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The University of Alabama selected as part of program to educate troops

Two degree programs at the University of Alabama have been added to the prestigious eArmyU, the U.S. Army’s largest e-learning virtual university program, and will allow troops to work towards a degree while stationed away from campus. Read the Full Article

EASI HONORS FIRST GRADUATING CLASS TO EARN ACCESSIBLE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CERTIFICATE

Along these lines, we have established a listserv for our alumni, which will enable ongoing interaction and networking with EASI’s instructors and fellow students even after graduation.” EASI’s graduating class represents many distinguished institutions as well as several countries. According to Dorothy Cushway of the Canada Customs Revenue Agency, and one of the twelve students […]

Stevens’ plan raises education funding

But he remained silent about his plans for three agencies–the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education.Read the Full Article

The Library of Congress to save data ‘born digital’

The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program has been approved by Congress and received funding, and now archivists face the daunting task of figuring out just how to save information that was “born digital.”Read the Full Article

Students manage and market digital media projects

“This kind of project creates a different kind of student,” said Joe Trimmer, director of the Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry, a learning center that stresses collaborative thinking on projects that result in real products. Read the Full Article

New Online Journal Focuses on Health Education

The new scholarly journal is called the “Californian Journal of Health Promotion.” The first issue will posted on the journal’s Web site– http://www.cjhp.org–on March 1. Articles are currently being solicited for the journal’s second issue, which has the theme “Mexican American Health and Mexican American Health Education in California.” The journal will focus on health […]

INDEPENDENT TELEVISION SERVICE (ITVS), KQED,

(San Francisco, CA)—The Independent Television Service (ITVS), KQED, Goethe-Institut and Film Arts Foundation (FAF) present THE BEST OF INPUT, an annual exhibition of 14 television programs selected from last year’s INPUT. THE BEST OF INPUT will be screened at KQED, 2601 Mariposa Street in San Francisco, Friday, March 21 and Saturday, March 22. The program […]

Quality standards for instructional design

Based on decades of research and the work of the best minds in the field of Instructional Design, we have recently completed a comprehensive set of standards that can now be used to design and evaluate online courses. Read the Full Article

The eClassroom used as a Teacher’s Training Laboratory to Measure the Impact of Group Facilitation on Attending, Participation, Interaction, and Involvement.

Abstract This paper describes and quantifies the role of group facilitation in an experiential, real-time, online, university level credit course entitled eAHSC/230 Interpersonal Communications and Relations. A new and unique group interaction pattern called parallel communication, as well as classical elements of group interaction are described and quantified. New measures of online group facilitation attributes […]

SCTE Partners With NJIT, AM Communications to Offer “Distance Learning”

The courses, which will be available starting March 1, 2003, are developed by SCTE, NJIT and AM Communications, Inc. They are produced, administered and quality controlled by NJIT, a fully accredited public technological research university based in Newark, N.J. Read the Full Article