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AS [Associated Students] board plans to post evaluations online

Maya Tomlin, Associated Students vice president for academic affairs, said she is exploring the idea of posting course evaluations online, allowing students to research professors before entering their classes.Read the Full Story

Classroom of the Future Foundation: Synergies

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Column: Online courses pose threat

Distance education is any type of instruction in which the teacher and the student are separated geographically so that face-to-face communication is absent for all or part of the time.Read the Full Story

UK eLearning and Futuremedia Plc Team Up to Deliver Government Funded Blended Learning Programmes

BRIGHTON, ENGLAND — (MARKET WIRE) — 10/24/2003 — E-learning solutions provider Futuremedia Plc (NASDAQ: FMDAY) today announced that following the joint success of the Company and UK eLearning Ltd to be awarded the contract to deliver Lifelong Learning Programmes to Tees and North East Yorkshire NHS Trust announced yesterday, the Company is now actively working […]

‘Juggernaut’ Merger Faces a Stormy Year

A week of intensive spin-doctoring has failed to settle critical questions facing the biggest and most complex of the tertiary education mergers taking place in South Africa – between the University of South Africa (Unisa), Technikon South Africa (TSA) and Vista University Distance Education Centre.Read the Full Story

The Digital Michelangelo Project

The project has mainly focused on some of Michelangelo’s sculptures, including the famous David statue, but has also “scanned 1,163 fragments of the Forma Urbis Romae, a giant marble map of ancient Rome.” Visitors to the project’s homepage can download the ScanView software, which lets users virtually fly around the models of the statues. Research […]

Information Strategy for Education and Research, 2000-2004 Implementation Plan

We have not put any price tags on individual projects, because even at their best they would only be indicative, and proportioning them to other educational and research inputs would require a much more detailed scrutiny of financing and policy than is possible in this connection.Read the Article

DEVO [Distance Education and Videoconference Operations] takes UB [University at Buffalo] classroom to the global community

Now, thanks to upgrades in technology and Internet capabilities, almost anything is possible. Many institutions, UB included, are extending their reach worldwide with the technology that makes interactive videoconferencing an accessible and affordable venture.Read the Full Story

Online Learning Week Launches Oct. 27-Nov. 2, 2003; Jones International University Provides People Information and Online Learning Trial at No Cost with Support of the United States Distance Learning Association

The week was created to inform the general public about the benefits of online education and provide opportunities to experience it at no cost.Read the Full Story

School laptops losing luster

Chamberlin has seen a big change in his students since laptops were introduced into his Boothbay Middle School classroom. Read the Full Story