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Christian G. Koch, a managing director and senior technology analyst at Trustco Capital Management in Atlanta, talked last week about whether the sector had begun a sustainable recovery. Following are excerpts from the conversation: Read the Full Article
Blackboard Inc. obtained a court order last weekend preventing Billy Hoffman, a computer science major at Georgia Tech, and Virgil Griffith, a student at the University of Alabama, from discussing vulnerabilities in the card system at a hacker convention in Atlanta. Read the Full Article
The Guide that since yesterday is online available on the website of the UNESCO Bangkok Office is a contribution to providing and strengthening communication and information facilities at the level of local communities.Read the Full Article
Analogies between Web links and citations have been used in information retrieval to improve search engine query matching and in information science to develop link metrics for academic and other Web spaces. The purpose of this paper is to begin a fine-grained process of differentiating between creation motivations for links in academic Web sites and […]
MDE Institute: Learn from Experts in a Small Group Setting Participants at WCET’s 8th annual Institute for Managing and Developing E-learning (MDE) will learn practical lessons that they can quickly apply back home. MDE is a five-day, intensive event that covers a wide variety of issues facing e-learning professionals. The intimate setting (registration is limited) […]
Judge Anne Workman, of Superior Court in Decatur, Ga., issued the temporary restraining order on Saturday at Blackboard’s request. The students — Billy Hoffman, of the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Virgil Griffith, of the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa — were set to discuss security holes in the Blackboard Transaction System at a conference […]
The library will be open to students at the school, employees of the departments of Justice and Homeland Security, and likely other federal agencies as well, said Lillian Gassie, head of technical services and systems at the Naval Postgraduate School Dudley Knox Library.Read the Full Article
But is a distance degree as good as an old-fashioned residential graduate degree? Two independent research studies have compared distance learning MBA students to their residential peers. Both studies have found more similarities than differences between groups in learner satisfaction and educational outcomes. Researchers at Colorado State’s AACSB-accredited business school compared distance students to their […]
The pending settlement still needs final court approval, so schools aren’t likely to begin receiving benefits until 2004 at the earliest. Read the Full Article
KCC has stepped up development of online courses and the college will eventually offer complete associate degrees online. Read the Full Article