Texas College Asking For $21 Million In Federal Funding
College President Dr. Billy Hawkins visited Washington, D.C., to request federal grant and direct appropriations. Read the Full Story
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An analysis of regional and demographic differences in United States Internet usage
Through Chi–square analysis this report tests whether observed regional and demographic differences in Internet usage are statistically significant. Read the Full Story
Hefce pulls the plug on UK e-university
The funding council Hefce is holding “immediate talks” with the e-University – known as UKeU – on restructuring its activities and services. This could lead to the break-up of the venture launched in 2000 at the height of the dotcom boom by the then education secretary, David Blunkett, as a worldwide 21st century successor to […]
Intellectual property the next big thing, Greenspan predicts
“Of particular relevance to our economy overall is the application of property-right protection to information technology,” Greenspan said, adding, “How appropriate is our current system– developed for a world in which physical assets predominated– for an economy in which value increasingly is embodied in ideas rather than tangible capital? The importance of such questions is […]
Gallup SD Partners with PLATO Learning to Deliver Formative Assessments Tied to Standards
The partnership between PLATO Learning and Gallup McKinley County Public Schools resulted from the district’s two-and-a-half year search for a vendor to provide formative assessments to its 13,800 students. Read the Full Story
Apple’s New Chapter in the Classroom
Has Apple (AAPL ) fallen back into a school daze? It sure seems that way from a recent series of bad tidings. The Mac folks just lost a massive one-to-one computing deal for the state of Michigan to tech giant Hewlett-Packard (HPQ ). Read the Full Story
Sun Goes Back to School For Enterprise
Although it is no stranger to academia, Sun has recently invigorated its approach to education customers with a combined front made up of its Java Enterprise System, Java Desktop System, and StarOffice. Read the Full Story
Making it easy: Tedious lectures, stiff backs, claustrophobia…
AS a child in Bangladesh’s Chittagong, Badrul H. Khan had a dream. He dreamed of having access to learning resources that was available only to fellow children in developed countries. The advent of the World Wide Web in the 1990s facilitated the fruition of the dream. Read the Full Story
UT Telecampus Newsletter
• New UTTC Website• TRACK• UTTC Spring 2004 Enrollment• New Program Information Updated• Spring 2004 Courses and Activities• UTTC Digital Library News• Spring 2004 Pre-Course Survey Results• Blackboard News• WebBoard• Embanet Read the Newsletter
Kiplinger Selects VCampus as E-Learning Partner
Washington, DC, March 3, 2004 – The Kiplinger Washington Editors, Inc., a leading publisher of money management information, today announced plans to jointly develop and deliver a series of online financial management courses with Reston, VA-based VCampus Corporation (Nasdaq: VCMP). Read the Full Story