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- OH public school turn to cyberschool pioneer
- Tags: Education Technology, Online Education
- Blog posts 2007-04-11
- Archiving lectures helps students, doesn't hurt attendance
- Tags: Online Education, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- Study: Students go online to complete bachelor's degrees
- Why are students attending college online? To complete their bachelors degrees, finds a new study of 163 institutions offering online education options. Education consulting firm Eduventures conducted the Online Higher Education Market Update, which found that more students were pursuing bachelors degrees than associate degrees, according to Campus...
- Tags: Online Education, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- U of Illinois plans to take online education global
- The decision by the University of Illinois board of trustees to create a for-profit, digital campus has raised concerns that the change could threaten UI Springfields existing digital programs, reports the Journal-Register. Targeting students who are looking to return to college or earn an advanced degree while working a...
- Tags: Education Technology, Higher Ed, Online Education
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
- CO wants to create agency to monitor online schools
- The Colorado legislature has proposed a bill to create a regulatory arm for online education, while allowing school districts more local control over online education programs, reports the Rocky Mountains News. The measure proposed by Sen. Sue Windels, chairwoman of the state Senate Education Committee, was created after an...
- Tags: Policy, Online Education, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-03-06
- Popular online school in OR endangered by 50% residency rule
- An online charter school in Oregon is so successful that the state legislature is considering changing the student residency law in order to continue the contract with the popular charter school, reports eSchool News Oregon Connections Academy has more than 1,200 students from across the state, but a law...
- Tags: Education Technology, Online Education
- Blog posts 2007-02-09
- Why does high-tech California lag in online education?
- If the state of California has the most entrepreneurial, tech-minded population in the U.S., why doesnt the public school system reflect that? Thats the question that Sen. Abel Maldonado, a Republican, posits in an opinion piece in the Mercury News. That deficit has prompted Maldonado to sponsor Senate Bill...
- Tags: Education Technology, Online Education
- Blog posts 2007-02-09
- IN teachers union fights online schools
- The issue of state funding of charter schools came to a head this week as Indianas largest teachers union is making plans to fight the approval of two new online charter schools, reports the Indianapolis Star. After the approval by Ball State University of two online schools and three...
- Tags: Education Technology, Online Education, K-12, education, charter
- Blog posts 2007-02-07
- KS virtual schools growing fast, legislature poised to step in
- Three years ago, the Lawrence Virtual School in Kansas had 165 students. Next year, enrollment is expected to climb to over 1,000, making the district the biggest in the county, reports the Lawrence Journal World. "Theres no doubt in my mind it will be the biggest school in the...
- Tags: Education Technology, Online Education, K-12, virtual school
- Blog posts 2007-02-06
- Online options continue to grow
- The expansion of online education is trickling down to the K-12 set, reports TechNewsWorld. Although there is no substitute for playing dress-up and other games with other children, the virtual classroom is making headway in the elementary grades as a supplementary option. "The initial resistance to online...
- Tags: Education Technology, online education, TechNewsWorld
- Blog posts 2007-02-02
- After Katrina, meeting discusses online education in disasters
- After the Hurricane Katrina disaster brought the Louisiana school system to its knees, experts on emergency preparedness in higher education decided it was crucial to incorporate online education into school curriculum, reports CampusTechnology At a meeting last week in New Orleans, experts in disaster preparedness discussed the uses of...
- Tags: online education, education
- Blog posts 2006-09-29
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- Twelve best practices for online customer communities
- One of the more significant Web 2.0 trends in business this year has been the advent of the Web-based customer community, where groups of like-minded individuals focus around a brand or a set of product and services come together and interact online. Far from the cynical marketing ploy that it...
- Tags: Community, Best Practice, Customer Community, Deloitte, Community Management, Marketing Research, Social Networking, Marketing, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Software makers may sue eBay
- Tired of being "stiff-armed" by eBay, the Software and Information Industry Association is signaling its ready to sue over pirated software sales on the dominant online auction site, PC World reports. SIIA has offered eBay several suggestions for stemming the sale of pirated software on...
- Tags: Software, Software Information Industry Association, eBay Inc., Tiffany, Tools & Techniques, Piracy, Sales Strategy, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sales, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- GMail adds "https:"-only connections but still not by default
- Google has added a new "Browser Connection" feature to GMail to allow users to force e-mail sessions to always use the more secure "https:" protocol but, strangely, this is not turned on by default. In the Settings tab, at the very bottom, GMail users can now select...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, HTTP, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability
- The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...
- Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity
- Microsoft's financial analyst meeting was a tale of a technology conglomerate: You heard a lot about search, a decent bit about the enterprise and all sorts of projects in between. But amid all the coverage--see Mary Jo's laundry list of stories--I can't help but wonder if Microsoft's...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, IBM Corp., Game Players, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Open Office sweeps Sourceforge awards
- The big winner? Open Office. It swept the awards for top project, top enterprise project, and top project in education. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: SourceForge, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Scrabble-Scrabulous standoff spells L-A-W-S-U-I-T
- Hasbro said it has filed suit in the Southern District of New York against Rajat Agarwalla, Jayant Agarwalla, and RJ Softwares, better known as the creators of the popular Facebook application Scrabulous. It was only a matter of time before the Scrabble-Scrabulous feud came to a head, and that...
- Tags: Facebook, Hasbro Inc., Games, Intellectual Property, Personal Technology, Research & Development, Business Operations, lawsuit, Scrabulous, Hasbro, Tom Magrino, GameSpot
- News items 2008-07-25
- Click fraud in 2nd quarter of 2008 more sophisticated, botnets to blame
- Whereas the overall click fraud rate isn't increasing, it's not decreasing either, remaining flat for the first two quarters of 2008, according to data gathered from the Click Fraud Network, consisting of more than 4,000 online advertisers and agencies. Click Forensics report for the second quarter of 2008, indicates that...
- Tags: Click Fraud, RK West, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Gallery: Google's Knol takes on Wikipedia
- Google has unveiled its own "unit of knowledge" with a competitor to Wikipedia called Knol. Google's online encyclopedia promises to lend some credence by identifying the authors. by Andy Smith
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Knol, Wikipedia, Online Communications, Andy Smith, Google, Knol, wiki, encyclopedia
- Image galleries 2008-07-25
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