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HIGHER EDUCATION: Students boot up high-tech ‘tablets’

“The fact we are the first to roll out this technology for a complete campus is very exciting. We are committed to putting the best technology possible into the hands of our students and faculty.”Pam BalchMayville State University President Read the Full Story

Bill Aims To Scale Back Controversial Copyright Act

Consumer groups made their push Wednesday to get Congress to amend the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to permit users to make personal copies of DVDs and CDs for limited purposes. But Hollywood studios and the music industry said doing so would lead to more piracy and lost sales.Read the Full Story

Fake college degrees warning

Britain College of Management and Science describes itself on its website as “the historical college in the city of London”. Read the Full Story

Distance learning to be available at Eastern

Eastern, a member of the Southern Indiana Educational Center consortium, will receive an estimated $60,000 to $70,000 in high-tech distance learning equipment for a $2,800 matching grant cost, superintendent Randy Barrett told the school board Tuesday night.Read the Full Story

McGill Integrates e-learning with other disciplines

Windsor, ON – May 12, 2004 – McGill Digital Solutions Inc. has announced that it will be the first to offer a branded approach to developing applications which combine the best practices of e-learning, e-performance support and e-marketing. With its e-fusion™ brand it will create a new category in retail sales support and marketing.“We believe […]

Experiences with Reusable eLearning Objects: From Theory to Practice

Currently several different definitions of the term elearning object (ELO) exist and many other terms are used, seemingly interchangeably, in place of elearning object.Read the Full Story

DIPLOMA MILLS: Federal Employees Have Obtained Degrees from Diploma Mills and Other Unaccredited Schools, Some at Government Expense

As you requested, we conducted an investigation to determine whether the federal government has paid for degrees from diploma mills and other unaccredited postsecondary schools. Section 4107 of title 5, U. S. Code, only permits the federal government to pay for the cost of academic degree training provided by a college or university that is […]

MIT Aims for the Bottom Line

“We’re entering a period where we will be eating, wearing and breathing computers,” said Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of the Media Lab.Read the Full Story

Lawmakers fear ‘dot-kids’ is a ‘dot-bomb’

After nearly a year of operation, only 13 web sites exist on the dot-kids domain, which was created by the Dot-Kids Implementation and Efficiency Act of 2002.Read the Full Story

Demand for universities ‘to soar’

The demand for new places – equivalent to 16 universities – would be driven by the rising number of 18 to 20-year-olds and improving A-level results, it says. Read the Full Story