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Darin Fish, business development manager in Microsoft Corp.’s mobile platforms division, described the disclosure as a “work in progress.” Furthermore, Fish said no final decision has been made whether there will be a mobile version of Longhorn, Microsoft’s next-generation operating system, or whether the technology will simply be part of the company’s Tablet Edition OS.Read […]
IntroductionBroadband technologies offer the potential to overcome many unique challenges and traditional limitations that characterize the rural economy, particularly those associated with distance and access. Citizens of rural and remote areas have similar needs to those of urban areas, but are disadvantaged in a number of ways.Read the Full Story
OpenCourseWare (OCW) now offers the curriculum and faculty course materials from 701 MIT courses on the web–about one-third of the way toward its goal of 2,000 courses by 2008. Among those using OCW are an educational technology instructor in Bangalore, India, a home-schooling parent in rural Kentucky, a university professor in Lagos, Nigeria, and a […]
Quality Interactions: A Patient-Based Approach to Cross-Cultural Care(C) is a case-based course designed to provide clinical staff with knowledge and skills to communicate more effectively and facilitate quality care for culturally diverse patient populations.Read the Full Story
In the past year, the number of lecturers using the internet as a teaching tool has doubled and is still rising. Read the Full Story
At least they are in the sense that students are no longer confined to just the classes and teachers offered in their own school buildings. Distance Learning Labs (DLL), now possible through computer technology, can bring a world of education unimagined just a decade ago. Read the Full Story
But when they met for the second time last week, the mood was more businesslike and the questions and comments somewhat thornier. Read the Full Story
Pupils from Prince Albert Junior and Infant School near the city centre were taught geography together with youngsters thousands of miles away at a school in Khanya, near Cape Town.Read the Full Story
DENVER, May 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — eCollege(SM) (Nasdaq: ECLG – News), a leading provider of value-added information services to the post-secondary education market, today announced it achieved revenue of $19.6 million for the first quarter of 2004, up 193 percent from $6.7 million for the first quarter of 2003. eCollege’s first quarter results include revenue of […]
Theorem 1: Education is good for development.Corollary:The demand for education is especially high in the developing world. Traditional education cannot cope with its size and is, in many cases, not the most cost-effective allocation of resources.Read the Full Story