The Ever-Evolving Science Class
...ect is open to everyone and is free. It only requires filling out a short form. The homepage gives a brief description of the project as well.
In the course of changing the way kids learn, WISE is also designed to change a teacher's role in the classroom. We want teachers to move from being the 'sag......more...E-Textbooks Offer Light Reading
...aders and desktop PCs.
These students are part of the university's plan to phase out traditional textbooks and become a bookless college.
Delivery of course materials electronically will free us from the rigid ways that students get their materials, which are lectures and textbooks, said Dr. Adam Ho......more... Girding Up For the Power Grid
...RI spokesperson Brent Barker observes. They think new technology appears by magic. The problem is that the existing technology puts us on a collision course with the environment. Their strategy is to keep us on that course.
Like the infrastructure itself, the failure of support for long-range RD tra......more... MIT to Offer All Courses Online
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Turning left when most other institutions of higher learning have gone right, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology says it will offer all its course materials online, for free, within 10 years.
Associated Press
6:00 a.m. April 4, 2001 PDT
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts -- The Massachusetts Institu......more... Plugging In, Not Dropping Out
...the Central East Middle School in Philadelphia that need extra help in math can participate in a computer- and team-assisted mathematics acceleration course in addition to their regular math class.
The program's computer-assisted labs help students catch up with classmates by learning basic skills a......more... Stay Home and Go Back to School
...em are the University of California, University of Southern California, Stanford University, and Pepperdine University. Functioning as a kind of huge course catalog instead of a school itself, CVU's five-year plan is to involve at least 80 percent of the state's 301 accredited schools in the virtual......more... Online Ed 101
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by Beverly Hanly
5:20 p.m. Sep. 17, 1998 PDT
This is the second story in an ongoing series about online education.
Preparing to teach a college course used to be a largely one-person job. But for an online class, it takes a team of academics and techies -- not to mention a financial commitment......more... Stanford Offers Desktop Degree
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For Stanford grad Travis Bryson, a Java 3D software developer at Sun Microsystems in Palo Alto, the online option made it possible for him to take a course in bioinformatics, learning the lingo of the field so that he could approach a potential new market for his product and sound knowledgeable.
I ......more... Slaves to the View-Master
...either the Addams Family or F.B.I. Agent sets, or the movie preview reels, which were used in theaters during the 1950s to promote upcoming films. Of course, there are many unique viewers and reels that might fetch much higher prices at auctions, such as test reels on subjects that never reached pro......more... |