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The California Student Public Interest Research Group’s (CALPIRG) study, “Rip-off 101,” showed the average California college student paid $898 for books in 2003-04. This is up from the $642 per year students paid for books seven years ago, according to a different CALPIRG study. Read the Full Story
Years from now, the McKinney native hopes, his view will include more wildlife. But for now, the Navy lieutenant surveys the massive flight deck of the USS Harry S. Truman during his workday, then heads for the ship’s computer connections to log into his ecology class at Texas A&M University. Read the Full Story
Cerf, 60, co-designed the TCP/IP protocol and the architecture of the Internet during his tenure at the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) about 30 years ago. Read the Full Story
“This will not be a magnet school of fluff,” Jones said. “This will be a magnet school for all students.” Read the Full Story
The presentations were streamed live on the Internet, and participants could interact with the presenters via Internet chat. Read more about what the students–and Howard–learned through the process. Read the Full Story
PBS announced that it has developed a highly automated multistream television station that fits in just six equipment racks, which the network expects to place with several of its member stations in the near future. Read the Full Story
They are also to form the center of a digital home network, smartly knitting together television sets, video game consoles, home theater systems, portable music players, cameras and camcorders, telephones and almost anything else that can bear a microchip and liquid crystal display screen. Read the Full Story
Breeze enables individuals at all skill levels to achieve powerful results in hours, not months—using the familiar PowerPoint application and sharing information over the Internet in Macromedia Flash format. Read the Full Story
After developing 29 online projects at CLU, we conducted post-project evaluations and interviews to determine faculty impressions of the projects’ effects on teaching and learning. Faculty reported that the implementation of their projects prompted them to envision new and more effective ways to teach and that they observed improved student learning. The post-project evaluations also […]
Stephen Bruder, the author of “An Introduction to Robotic Manipulators — An Online Course in Robotics,” developed the e-textbook during a recent sabbatical he took away from the research university while working at Sandia National Laboratories. Read the Full Story