Ray S. posted an article on Recession Reality - Dec 15, 2009, 5:10 am
We seem to be quickly moving toward the day when the once-great Cal State system moves to a three-day week, with academic buildings rented out to storage companies and professors teaching class in par...
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Ray S. posted an article on Recession Reality - Dec 15, 2009, 5:05 am
The down economy has forced some Alabama universities to follow a trend that could only get worse for them when the state Legislature drafts the 2011 education budget. But local universities say they ...
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Ray S. posted an article on Recession Reality - Dec 15, 2009, 4:55 am
“We thought we’d spruce things up, given the time of year,” said Marybeth Tamborra, the spokeswoman and a fourth-year student whose deadpan delivery made it impossible to gauge whether her puns ...
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Ray S. posted an article on Educational Technology - Dec 14, 2009, 6:40 pm
A look at the top technology tools and trends to keep an eye on in the coming year. With technology evolving at the speed of light, and everyone looking to benefit from the latest, greatest hardware a...
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Ray S. posted an article on Educational Technology - Dec 14, 2009, 6:36 pm
ProProfs, a service featuring a variety of free, ad-supported educational tools and resources, has announced the launch of Brain Games, a free site featuring thousands of games and activities designed...
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Ray S. posted an article on Educational Technology - Dec 14, 2009, 6:30 pm
The Digital Horizons website "provides, maintains, and preserves a wide range of historical and significant content related specifically to Fargo- Moorhead and broadly to North Dakota and Minnesota." ...
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Ray S. posted an article on Online Learning Update - Dec 14, 2009, 6:10 pm
Frustrated. Challenged. Excited. Passionate. Overwhelmed. Opportunities. Waiting. These are the things I hear when I ask college professors around the world for two or three words to describe the use ...
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Ray S. posted an article on Online Learning Update - Dec 14, 2009, 6:05 pm
Most college professors will tell students to put away their iPhone or iPod once class starts. But not Ken Joy. His class requires them. Professor Joy teaches ECS 198H, Introduction To iPhone Applica...
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Ray S. posted an article on Online Learning Update - Dec 14, 2009, 6:01 pm
The Association for Learning Technology (ALT), a U.K.-based group for individuals and organizations with an interest in education technology, has announced the public availability of its open-access r...
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Ray S. posted an article on Recession Reality - Dec 14, 2009, 5:10 am
With the state budget hole headed toward new depths next year, community college students likely will pay more than ever for their classes. Although the 2010 state budget is still months away from ado...
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Ray S. posted an article on Recession Reality - Dec 14, 2009, 5:04 am
Fort Lewis College's enrollment has fallen to its lowest level in a decade, reducing tuition revenue as the college faces steep budget cuts. If our enrollment continues to decline the way it has ...
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Ray S. posted an article on Recession Reality - Dec 14, 2009, 4:58 am
Federal stimulus funds have bought fast-growing MTSU time to spread major job cuts over two years, but the task looms larger with proposed budget cuts now reaching $31 million. MTSU President Sidney M...
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Ray S. posted an article on Educational Technology - Dec 13, 2009, 6:40 pm
A college web site can leak information such as source codes and IP addresses. Eight out of 10 colleges included in a recent study were deemed vulnerable to cyber attacks that could cost IT department...
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Ray S. posted an article on Educational Technology - Dec 13, 2009, 6:35 pm
As video games continue to permeate our culture, schools and students are increasingly interested in using video games for learning. This interest has prompted universities and neurologists to explore...
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Ray S. posted an article on Educational Technology - Dec 13, 2009, 6:30 pm
Five of the nation's largest publishers of newspapers and magazines plan to challenge Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle electronic-book reader with their own digital format that would display in color ...
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Ray S. posted an article on Online Learning Update - Dec 13, 2009, 6:10 pm
Florida has been at the cutting edge of this innovative new way of learning that is growing with more students and more courses being offered each year. In a recent report by the Center for Digital E...
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Ray S. posted an article on Online Learning Update - Dec 13, 2009, 6:05 pm
Demand for law enforcement officers and fire fighters is expected to rise 11 percent before 2016. For more than 125 years, Reinhardt College has focused on meeting education needs within the community...
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Ray S. posted an article on Online Learning Update - Dec 13, 2009, 6:01 pm
The system is also studying creation of an
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Ray S. posted an article on Recession Reality - Dec 13, 2009, 5:10 am
State funding for Ball State University and other Indiana public colleges will be reduced by $150 million during the next two years, Gov. Mitch Daniels said Friday morning. The budget cuts are part of...
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Ray S. posted an article on Recession Reality - Dec 13, 2009, 5:00 am
The luster of higher education in California is wearing off fast -- that is the concern of a growing number of people worried about the state of the state's public colleges and universities. It is...
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Ray S. posted an article on Recession Reality - Dec 13, 2009, 5:00 am
Of all the damage that has been done in recent years by Sacramento's habitual flight from fiscal responsibility -- particularly during the disastrous Schwarzenegger years -- none has been more inj...
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Ray S. posted an article on Educational Technology - Dec 12, 2009, 6:40 pm
Writing is, by nature, a solitary activity. Yet to become better writers, most of us want more than just endless hours of solitary practice. We also want some form of communion with other writers: cla...
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Ray S. posted an article on Educational Technology - Dec 12, 2009, 6:35 pm
The Internet enables our students to do research from their classroom on a level never before possible. They can also link with other students around the world to share learning and cultural experienc...
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Ray S. posted an article on Educational Technology - Dec 12, 2009, 6:29 pm
Imagine having the luxury of traveling to another country and experiencing the language and culture without the hassle of purchasing a plane ticket or checking luggage. This ideal situation is now pos...
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Ray S. posted an article on Online Learning Update - Dec 12, 2009, 6:10 pm
Some people teleported, others flew and some just walked into the holographic auditorium for the Global Learning Forum event here Nov. 19. Though they arrived by different means, everyone in attendanc...
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Ray S. posted an article on Online Learning Update - Dec 12, 2009, 6:04 pm
The most prestigious international group of colleges and universities that offer online learning recently presented its top honor to UMass Lowell Executive Vice Chancellor Jacqueline Moloney, a pionee...
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Ray S. posted an article on Online Learning Update - Dec 12, 2009, 6:01 pm
Three schools in our region are making leaps and bounds - with a little help from a hi-tech invention. The Frog is a brand new piece of technology that
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Ray S. posted an article on Recession Reality - Dec 12, 2009, 5:11 am
With the recession still looming, Skidmore College officials are facing increased pressure to balance an already strained budget. In hopes of achieving financial stability, Skidmore is taking cost-sav...
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Ray S. posted an article on Recession Reality - Dec 12, 2009, 5:05 am
State tax collections were once again significantly below projections in November, prompting Gov. Mitch Daniels to announce more budget reductions, including $150 million in cuts to Indiana's publ...
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Ray S. posted an article on Recession Reality - Dec 12, 2009, 5:00 am
A $564 million drop in state funding has led to cuts in enrollment just as student demand is soaring. More people, in other words, are fighting for fewer slots. “The CSU mission is to admit the top...
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Ray S. posted an article on Educational Technology - Dec 11, 2009, 6:40 pm
As described by Lars Rasmussen, Google's software engineering manager, Google Wave is what e-mail would look like if it was invented today, since the version of e-mail that we currently use is ove...
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Ray S. posted an article on Educational Technology - Dec 11, 2009, 6:35 pm
Email was invented 40 years ago. What would it be if it was invented in 2010? Google's tag line for anyone interested in their latest - Wave. "Wave = Google's trump card against Facebook and T...
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Ray S. posted an article on Educational Technology - Dec 11, 2009, 6:30 pm
On the heels of awarding $3.4 billion in broadband grants earlier this week, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Wednesday awarded an additional $12.9 million intended to improve education and grad...
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Ray S. posted an article on Online Learning Update - Dec 11, 2009, 6:10 pm
We describe our work on seeding and building a developmental learning community for recruiting and retainingwomen in educational programs and careers related to computing and information science (CIS)...
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Ray S. posted an article on Online Learning Update - Dec 11, 2009, 6:05 pm
Online discussion forums provide open workspace allowing learners to share information, exchange ideas,address problems and discuss on specific themes. But the substantial impediment to its promotion ...
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Ray S. posted an article on Online Learning Update - Dec 11, 2009, 6:01 pm
In this paper, we describe an automatic personalization approach aiming to provide online automaticrecommendations for active learners without requiring their explicit feedback. Recommended learning r...
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Ray S. posted an article on Recession Reality - Dec 11, 2009, 5:00 am
Still awaiting their most recent round of budget cuts, Kansas University administrators told an audience Wednesday to continue to expect difficult cuts in the future. Having already eliminated 200 pos...
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Ray S. posted an article on Recession Reality - Dec 11, 2009, 12:10 am
Early ’90s officials say process used to grapple with budget crisis then was transparent. When the dust settled, the university had eliminated seven of its departments — including the department o...
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Ray S. posted an article on Recession Reality - Dec 11, 2009, 12:05 am
When Florida A&M’s chief financial officer completed her overview of the university’s budget outlook for the next four years, a silence filled the ballroom this morning where the trustees’ meeti...
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Ray S. posted an article on Educational Technology - Dec 10, 2009, 6:40 pm
More than 60 percent of students surveyed say their campus must have computer labs. Fewer than half of college students responding to a national survey said their professors are using instructional t...
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Ray S. posted an article on Educational Technology - Dec 10, 2009, 6:35 pm
Amid all the hubbub over Google DNS on Thursday, the search giant also released two more helpful tools to help you get a richer search experience and improve your language skills. Google launched its ...
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Ray S. posted an article on Educational Technology - Dec 10, 2009, 6:30 pm
The Kindle will be updated to be more accessible to handicapped students. Amazon.com Inc. will add two features to its Kindle eBook reader to make the gadget more accessible to blind and visually imp...
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Ray S. posted an article on Online Learning Update - Dec 10, 2009, 6:10 pm
"Online instructors are a critical component to effective online teaching and learning," said Jamey Fitzpatrick, President and CEO of MVU. "Just like in face-to-face teaching, online instructors must ...
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Ray S. posted an article on Online Learning Update - Dec 10, 2009, 6:05 pm
Most professors agree that more work goes into designing an online course than a face-to-face one. But if those professors are interested in improving their teaching skills, it might be worth the extr...
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Ray S. posted an article on Online Learning Update - Dec 10, 2009, 6:01 pm
A recent agreement that has been brokered by the MLA will now see a much greater level of high speed broadband services available throughout the various libraries across England. In order to give pub...
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Ray S. posted an article on Recession Reality - Dec 10, 2009, 5:10 am
Purdue University officials said they expect to begin budget cuts very soon after Friday's announcement that Gov. Mitch Daniels will reduce public college and university funding by $150 million. ...
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Ray S. posted an article on Recession Reality - Dec 10, 2009, 5:05 am
Katie Sweers found her passion among the course offerings at Michigan State University: deaf education -- teaching hearing-impaired youngsters how to communicate, in large part, through American Sign ...
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Ray S. posted an article on Recession Reality - Dec 10, 2009, 5:00 am
Revenue shortfalls at the state level already are affecting Indiana State University employees, who have been told they will not receive a pay raise next year. On Friday, Gov. Mitch Daniels announced...
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Ray S. posted an article on Educational Technology - Dec 9, 2009, 6:40 pm
Social-networking tools such as Facebook and Twitter can help community college students become more engaged in their academics, a recent report from the Center for Community College Student Engagemen...
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Ray S. posted an article on Educational Technology - Dec 9, 2009, 6:35 pm
It doesn't take much to disrupt an entire high school classroom and get a student off task, particularly when that student is using a desktop or laptop computer to finish a lesson. An incoming e-m...
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