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London, England, February 2, 2004 – WebCT, one of the world’s leading providers of e-learning solutions for higher education, today announced that Coventry University has selected the WebCT Vista(tm) academic enterprise system (AES) to expand its e-learning facilities across the institution. The move will further increase the uptake of e-learning and enable University lecturers to […]
The initial phases of course development, student feedback, and peer review began the authors’ transition into their current regular practice as virtual professors at graduate and undergraduate schools, while they continued to teach in traditional classrooms in their respective institutions. Read the Full Story
Engineering companies are among the world’s leading employers, and managing embedded systems development projects is mission-critical work for thousands of those companies.Read the Full Story
“ISTE and CoSN, who collectively represent tens of thousands of educators nationwide, are extremely disappointed by the Administration’s proposals to eliminate a number of critical and longstanding federal programs that support pre-service teacher technology training, distance learning and community technology access. The proposed deletion of funding for three key programs – Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to […]
Students who are working on their senior thesis, also known as the senior capstone design project, incorporate their efforts into the Capstone Project Electronic Portfolios (CPEP).Read the Full Story
Math & Science on Location: The Futures Channel Digital Video Resource Library is the latest release from The Futures Channel, pioneers in creating video that connects classroom learning to the real world.Built on a high capacity DVD platform, the digital video library contains a remarkable array of award-winning Futures Channel “micro-documentaries” which take students behind […]
HOBOKEN, N.J. – A new discussion program debuted this week on the World Wide Web, produced at Stevens Institute of Technology.Read the Full Story
Join us on Monday, March 1, 2004 from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. for the third annual Blackboard Summit in Arlington, VA. This invitation-only forum, preceding the CoSN annual conference, will explore online professional learning for the K-12 classroom.Read the Full Story
George Washington University, for one, is in the process of removing Microsoft Corp. technology from its data centers and replacing it with Linux (news – web sites), primarily because of the cost and burden of security patching, said David Swartz, CIO at GWU, in Washington. Swartz spoke at a ComNet Conference & Expo panel last […]
Increasing speed from 11 to 54 megabits per second (Mbps) will improve access of data via e-mail and the Web. Users connect to the wireless network with a wireless network interface card in their laptops or handheld computers. Ball State’s wireless network has 3,000 users.Read the Full Story