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Though Apple says it plans to market the futuristic-looking computer to schools as well as consumers, analysts following the industry question whether the reconfigured iMac–which sells for a base price of nearly $1,300–will be enough to rescue Apple from declining sales in education, a market segment once critical to its success. Read the Full Story
The costs of developing online programs are significant, yet there are few resources to help planners. Here, Judith Boettcher proposes a few guidelines for predicting the costs involved in the design and development of online instruction. Read the Full Story
Commencing fall semester 2005, HSU students will be able to major in speech/language pathology and earn a bachelor of arts degree from CSU Fresno’s Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Studies.Read the Full Story
Researchers from the university will test the educational impact of a range of multimedia content that will be delivered over the network to Cowan and Mitchell elementary schools.Read the Full Story
Established last year by Internet2(R), a consortium led by 207 universities working with government and industry to develop and deploy advanced networking technologies, FiberCo provides a means for acquiring, holding, and assigning dark fiber assets on both the national and the regional scales and on behalf of the higher education community.Read the Full Story
REDMOND, Wash., Aug. 30, 2004 — When Miharu Soyama and Yukiko Asano arrived in the Seattle area in June for a week of training at the Puget Sound Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology, they represented the vanguard of a new approach to teacher training in Japan that promises to bring valuable information- and communication-technology […]
“A lot of people are going to be asking, ‘Where did the computer go?”’ said Apple Computer Inc. senior vice president Phil Schiller as he introduced the new iMac on the opening day of the Apple Expo in Paris.Read the Full Story
LEXINGTON, Mass. (August 31, 2004) – Centra (NASDAQ: CTRA), a leading provider of specialized application software and services for online business collaboration, today announced that Life Education Australia, a registered charity that provides school-based drug education to approximately 1 million Australian primary and high school students, has deployed Centra’s virtual classroom application to deliver real-time […]
Therefore, it seems appropriate to close the second volume with a retrospective editorial – not retrospective over the two years of the journal’s existence, but retrospective over the whole period of growth and maturity of the field.Read the Full Story
University researchers are experimenting with ways to increase its capacity and speed. Programmers are trying to imbue Web pages with intelligence. And work is underway to re-engineer the network to reduce spam and security troubles.Read the Full Story