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Many Americans get most of their news and other information from the electronic media. Yet until recently, children have not been taught how to thoughtfully examine media messages. A growing number of educators, academics, and media professionals have called for media literacy to be taught in schools, and it has now become part of the […]
The building is adorned with sleek, black computers (one for each of its 105 students), digital video projectors and banks of blinking lights and cordoned wire. The fluorescent-lighted hallways, computer labs and the walls of glass give the school a decidedly high-tech, modern and sophisticated feel. Read it Online
A $12.6 million, high-tech educational center is being developed as part of Northeast Ohio’s federal historic corridor that stretches 110 miles from Cleveland through Akron and Canton to New Philadelphia. Read it Online
While education sites aren’t currently moneymakers, more sophisticated content may allow providers to charge more for bite-sized learning. Read the Article
For its 2003 eLearning Instructional Design Symposium, The eLearning Guild pioneered what was believed to be the first ever blended event, combining physical attendance and virtual participation via Elluminate Live! The Guild continues its innovative use of Elluminate Live! with its monthly online forums, providing a comprehensive live eLearning experience that includes a variety of […]
The decision builds on the college’s five-year-old e-learning program, Online College @ Santa Barbara City College. Built on the WebCT Campus Edition(TM) course management system, the program offers 140 courses by 40 faculty members for 3,500 students. Eighty of the courses are fully online.
Diminishing state support for public higher education may permanently change that system as we know it today. Read the Full Story
Sheffield has joined the growing list of universities deciding to invest in a major expansion of e-learning. Read the Full Story
Inukshuk Internet, a subsidiary of Microcell Telecommunications Inc., recently launched a variety of projects in Western and Northern Canada that could have an impact on post-secondary courses, training for health- care professionals and in education for distance learners. Read the Full Story
“The project “The Future Role of The Correspondence School” is looking into the services that the government and the national schools system will require from its school of distance education in the future,” Trevor Mallard said. Read the Full Story