Microsoft Gears Up for 64 Bit Windows
With Intel about to release Itanium, its first mainstream 64 bit processor, software vendors - and especially Microsoft - are getting ready to roll out the 64 bit version of Windows. My prognosis: massive system-wide hardware upgrades, followed by large scale document conversions. More...
A Global Education Market?
This white paper presents a brief summary of the motives, cautions, strategies and lessons associated with the movement from home markets to global markets through interviews with Asian, European, Latin American and North American education firms. More...
School Testing Bandwagon Spawns Web Coaching Sites
OK, school testing may be a bandwagon, but web coaching is not. These sites prepare students for standardized tests. They are the first edge of the wedge that will redefine learning - after all, if the student is actually learning from the coaching service, why should they be wasting their time in a school. More...
Official Says Internet Will Reshape Campuses
Eduprise picked this up, keying on the idea that online learning will not replace brick and mortar campuses. But of course, the choice isn't, and never was, between one or the other. Even students who attend traditional institutions will see more and more online learning. More...
Introducing the DE Rapid Response Team
Distance-Educator.com adds a new service... 'rapid response' distance education consulting. Of course, at $200 a question (their highest rate) you'd better word it carefully. More...
SPARC Partners With Library-Published Journal
Score one for the good guys: SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) today announced its partnership with the Journal of Insect Science, an electronic journal available free of charge and published by the University of Arizona Library. More...
U.S. Wooing Student Hackers
The U.S. government will provide $8.6 million in scholarship money to 200 students who agree to work for the government as computer security professionals after they earn their degree. More...
Online Course Management Platform Comparison
There is today an almost endless array of learning management systems. SiteTrainer provides a valuable service in providing a comprehensive comparison of 73 of them. More...
Cycle of Improved Practice
The Cycle of Improved Practiceis a database of more than 130 selected Canadian resources for post-secondary educators interested in using technology to improve teaching and learning. More...
Rebuilding E-Learning Companies
Advice on how to retool your e-learning company (we all have e-learning companies, right?) to adapt to the changing marketplace. Generally sound advice, though the last suggestion - "Acquire companies" - is a bit more than most of us can manage. More...
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