EDUCATION
SITES
The Distance and Education Training Council Online
A non-profit organization offering information on distance study institutions, and accrediation of distance-study institutions.
Frustrations With Distance Education
A paper examining the frustrations experienced by students of a graduate-level web-based class in 1997.
Open Knowledge Initiative
An initiative to build open-source tools for enabling online education; core members include Stanford University and MIT.
ARTICLES
According to a study conducted at Ball State University, though students prefer textbooks to ebooks, using ebooks doesn't diminish a student's retention of material. (8/26/2002 at The Chronicle of Higher Education)
Abilene Network Expands Beyond Research Universities
Due to pressure from MERIT, the large universities that created Abilene, the Internet2 network, have opened it to use by many other educational institutions, including libraries and elementary schools. (10/1/2001 at The Chronicle of Higher Education)
A Book Examines the Web and the Words Used to Describe It
In a new book called Unspun: Key Concepts for Understanding the World Wide Web, 13 scholars each examine a word in the context of the Web, including "cyberspace," "identity," "community," and "hypertext." (3/14/2001 at The Chronicle of Higher Education)
Computer Skills Open Doors for 'Unteachables'
Profile of the D.C. Youth Information Technology Program, which teaches website creation skills to learning-disabled and disadvantaged kids. (8/8/2001 at The Washington Post)
Education: From Working in Mines, to Learning Online
Laid-off mine workers in Minnesota are taking online courses from Capella University, which commited half a million dollars to helping the displaced mineworkers get degrees online. (6/6/2001 at The New York Times)
Establishment Is Skeptical About Digital Law Degrees
Concord University School of Law, the first Internet law school, is unaccredited, but still making waves in legal circles. (11/17/1999 at Star-Telegram)
FBI Pushes for Cyber Ethics Education
The U.S. Justice Department and the ITAA have launched the Cybercitizen Partnership, which aims to teach children that computer crimes - including copying software and music, and hacking into systems - are wrong. (10/12/2000 at The Boston Globe)
Few Funds for Poor Schools
The U.S.'s smallest and poorest schools, because they lack personnel or 10% of the funds needed for Internet equipment and access, can't take advantage of federal funding discounts which would reduce their Internet costs by 90%. (9/20/2000 at The New York Times)
Hampshire College Favors Noncommercial Web Software Open to All
A look at why Hampshire College is choosing open-source software solutions for its website architecture. (10/3/2001 at The Chronicle of Higher Education)
Historians Seek to Digitally Document the Slave Trade
G. Ugo Nwokeji (University of Connecticut) and David Eltis (Queen's University in Canada) are compiling an electronic record of Africans saved from slave ships in the early to mid 1800s. (3/16/2001 at The Chronicle of Higher Education)
Instructors Try Out Updated MOOs as Online-Course Classrooms
College professors are using graphical MOOs - which started as text-based virtual worlds where Internet users came together to talk - to facilitate online discussion with and among students. (10/24/2000 at The Chronicle of Higher Education)
Internet 101: Academic Study of Web is Catching On
An increasing number of universities are offering both courses and minors focusing on the Internet. (4/23/2001 at CANOE)
Kansas Educators Turn to the Web to Create a Unique 'Virtual' School
A Kansas school district is reaching out to home-schooled children with online courses and tests. (8/16/2000 at The New York Times)
Law Schools Can't Meet the Demand for Courses on Internet Issues
Law schools, recognizing that current law courses do not deal enough with the Internet and high technology, are offering "Cyberlaw" classes to eager students. (9/25/2000 at The Chronicle of Higher Education)
Library of Congress Goes Digital
The Library of Congress has managed to place 5 million documents on its Internet site, but has 115 million more to go, and has not faced the challenge of archiving the websites which are popping up onto the Internet every day. (1/19/2001 at Wired News)
MIT Begins Effort to Create Public Web Pages for More Than 2,000 Courses
MIT has begun work on its OpenCourseWare project, in which it plans to publish course materials for over 2,000 courses to the web over the next 10 years, at a cost topping $10 million; they plan to put at least 100 courses up by the Fall of 2002. (11/26/2001 at The Chronicle of Higher Education)
Museum of Science and Industry Exhibit Demystifies the Internet
Networld, a permanent new exhibit at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry, explains the workings of the Internet to visitors. (3/2/2001 at The Chicago Tribune)
Net Billionaire Dreams of Free Online Education for All
Newspaper reports on billionaire Michael Saylor's promise to invest $100 million in an Ivy League-level free online university pointed out that he hasn't recruited a single instructor for his venture. (3/16/2000 at The Industry Standard)
Not Your Father's Encyclopedia
"Last week, the English-language version of Wikipedia, a free multilingual encyclopedia created entirely by volunteers on the Internet, published its 100,000th article. More than 37,000 articles populate the non-English editions." (1/28/2003 at Wired News)
Online Degree Courses Double
According to a survey, 34% of U.S. universities now offer courses online that lead to degrees; and $2.7 billion was spent on computer hardware and software for campuses last year. (3/17/2000 at BBC News)
Online Researchers Lack Ethics
At the inaugural meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers, ethics was a hot topic; many researchers join communities and chat rooms without revealing their purpose their, and provoke debate with fabricated questions and scenarios. (9/15/2000 at Salon.com)
Partners Offer Online Alternative to School
A Florida-based businessman has developed a web site that should serve as an alternative to traditional classroom-based education. (10/21/1999 at Miami Herald)
Rights Advocate Starts Stanford Tech Law Center
Lawrence Lessig, formerly of Harvard Law School, will direct Stanford Law School's new Center for Internet and Society. (1/13/2001 at SF Gate)
School's Not Out Yet for E-Commerce
As the Internet economy continues to sputter, enrollment in ecommerce classes at colleges and universities declines. (6/5/2001 at ECommerce Times)
Study Finds Problems With Web Class
A case study detailing students' frustrations with distance learning has generated both controversy and examination of how technology and education interact. (9/22/1999 at The New York Times)
Textbook Publishers Try Online Education
The McGraw-Hill Learning Network and the Pearson P.L.C. Learning Network are two recently-launched efforts geared towards providing educational resources for teachers. (3/7/2001 at The New York Times)
The Paperless Campus Is the Future, Most Universities Agree, but a Few Obstacles Remain
Large universities are looking at email as a new way to communicate with their students, and save money; but moving from paper mail to electronic mail can be problematic. (12/18/2000 at The Chronicle of Higher Education)
Turning Traditional Courses Into Distance Education
Instructional designers for Penn State's World Campus coordinate teams of graphics designers, programmers, producers, and professors to make interactive courses available on the Internet. (7/31/2000 at The Chronicle of Higher Education)
Virtual Reality on a Desktop Hailed as New Tool in Distance Education
Colleges are using virtual reality exhibits to attract students, while instructors use them as teaching tools. (10/6/2000 at The Chronicle of Higher Education)
Warning: PCs May Be a Danger to Kids
A study by Alliance for Childhood says that young children should not use computers, as it prevents them from developing social skills, and increases risk of bad posture and obesity; but older kids should be encouraged to use computers. (9/12/2000 at ZDNet)
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