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Saturday, July 28, 2001
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,45588,00.html Secrets of the Atom Revealed: Fermilab Puts Interactive Database Online By Jeffrey Benner You can find a lot of information on the Web, but you just couldn't find a decent picture of the subatomic universe online. Until now. Scientists at the Fermilab in Illinois, home to the world's most powerful atom smasher, announced Wednesday that data collected during the last big round of experiments into the depths of the atom is now available online. .... (ed. note - interactive databases such as these can greatly enhance online learning capabilities by making truly unique, world-class resources available to all) (0) comments http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/51238p-763934c.html Inquiry ordered after Georgia students find personal information online The Associated Press ATLANTA (July 27, 2001 3:15 p.m. EDT) - A state investigation has been launched after college students found their Social Security numbers, home addresses and other personal information on the Internet.... (0) comments Friday, July 27, 2001
http://listserv.educause.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0107&L=edupage&D=1&H=1&O=D&F=&S=&P=1018 A CONVERGENCE OPPORTUNITY Colleges and universities increasingly look to the Internet not only for academic matters, but also to support transactional and administrative functions. Matthew Pittinsky, chair of the e-learning firm Blackboard, argued that several myths about how higher-education institutions hould interact with the Internet must be dispelled.... (ed. note - Edupage cites Converge, July 2001 as the source of this report) (0) comments http://www.wisinfo.com/newsherald/local/072601-4.html Distance learning grows in popularity - Platteville prof sees more students via mail, fax, e-mail By Thom Gerretsen Of the News-Herald For a growing number of people, the home computer is also a school. “By 2005, one of every three people in higher education will get their schooling from a distance,” according to Richard Klawiter, an instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. ... (0) comments http://www.elearningmag.com/july01/policy.asp U.S. Educational Policy Goes Global--and Takes e-learning With it By John S. Ruud In preparing for this month’s “worldwide e-learning” issue, I posed the question: What does the United States contribute to this increasingly international market? As it turns out, our federal government is quite active in the international education arena, through its international ambassador, the Department of State. As the pace of globalization seemingly increases by the day, “State” is a busy place. ... (0) comments http://www.potomactechjournal.com/displayarticledetail.asp?art_id=49130&cat_id=69 Saylor university on sabbatical By Taylor Lincoln It has been more than 16 months since Michael Saylor captured national headlines with his pledge to donate $100 million to create a free online university that would offer an Ivy League-caliber education. Today, there is no tangible sign that any work has been done on the university, Saylor representatives can’t point to a single employee and advisers to the project say they have not been called upon. The MicroStrategy chief executive, whose net worth has plummeted along with the value of his company, last week turned down opportunities to talk about the university.... (0) comments http://www.chronicle.com/free/2001/07/2001072701u.htm Maryland Colleges Band Together to Train Professors to Teach Online By JEFFREY R. YOUNG Talk about "sink or swim." Professors are often given little or no training before teaching their first online course. Hoping to better prepare faculty members for online education, 23 colleges and universities in Maryland have set up a consortium to run joint training programs and develop materials to help professors bring their courses into cyberspace. ... (0) comments Thursday, July 26, 2001
http://www.individual.com/network/headlines/StoryText.shtml?story=b0725132.901&date=20010726&level3=263&uid=Univer52 Seventy-Nine Percent of Users Say the Principal Benefit to E-Learning/Online Training Is Anytime, Anywhere Availability e-learning Conference & Expo 2001 SANTA ANA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 25, 2001--The results of the e-learning industry's landmark user study, conducted by e-learning magazine (http://www.elearningmag.com), indicate that 79 percent of users feel the principal advantage to e-learning/online training is that students, trainees or employees can access courses on their computers wherever they are and whenever they want. Fifty-nine percent say it allows for self-paced learning, and the same number say it saves money. Fifty percent say it provides "just-in-time" learning, while one-third like the "ease of use," fast distribution and the ease with which content can be altered.... (0) comments http://www.jordantimes.com/Wed/homenews/homenews6.htm Safawi women take a leap across digital divide SAFAWI — Every day for the last three weeks, Fatima, 21, has been crossing Baghdad Street — a narrow, truck-infested highway slicing through the middle of this town and stretching towards Jordan's eastern borders — to reach the newly-opened Prince Hussein Information Technology Community Centre. At the modestly-furnished, one-storey building, she seats herself before an IBM Pentium III, types her user name and password and logs into her Hotmail account .... Fatima is anxiously waiting for replies from local universities about enrolling in their distance-learning programmes.... (0) comments http://www.elearningmag.com/july01/webvideo.asp Incorporating Digital Video into Web-Based Learning Content: A practical overview for decision-makers By Nancy Fulton Many content developers want to incorporate digital video into their Web-based training materials. Good video sequences can achieve a variety of objectives, including: Making a complex series of steps easier to follow Reducing the amount of text users have to read in order to understand a process Increasing the visual appeal of technical training content Digital video is extremely effective under the right circumstances, but you’ll need special equipment, software, and expertise to produce it. In this article I’ll detail the tools, procedures, and costs associated with adding video to your e-learning site.... (0) comments http://www.pennlive.com/business/patriot-news/index.ssf?/base/business/99605192232257115.xml&cachetime=900 More on PSU Online MBA: Online business degrees planned By Bill Sulon of The Patriot-News Penn State University, targeting busy executives who want to stay home and keep their jobs while pursuing higher education, will begin offering a graduate business degree program on the Internet in January. "Given the interest we have had, I expect it will be very successful and give Penn State a prominent position in the online MBA market," said John Fizel, interim chairman of the program, called iMBA. "Our surveys indicate we will have a huge turnout for this." .... (0) comments http://www.chronicle.com/free/2001/07/2001072601u.htm Education Dept. Report on Crucial Aid Rule Avoids Recommendations By DAN CARNEVALE Department of Education officials released a long-awaited report Tuesday on federal financial-aid regulations that affect many distance-education programs, but they decided not to make any recommendations on how, or whether, the rules should be changed.... (0) comments Wednesday, July 25, 2001
http://listserv.educause.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0107&L=edupage&D=1&H=1&O=D&F=&S=&P=922 MIT INITIATIVE RAISES ISSUE OF IP RIGHTS IN ACADEMIA MIT earlier this year announced that it would make all of its course material available online at no cost. Although this will open a vast store of information to individuals worldwide, legal scholars note that it also poses a challenge to traditional notions of intellectual property in academia.... (ed. note - Edupage cites National Law Journal, 23 July 2001 for this report) (0) comments http://www.ittrain.com/new/jul01/cover.htm Pocket-sized lessons - Will we one day use handheld computers to learn how to do our jobs? Some vendors are betting on it. By Kim Kiser, Photos by Kelly Rogers William Randolph has held what many believe is the future of e-learning in the palm of his hand. He did it last summer when he used a wireless personal digital assistant (PDA) to call up technical information about how to repair equipment his employer, PRI Automation, makes for the semiconductor industry.... (0) comments http://www.emedia.com.my/z/TECH/Computimes/Outlook/20010723104214/wartrevamp Going forward with online education By Chandra Devi, New Straits Times, Malaysia WHILE many colleges and universities have started experimenting with online learning, there have also been objections to this mode of learning. In the United States, there have been cases of academics and students coming down hard on initiatives undertaken by institutions of higher education to implement online learning. Subu Kota, president and chief operating officer of Intralearn Asia, a joint venture between IntraLearn Software Corp and The Boston Group, says the opposition basically comes from people who do not know about the possibilities of online learning and fear technology.... (0) comments http://www.chronicle.com/free/2001/07/2001072501t.htm 2 Former Professors Look to Technology to Bolster Scholarly Presses' History Offerings By GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK Move over, Stephen King. Historians are creating e-books, too. The History E-Book Project, an effort of the American Council of Learned Societies, is a way for scholarly publishers to experiment with electronic technology. The project is supported with a $3-million grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation. The project is headed by the husband-and-wife team of Ronald G. Musto and Eileen Gardiner, both former college professors -- he in history, she in medieval literature. They are the founders of a small publishing company in New York City called Italica Press.... (0) comments http://www.clir.org/pubs/issues/issues22.html#digital From the Closet to the Center: Digital Libraries Enter a New Phase by Jerry George NOT MANY YEARS ago, you would find them off in some remote nook of the campus library. These experimenters, many of whom had long worked on automating library systems, could be seen huddled over their computers, working through the problems of getting a bit of the library's collection online. ... (0) comments Tuesday, July 24, 2001
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_30/b3742031.htm A Library to End All Libraries - Publishers are building an online system that will give readers more choices Record companies have fought digital distribution of music with every weapon at their disposal. They've won a series of tactical victories, but what do you gain if you win a war against your own customers? The record producers might want to take a page from stodgy old book publishers, who are quietly building a system to distribute digital text, which could help see to it that owners of that text get paid for its use. Along the way, publishers are developing a system for locating and retrieving material on the Web--especially the sort of copyright works now found mostly in libraries.... (0) comments http://www.internetweek.com/story/INW20010723S0004 McTraining Online - McDonald's To Use Web For Training By Mike Koller McDonald's Corp. plans to use the Internet in a pilot project to supplement its Worldwide Training, Learning and Development training program for its employees. The fast-food giant, which has nearly 29,000 restaurants in 121 countries, is using technology from DigitalThink to provide orientation and training in the basics of restaurant work, such as hygiene, food safety and service.... (0) comments http://www.catholicherald.com/articles/online719.htm Marymount Offers On-line Masters in Catholic School Leadership By Linda Busetti, Herald Staff Writer, (From the issue of 7/19/01) ARLINGTON — While many students are at the beach, for two weeks this summer some of their teachers and principals are doing homework and attending class until 9 p.m. at Marymount University in Arlington. Twenty-one Catholic school educators are enrolled in an innovative 36-credit Master of Education in Catholic School Leadership program that combines primarily on-line courses with an "intensive short summer course session" that began July 9.... (0) comments http://chronicle.com/free/2001/07/2001072401u.htm AARP Signs a Deal with Fathom for Distance-Education Courses By DAN CARNEVALE Members of the AARP already get discounts to fly on airlines, to sail on cruise lines, and to see Disney on Ice. Now they will be getting a discount on distance education. Fathom, a for-profit online-education provider, is announcing today that it has signed a deal with the AARP to bring online courses to its 35 million members.... (0) comments Monday, July 23, 2001
http://www.individual.com/network/headlines/StoryText.shtml?story=b0720083.402&date=20010723&level3=263&uid=Univer52 Concord Online Law School Announces Faculty and Administration Appointments LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 20, 2001 via NewsEdge Corporation - Concord University School of Law, the nation's only entirely online law school, and a division of Kaplan, Inc., announces several appointments in the school's growing faculty and administration. Since opening in September 1998 with six faculty members and a class size of 33 students, Concord Law School now has a total of 57 faculty members including Deans, Professors, Supplementary Lecturers and Instructors serving a population of more than 700 students worldwide.... (0) comments http://dailypress.com/news/final/stories/85131sy0.htm HU gets $1 million grant Federal money; will help expand nursing doctoral program By Miriam Stawowy Daily Press HAMPTON - Hampton University's School of Nursing has gotten a $1 million federal grant to improve its doctoral program. The three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will allow the university to expand its distance-learning education offerings for doctoral students. These courses are taken through the Internet and allow students flexibility in taking their classes from home.... (0) comments http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2001/07/07%2D18%2D01tdc/07%2D18%2D01dnews%2D3.asp More on Penn State Online MBA - University students will be able to take degree classes starting in the fall By Chris Rajotte Starting this fall, students from around the world will be able to earn an M.B.A. degree from Penn State almost entirely from their own living rooms.... Penn State joins a list of about 30 universities that offer online M.B.A.'s, including Duke, UCLA and fellow Big Ten members Northwestern University and University of Illinois. .... (0) comments http://www.dailytexanonline.com/07-13-01/2001071301_s06_Plagiarism.html Cut and paste culture: Internet sparks new concerns with student Plagiarism By Devin Griffiths Daily Texan Staff When asked if people she knows submit papers plagiarized from the Internet, Sandy Jones, a computer science junior, didn't hesitate to answer "Hell, yes, all the time," she said. And Jones is not alone. A 1999 Center for Academic Integrity survey found 69 percent of professors surveyed catch at least one plagiarist a year..... (0) comments http://chronicle.com/free/2001/07/2001072301u.htm Army's Portal Could Benefit Other Distance-Education Projects By FLORENCE OLSEN An Internet "portal" where soldiers can register and enroll in online college courses has been declared fully operational by the U.S. Army and its contractor, PricewaterhouseCoopers. Susan W. Nesbitt, dean of the graduate and professional studies division at Saint Joseph's College of Maine, which has enrolled 110 soldiers through the Army program since January, says she and others were surprised at how quickly all of the necessary pieces for the portal were put together..... (0) comments Sunday, July 22, 2001
http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/summer42/bower42.html Distance Education: Facing the Faculty Challenge Beverly L. Bower, Department of Educational Leadership, Florida State University ...For a variety of reasons, faculty resist efforts to force them into distance learning. They resist individually or as a whole, often seeking the guidance of union representatives. While individual faculty members may have individual reasons to resist participating in the latest wave of distance education, there are several reasons why faculty in general resist distance education. Faculty have specifically expressed concern for the adequacy of institutional support, the change in interpersonal relations, and quality.... (0) comments Online Learning News Blog Archives OTEL - Ray's Home Page - Notebook - UIS Online - U of I Online - UIS Home Fair Use |
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