Perhaps you’ve heard that the U.S. Department of Education is requiring schools to use e-reader technology that accommodates blind students. A while back, we wrote about the colleges giving iPads to their students. It’s a beautiful thing, isn’t it? Free devices that could feasibly host text books, the Internet and any of the thousands of available apps? Incredible.
By Evan Minsker
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A handful of administrators at the University of California are spearheading an effort to create an ambitious online educational program for undergraduates. The idea is that UC could become the first top-tier American university to offer a bachelor’s degree over the Internet. It’s a thought-provoking, fascinating and innovative concept. It’s also a highly risky experiment.
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Teachers have been too slow to incorporate social media — which can be an attention-grabbing and effective teaching method — into their courses, according to research by an assistant professor of journalism and media arts at Baylor University.
Adding social media to lectures, textbooks and traditional discussion groups not only prepares students for current and future communication trends, but it gives those who are too shy to talk in front of their classmates an opportunity to open up via the Web, said Dr. Mia Moody in the current issue of Journal of Magazine & New Media Research.
By Terry Goodrich
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The Internet, in some ways, is invalidating traditional education models in favor of more open, fluid, and continuous learning. Here are a few ways that the Internet is changing the way we learn.
By Daniel W. Rasmus
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As the UK schools’ rebuilding programme is slashed, now could be the right time to wonder about tomorrow’s education in custom-made structures.
Britain’s schools and colleges are currently wrestling with public spending restrictions. Rapid rethinking is being done on what to spend on updating worn-out, often crumbling infrastructure. The tension between perceived quality teaching and learning in state-of-the-art schools, and what taxpayers and government are prepared to pay, is tangible.
By David Porter
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KANPUR: With a view to enhance the quality of engineering education in the country, the seven Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and IISc, Bangalore, through National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL)– an MHRD funded project– have been working on the development of video and web-based curriculum which can be accessed online (NPTEL website) by the institutions (technical universities and engineering colleges) and the individuals (students pursuing engineering).
By Abhinav Malhotra
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Blackboard announced on Wednesday it is buying out two software companies in an effort to bolster its real-time collaboration features and satisfy a generation of professors and students increasingly shaped by social media.
The company, infamous to some in higher education for its habit of swallowing up smaller fish, said it is buying Wimba and Elluminate, top providers of software that lets students work together online, for a total of $116 million.
By Steve Kolowich
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Though summer has kicked well and truly in and graduate students are clambering on the employment market to try and get a job, the odds are not in favour of any new graduate, even those with a high GPA.
Competitions like the Imagine Cup, where I am currently at in Warsaw, Poland, gives students the edge over their fellow students by adding ‘field experience’ and clear thinking, problem solving and prestige amongst their peers.
By Zack Whittaker
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First it was music. Then it was theater. Now it’s…education? Technology has enabled inexpensive reproduction of a wide variety of media, which has in turn radically transformed the structures of a number of industries. Whereas we used to have only concert halls and live theater, we now have CDs, MP3s, DVDs and movie theaters, and industries that used to consist of a large number of moderate-scale performers are now mainly served by the Brad Pitts and the Lady Gagas of the world.
By Jodi Beggs
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Congratulations to the 2007 Awardees:
Karen Cox
1st place ENGL: 40 Advanced Composition
City College of San Francisco
Lisa Harrison Psy D
2nd place Lifespan Development Course
City College of San Francisco
And thank you to all the applicants:
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Carolyn Brown, Foothill College, Graphic Design Studio 2
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