College officials say mandates for expensive equipment to watch online test takers could have been devastating during recession
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By: Dennis Carter

Web-based college programs won’t have to buy pricey monitoring gadgets like cameras and fingerprint or eye scanners to satisfy the requirements of a section in the recently reauthorized Higher Education Act, federal officials say. Instead, [...]

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By: Scott Aronowitz

In an effort to make its vast collection of digital educational resources available for in-class use, PBS has announced the launch of the PBS Digital Learning Library, a comprehensive source of digital video, still images, audio, games, and interactive simulations for teachers to use to augment their lessons. PBS made the [...]

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By: Suzanne Perez Tobias

Liz Sothman first heard about Twitter during a writing class at Wichita State University.

Someone from a local advertising agency was explaining how companies use the microblogging site to communicate, market or promote their wares, 140 characters at a time. Sothman was dubious.

“I remember being in the back row and saying, ‘This [...]

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By: Haley Jackson

More than 1,800 OCCC students have chosen to forgo coming to campus and instead, take online classes, said Stu Harvey, executive director of Planning and Research, in an e-mail.

There has been a significant increase in the number of online classes taken, Harvey said.

“[There’s been] more than [a] 66 percent increase in the [...]

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By: Ty McNae
To paint a profession, especially one as diverse as the teaching profession in one wide brush stroke as to say “Technology may be ‘too scary’ for teachers” (Wednesday, June 10, Enterprise-Bulletin) does a disservice to the profession and to teachers. There are incredible activities and discussions taking place and being completed with [...]

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By: Ruth Reynard

Web 2.0 tools have critically elevated the social networking activity and skills of individuals. Not only are young people highly active in social networks, but older individuals are also showing a huge increase in their use of these tools. The attraction of older age groups is, of course, social connection and community [...]

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By: Sandy Garrett

Learning is no longer confined to four walls and a chalkboard. In today’s classrooms, laptops, PDAs and other technologies have broken down the walls for teachers and students, literally bringing the world to their classrooms.
Technology is making a positive difference in schools and revolutionizing the way educators teach and children learn. Just [...]

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By: Dian Schaffhauser

When the fanfare, media coverage, national attention, and funding of a major 1:1 and wireless initiative has ended and a school district is left to pick up the pieces of its technology program single-handedly, what’s the result? In the case of North Adams Public Schools, a small district in Northern Berkshire County [...]

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By: Laura Devaney

A free online learning program from Microsoft is helping middle and high school students think about careers they might like to pursue and the skills necessary to attain those careers.

CareerForward debuted in Michigan two years ago when the state became the first in the nation to require students to have an online learning [...]

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By: Maya T. Prabhu

Members of an internet safety task force on July 8 suggested several ways to improve cyber safety for children, focusing on three key areas in particular: education before a child gets on the internet, control while the child is online, and having set procedures if problems arise.

The task force, which included [...]