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Thousands of Indiana’s neediest college students could be forced to borrow more or work extra hours to pay for their education this year because state financial aid hasn’t kept pace with tuition increases at public and private universities.Read the Full Article
HomeNetToo is a research project designed to study how low-income families use the Internet at home. In particular, the researchers are interested in what makes people use the Internet and what effects its use has on people.Read the Full Article
Consumers are importing too many goods and services, the argument goes, while companies are exporting too many jobs. But while these activities may indeed be slowing the recovery in the short term, in the long term they are likely to be essential to raising standards of living.Read the Full Article
Some scholars celebrate the proliferation of digital images, arguing that it suggests a return to a pictorial age when knowledge was communicated through images as well as through words. Others argue that the inherent conflict between texts and images creates a battleground between the feminized, seductive power of images and the masculine rationality of the […]
Docent(R), Inc. (Nasdaq:DCNT), a leading provider of integrated software solutions proven to directly drive business performance through learning, today announced it will present an e-seminar session titled, “Measuring Learning Investments” with Ninth House, Inc.,Read the Full Article
WASHINGTON – As technophiles nationwide log on and use advanced technology to take college courses in record numbers, the University of Wisconsin has eliminated some of those same classes as part of its multimillion-dollar shortfall. Read the Full Article
BELLEVUE, Wash.–July 28, 2003–Building further momentum in the fast-growing Japanese enterprise learning market, Click2learn (Nasdaq:CLKS), leader in enterprise productivity solutions, announced today that it will sponsor and exhibit at e-Learning World 2003, Japan’s largest learning technology expo. Highlighting the company’s participation in the expo, held in Tokyo from July 30 — August 1 in Tokyo, […]
Dr. Miguel Cardenas: My initial academic backround as an electrical engineer in communications, my years of involvement in pioneering global modelling and international development programs in the seventies, and my growing frustration in the eighties of witnessing so many failed telecourse and distance education projects in the U.S. and other countries were three main reasons. […]
As leader of FORSCOM — the U.S. Army Forces Command — Ellis was at Carlisle Barracks speaking on the challenges ahead for the 284 graduates of the distance education program.Read the Full Article
Geology Labs On-line has recently expanded to include an environmental science component, earning it a new name—Virtual Courseware for Earth and Environmental Sciences. The popular site is the collaborative effort of natural science faculty members and support staff at California State University, Los Angeles: Robert Desharnais (principal investigator), Gary Novak (principal investigator), Dave Mayo, David […]