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Volume 1, Number 5

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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

  • FatBubble       (What a great name !!!)

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