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June, 2001
Editor's Corner
This month's collection includes
articles on Advanced Placement courses as well as the latest developments in the
work being done by several groups on Learning Standards and Learning Objects.
Cheers,
Bruce
Comments and
suggestions are always welcome. Send them to blbird@mail.aacc.cc.md.us
Faculty View
For Those
Who Would Click and Cheat
U. of
Virginia Hit by Scandal Over Cheating
Scholar Says
Students Should Learn How to Maintain Large Information Systems
Senate Committee
Favors Letting Instructors Use More Digital Works in Online Classes
A Marketing Web
Site Combines Professional and Professorial Expertise
Text and
Academic Authors
Intellectual
Heritage Program at Temple University
Campus-based
Professional Development: A
Descriptive Study of Structures
and Practices (PDF
file)
Student View
Questia
Job Market
IT Labor Crunch
Persists, Study Says
When Can You
Start? Building Better Information Technology Skills and Careers
Assessment
SAT
Said To Be Reliable Predictor Of College Success
Corporate
Leaders Decry Emphasis on SATs
Faculty
Resources
Web Archive
Opens a New Realm of Research
Teaching
Resource Exchange
British Web Site
Teaches Users How to Find Online Information in Their Disciplines
How People Learn
The Technology Source
Second Nature
Education
Review publishes reviews of recent books in education, covering
the entire range of education scholarship and practice.
Technology
Grant News
Tutorials
*
RDN Virtual Training Suite
e-mail
State of
the Art: For E-Mail on the Go, or the Sly
Microsoft
Outlook - Tips For Versions 97, 98 & 2000
Microsoft Outlook - Help
Center
K-12
*
The
Interactive University: A Future Model
Schools
Get Tool to Track Students' Internet Use
High
School: The Shifting Mission
Online
Courses to Improve Teacher Technology Skills
Education:
School District Buys 23,000 Laptops
A Science
Way of Thinking by Leon Lederman, Education Week, 6/16/99
Advanced Placement
AP
Program Assumes Larger Role , Education Week, 4/25/01
To
AP or Not To AP? , Education Week, 2/7/01
Whither Advanced Placement?
6/24/2000
Study
Links High School Courses With College Success, Education Week, 6/2/99
Offering
Online A.P. Courses in South Dakota Meets With Mixed Results
*Teaching Standards
International Society for Technology
in Education (ISTE)
National Council for Accreditation of Teacher
Education (NCATE),
National Educational
Technology Standards (NETS) Project is an ongoing initiative of the
International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
Distributed
Education
online delivery applications: a web
tool for comparative analysis
A Survey Compares
2 Canadian MBA Programs, One Online and One Traditional
A Geology Class
Combines Online Demonstrations With Field Trips
Academic Technologies for Learning
Distributed
Learning Program Impact Evaluation
Teaching with Technology
U. of South
Dakota Will Give Freshmen Wireless Handheld Computers This Fall
Lumina
Foundation for Education
Electronic Publishing
A University That
Reveres Tradition Experiments With E-Books
Publishers Promote
E-Textbooks, but Many Students and Professors Are Skeptical
Web Page Design
Migrating
to a Mobile Architecture
e-Learning
IRS Employees to
Begin First Online Courses From University Consortium
Rich in Cash and
Prestige, UNext Struggles in Its Search for Sales
An
Online-Learning Company Sees Community Colleges as a Lucrative Market
Companies Find
Academic Libraries a Key Target and a Tough Sell
Leery
About Use of Their Names, 2 Universities Withdraw From Online Institution
Founder of
Online-Tutoring Company Describes Perils of Offering Colleges a New Service
Trends?
Communication
4 Partners
Sign On to Support Wireless Data Standard
Compressed Data:
After Instant Messaging Comes Instant Kibitzing
Peer-to-Peer
P2P:
The Promise and the Peril
Compressed
Data: Copyright Rules Get Another Challenger
Software
State
of the Art: Unearthing Office Tools Long Buried (Office XP)
Microsoft
Is Set to Be Top Foe of Free Code
Microsoft
vs. Open Source
RealNetworks,
Microsoft announce media player plans
Microsoft
releases update for Windows 2000 |
May 18, 2001
ebXML
ebXML Standard
Finalized
Flash Comes
to the Small Screen
Hardware
Handhelds
Nudge PCs
More Than
a Palmtop, Not Quite a PC
I.B.M. to
Announce Expansion of Data-Density Storage Limit
How It
Works: Retinal Displays Adds a Second Data Layer
Report:
True 3D without glasses
Internet
UCLA Center for
Communications Policy - Internet Project
Study Finds
Optimism About the Internet -- Even Though It Makes People Work Harder
Nominees for Webby Awards
Nominees
announced for 'Oscars of the Web'
Education
A Biography of America http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica
ExploreMath http://www.exploremath.com
NationalGeographic.com http://www.nationalgeographic.com
Nova Online http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova
The New York Times Learning Network http://www.nytimes.com/learning.com
Media
New
Economy: Interactive TV May Be More Talk Than Interaction
Apple
Announces QuickTime 5 and QuickTime Streaming Server 3
Impact?
**Learning Objects and Standards
Some Online
Educators Turn to Bite-Sized Instruction
HOW
THE STANDARDS MOVEMENT PLANS TO REVOLUTIONIZE ELECTRONIC LEARNING by
Steven Gnagni, University Business Online, February 1, 2001
Learning
Objects
IEEE Learning
Technology Standards Committee (LTSC)
Stephen's Web
Learnativity
Advanced Distributed Learning Network
Learning Resource
iNterchange (LRN, pronounced "learn")
IMS Specifications
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