the effectiveness of such transformation is dependent upon the ability and willingness of music teachers to make a conceptual leap in their approach to the teaching of music. Online course developers and consultants need to keep this in mind and work collaboratively with music teachers and students to determine their specific needs in terms […]

Digital Community Colleges and the Coming of the ‘Millenials’

Investments in digital technologies have helped community colleges across America prepare for the needs and expectations of so-called “millenials,” the name given to the generation of 60 million people born between 1979 and 1994, according to the Center for Digital Education.Read the Full Story

UNT [University of North Texas] project provides cheap training for state libraries

In Texas, that has led to cuts in operating budgets, limited hours, reduced materials budgets, hiring freezes or elimination of personnel, and reduced library programs.Read the Full Story

Purdue Honored For International MBA Program

The Krannert Executive MBA program retained the British publication’s No. 1 in the international course experience category, which the survey describes as “the percentage of classroom teaching hours carried out internationally (outside the country in which the business school is resident).”Read the Full Story

University of Cambridge’s Health Studies School Selects WebCT to Drive Inter-Professional Learning, Collaboration and Best Practice Sharing

WebCT, provider of higher education’s most flexible and widely used e-learning solutions, today announced that the Homerton School of Health Studies (HSHS) at Cambridge University has selected the WebCT Campus Edition(TM) course management system to provide its pre-registration and post-graduate health professionals with flexible, accessible online education and to encourage “inter-professional” learning in its courses. […]

Free Satellite Broadcasts & Webcasts: Quality Assurance in Vaccine Handling and Storage

CDLHN and the California Department of Health Services Immunization Branch, in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), are teaming up once again to produce an important national satellite broadcast!Read More Information

Learner’s Library

Unlike other search tools that return mere citations or entire articles, the Learner’s Library takes you with speed and accuracy to the precise place within the text you want to go. Users can query the Learner’s Library and find the most relevant sentences from the most pertinent articles in our database.BEGIN YOUR SEARCH

School and teacher issues using learning objects

One of the difficulties for a project researching in several different countries, not all of which have researchers associated with them, is to deal with the language of respondents. Putting open-ended questions in the questionnaire, which is administered in local languages, makes analysis very difficult because, with no local researchers, the responses would have to […]

Are We There Yet?

Many of you may remember that in June of 1999 I shared a number of teaching and learning predictions for 2007 with Syllabus readers (“21st Century Teaching and Learning Patterns”). Read the Full Story