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While doing her homework, she gets tips online from sparknotes.com, and chats with far-off friends and family via America Online’s Instant Messenger. Friel uses the Internet at her part-time job, and publishes an electronic newsletter for a student group for which she’s a state officer. Read the Full Article
The ECC enables students to learn at their own pace through the Internet. Read the Full Article
Bangor based Edisus Ltd. produces an enterprise development CD-Rom and an internet-based learning package to help entrepreneurs realise their business ideas. Read the Full Article
The handbook, “Technology in Schools: Suggestions, Tools and Guidelines for Assessing Technology in Elementary and Secondary Education,” was released Nov. 5. It’s the result of more than three years of consensus building by the Technology in Schools Task Force, a group of state education agency managers and school district technology coordinators created by the National […]
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library (NSDL) program2 recently made its third set of awards for projects in three basic tracks: Read the Full Article
The design of any piece of technology intended for human use—whether for entertainment, work, or education— is ideally iterative and user-centered. Designers can not anticipate all the needs of users, but most begin with a prototype and revise it based on user feedback. This is even more true of online learning communities, where designers must […]
The 23-page “Performance Assessment in Teacher Education: The Iowa ePortfolio Model” has been distributed to state departments of education, colleges of education, school administrators, legislators, policymakers and media. Read the Full Article
Examines critically the origins and basis of ‘knowledge management’, its components and its development as a field of consultancy practice. Problems in the distinction between ‘knowledge’ and ‘information’ are explored, as well as Polanyi’s concept of ‘tacit knowing’. The concept is examined in the journal literature, the Web sites of consultancy companies, and in the […]
The online format is meant to help rural and inner-city students who go to high schools that do not provide advanced-placement courses. Read the Full Article
With Republicans set to control both houses of Congress (not to mention the White House and the U.S. Supreme Court), the shift in power could spell the end of several ed-tech programs that Democrats and some moderate Republicans in the Senate wanted to preserve. Read the Full Article