American Association for Higher Education Announces Clara M. Lovett as its New President
She frequently contributes to Change magazine and the Chronicle of Higher Education and also is a columnist for The Arizona Republic. Read the Full Story
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Earth Has A New Look
Produced by the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, the global data set, called “SRTM30,” greatly improves maps of Earth’s land mass located between 60 degrees north and 60 degrees south of the equator. That’s roughly from the southern tip of Greenland to below the southern tip of South America. Read the Full Story
Maintaining the Integrity of a Web-Based Music Course
In addition, students should be able to write and teach music lessons built around the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) for Music. These Music TEKS are focused on four main areas: perception, creativity, historical and cultural heritage, and response and evaluation. Read the Full Story
Online classes gain popularity with students
Doug Gossen, director of the Distance Learning Program at LTC, is excited about what he believes are expanding educational opportunities. Gossen said different teaching mediums like television instruction courses, online courses and even written correspondence courses give students the opportunity to learn around their work schedules and other restrictions that normally wouldn’t allow the students […]
Conference highlights home-school benefits
“The battle for our children’s souls is a war,” Shelly Hendry of His Image Ministries in Clarksville, Va., said at the Northern Virginia Home Education Conference near Tysons Corner. “We’re like those firefighters [on September 11] who walked into those flames to do a rescue.” Read the Full Story
Students warned of copyright issues, possible subpoenas, as file sharing enforcement increases
Now that the entertainment industry is threatening lawsuits against those sharing copyrighted material, students have a lot more to lose. Read the Full Story
F.C.C. Discloses New Rules for Telecom Industry
The rules elaborate on a contentious F.C.C. decision six months ago that local telephone companies generally must share older equipment for voice transmission at wholesale rates but not newer technology dedicated to high-speed data.Read the Full Story
Nunez provides courses by Internet
Curtis Manning, a history instructor at Nunez, said the new technology is moving education to the forefront for those who would not be able to attend college the traditional way. Read the Full Story
‘McEducation’ an inevitable outcome of air travel, Internet
It is in fact the watchword created to describe a new wave in international education, and a future powered by the Internet and ever-increasing air travel.Read the Full Story
Education News Parents Can Use A television series about ways to ensure children’ educational success
Features and highlights of this year’s broadcast schedule and services:The 2003-2004 broadcast season will continue to feature nine one-hour shows, broadcast from 8-9pm Eastern Time on the third Tuesday of the month throughout the traditional school year.We will continue to offer information and coordinates for each show through our on-line registration system at . All […]