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ED: Tech is key to rural school success

The hour-long webcast, featuring presentations by lawmakers, education officials, local educators, and students, explored efforts under way in Montana, West Virginia, New Mexico, and Iowa to achieve better results and close the distance between students and educators in sparsely populated regions.Read the Full Story

Feds give $44 million for rural broadband

About $23.5 million will go to 57 distance-education projects, $11.3 million will help 34 communities nationwide get high-speed Internet access, and $8.9 million will fund 27 telemedicine projects.Read the Full Story

UNB Professor Wins Prestigious Award

The paper was published in the American Journal of Distance Education in 2002. (Requests for reprints should be sent to dconrad@unb.ca.) Read the Full Story

Radio Community Health Education Proves Effective

It is through radio that most people get information on the environment, economy, health, science and agriculture, just to mention a few.Read the Full Story

SITE 2004

SITE 2004 is the 15th annual conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education. This society represents individual teacher educators and affiliated organizations of teacher educators in all disciplines, who are interested in the creation and dissemination of knowledge about the use of information technology in teacher education and faculty/staff development. SITE is […]

The Digital Disconnect: The Widening Gap Between Internet Savvy Students and their Schools

Yet, little is known about student use of the Internet for schoolwork or about their attitudes towards the broader learning that can take place online. Nor has there been much exploration of the consequences of those teenage views for educators, policy makers, and parents.Read the Full Story

PBS And Leading Colleges Join To Provide “Anytime, Anywhere” Access to Top Quality Distance Education College Courses and Degrees

ALEXANDRIA, VA – September 25, 2003 – PBS today joined five of the nation’s leading institutions of higher education to announce that, for the first time, every course available in the wide ranging “PBS Campus” service (www.pbs.org/campus) will be available for any student to take for college credit, no matter where they live. The five […]

Carnegie grant to help revamp teacher training

The $5 million Carnegie grant to Stanford will be matched with funds raised by the university, said Jeffrey Wachtel, the project’s coordinator and senior assistant to the president. Read the Full Story

New Museum Joins Forces With Artists’ Web Site

In an arrangement announced last week, Rhizome will become officially affiliated with the New Museum. Rhizome’s staff has already moved into the New Museum’s offices at 583 Broadway, between Houston and Prince Streets, and the museum will provide Rhizome with accounting, clerical and other administrative services. The partnership will allow Rhizome to expand its activities […]

Managing E-Learning Pieces

In most cases, implementing enterprises will have to assemble their own e-learning pieces, rather than buy one complete solution. They will have to painfully integrate different content (including assessment), different management systems, and manage the experience of a vast diversity of end-learners.Read the Full Story