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Wired: Cyber School Flunking First
Wired: Cyber School Flunking First YearBefore Einstein Academy could hire its first teacher, the online-only school gets hit with lawsuits from educators concerned about its practices.
school Add tag Permalink | Friday, April 05, 2002
Wired: 3-D Med School, Hold
Wired: 3-D Med School, Hold the CadaversThe facility places scientists right in the picture, with four projectors displaying representations of the body onto the walls of a 2.5-cubic-meter room. Researchers view the images through glasses that are a bit like the old-fashioned stereophonic glasses -- using a shutter flicking 30 times a second, and a special trigger to manipulate the images, they create an immersive effect.
school Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, March 06, 2002
European Schoolnet: eLearning Award Winners
European Schoolnet: eLearning Award Winners announced at EMINENT II in Lisbon On 6 December 2001 the winners of European Schoolnetschool Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, December 18, 2001
Guardian Unlimited: Schools scheme aims
Guardian Unlimited: Schools scheme aims to swap blackboards for computersTony Blair today launched a
school Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, December 12, 2001
Yahoo!: European Biz School launches
Yahoo!: European Biz School launches e-learning programmeTop European business school Insead is entering the growing field of computer-assisted distance-learning with the launch of an online training curriculum, the university announced on Thursday. At a fee of 325 euros per course, Insead Online students will get training in seven course areas, including financial accounting and management instruction, the school said.
instructional design, school Add tag Permalink | Friday, November 09, 2001
First Monday: Computer-Mediated School Education
First Monday: Computer-Mediated School Education and the WebThe addition of the Web to the range of technologies which humans have used to mediate between themselves and the world has contributed to problems as well as advantages in the area of school education. Historical antecedents in areas such as writing, printing and industrialisation provide a context in which mediated experiences can be examined. In the 21st century, the availability of online education increases the possibility that virtual experience will be substituted for reality. There are also concerns that there will be a blurring of appearance and reality, and that cultural imperialism will continue to spread by use of the Web. Together with the observation that computer-mediation via the Web tends to reframe the central role of the teacher in the educational process, these factors are considered in terms of the need to establish future guidelines to reduce the adverse impact of the Web on school education.
school Add tag Permalink | Monday, November 05, 2001
Open Source Schools: Open Content
Open Source Schools: Open Content Encyclopedias in EducationIt is, therefore, very intriguing to consider the possibility of the use of open content textbooks (see opencontent.org, public domain texts (e.g., the works of Shakespeare found on Project Gutenberg), open content encyclopedias (e.g., Nupedia and Wikipedia), and other open content (and public domain) materials. How might such materials be used in education? What sort of pedagogical, political, and economic impact would their use have?
school Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, October 30, 2001
CIO: Online Unschooled By focusing
CIO: Online UnschooledBy focusing solely on academic issues, online universities fail to give their students the social context that allows information to become meaningful, claims Brown, Xerox's innovation officer and former director of Xerox PARC in Palo Alto, Calif. "Take away the social context and what you have is essentially a person with a computer and no education," he says.
innovation, school Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, October 17, 2001
Europemedia: 90% of EU schools
Europemedia: 90% of EU schools have an internet connectionAlthough teachers across the EU are embracing the use of the internet in the classroom, there are still varied degrees of enthusiasm since take-up between the 15 EU member states still show discrepancies...
school Add tag Permalink | Monday, October 15, 2001
Yahoo!: British Schools Flocking to
Yahoo!: British Schools Flocking to the InternetBritish schools are flocking to the Internet and gearing up to let their pupils surf the web in droves, according to a government report published on Tuesday. The report said 96 percent of British primary schools were now connected to the net -- up from just 17 percent in 1998.
school Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, September 05, 2001
Electronic School: Online Learning Grows
Electronic School: Online Learning Grows UpStudents turn to online classes and schools for varied reasons, but they have one thing in common: They all want or need something that's not easily available in the traditional brick-and-mortar school building. Students in rural communities can take classes such as Latin or AP calculus that their schools are too small or too poor to offer. Sick or hospitalized students can finish their class work without falling behind. Gifted students, students who have problems in the regular classroom, students traveling with their parents -- increasingly these youngsters are turning to online learning as an alternative to regular education -- No longer an experiment, virtual schooling is here to stay.
school Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, August 28, 2001
China Daily: Online schools have
China Daily: Online schools have much to learnOnline colleges will become one of the most promising Internet businesses in China despite dim prospects for profitability in the near future, according to industry executives and experts. Between July 2000 and March 2001, 38 universities enrolled 240,000 students for their online colleges, the Ministry of Education (MOE) said.
school Add tag Permalink | Thursday, August 23, 2001
First Monday: Technology, Schools and
First Monday: Technology, Schools and the Decentralization of CultureMost analyses of culture and technology have been fascinated, even transfixed, by all the wonderful things that can be created and shared using digital tools. Rarely have these cultural analyses explored the issue of how such technological tools are going to impact how individuals interact and organize around cultural content that is fluid and contested. This is particularly problematic for schools as technological tools allow students to reject, share and contest the fixed content that has historically been disseminated through a narrow range of books and pedagogical strategies. This paper seeks to develop a theoretical model of culture that can account for change in what was, and still is, considered by many social scientists to be impermeable structural boundaries. By conceptualizing technology as a symbolic tool, it is hoped that the model of culture developed in this paper can begin to explain how social relations in institutions such as schools can change in a manner that will upset existing hierarchical social relations.
school Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, August 08, 2001
CNET: School’s out for virtual
CNET: School's out for virtual universityHarcourt Higher Education, which launched a much-ballyhooed online college in Massachusetts last year, is closing the school's virtual doors this fall without a single mortarboard tossed in the air.
school Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, July 31, 2001
Salon: Why can’t Johnny respect
Salon: Why can't Johnny respect copyrights?In Britain, elementary-school classrooms prepare to preach reverence for intellectual property -- and to denounce the evils of file-sharing.
school, interesting Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, July 18, 2001