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“Back-to-campus” MarketTimes webcast will explore key issues affecting firms doing business in the higher education market. MarketTimes, a web-based information service focused on the postsecondary education market, will explore college stores, budget cuts, and reauthorization in its premier interactive webcast. Scheduled for Tuesday, September 9th, 2003 at 1:00pm EDT, the hour-long MarketTimes webcast will focus […]
Additional sites include the London School of Economics, Drexel University in Philadelphia, Stirling University, Middlesex University, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College and Newman College, Birmingham. Within less than a year, 34 institutions have chosen Sentient DISCOVER as their ideal learning resource management system.Sentient’s commitment to being both LMS & VLE independent is clear. Its current customers […]
Perhaps of greater concern was the inability of our computer lab to run modern software. Needless to say, it was time for a change.Read the Full Story
However, the same study shows that students taking so-called distance-learning courses, especially tel-ecourses, drop out of those classes at a higher rate than students taking classes in a traditional bricks-and-mortar building. Read the Full Story
PEER is committed to achieving its objective by developing engaging multimedia (environmental health science) modules that are specifically tailored for science and non-science courses in rural middle schools. These modules advance the understanding of environmental health science education of the rural environment for grades 6-8. They are aligned with the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills […]
The white paper, entitled “Cultural Considerations for Successful International Events,” discusses the implications that advanced collaboration technologies have on companies that provide online events supporting multiple languages. According to the white paper, organizations that host multilingual events have to adjust pacing, content design and user interface navigation while considering the cultural norms of their audience. […]
Thirty-eight percent of the undergraduate students surveyed said that in the last year they had engaged in one or more instances of “cut-and-paste” plagiarism involving the Internet, paraphrasing or copying anywhere from a few sentences to a full paragraph from the Web without citing the source. Almost half the students said they considered such behavior […]
“We feel the program is mainly for at-risk students,” he said, “students who aren’t sure which way to go, are able to continue their education.” Read the Full Story
Coaching Sports Law for Administrators and Coaches, a new online course offered by MSU this fall, provides a solid foundation in the concepts, policies and procedures concerning the legal and administrative aspects of… Read the Full Story
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 […]