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Learning environments strongly influence student outcomes and play an important role in improving the effectiveness of learning. Recently, a new branch of learning environments research has come to the discipline—distance education learning environments research.Read the Full Story
It’s been a precarious balancing act. Say that the state’s colleges and universities are in trouble — that inadequate state support is depleting quality — and they risk making matters worse by turning off prospective students and faculty. Read the Full Story
There they wrote about learning to use a bow and arrow, sitting inside a tepee and petting a buffalo.Read the Full Story
Share your successes, challenges, and how-to secrets with fellow educators in “Big D” this spring! Budget cuts and rising enrollments are requiring us to do more with less and we need your ideas more than ever!Visit the conference site
The school board learned at its meeting Tuesday that because the French instructor has left the district, students who took first year French last year will be allowed to take French through an extension class offered by the University of Nebraska. Read the Full Story
Karlstad, a idyllic small town in the Swedish Warmland (!), has the reputation of being the sunniest city of this Northern country: this makes it an especially appropriate place for a conference dedicated to the light and the dark sides of the global Internet. As a place in the virtual sun may still be considered […]
“The launch window will be open from September 20 to 30,” Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation G Madhavan Nair told reporters after delivering the Prof Brahm Prakash Memorial Lecture here. Read the Full Story
The forum, with the theme “Deng Xiaoping in our hearts,” was launched by the Ministry of Education-sponsored website, www.univchina.org, and drew thousands of students from universities nationwide, including the prestigious Beijing, Qinghua and Fudan universities. Read the Full Story
Attorney General Amos Wako rejected the proposed The Universities (Coordination of Post Secondary School Institutions for University Education) Rules, 2004 – also meant to streamline distance learning – on the grounds the Commission for Higher Education (CHE) was overstepping its mandate.Read the Full Story
In the past, the emergence of new technologies— the photocopying machine and videocassette recorder, for example—has threatened to tilt the scales of the copyright regime by loosening the control that copyright owners enjoy over subsequent uses of their works.Such a development could reduce the revenues that creators of copyrighted material obtain from their efforts and […]