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Thursday, January 28th, 2010Grant Writers, Get Ready — Bill Gates Is Fired Up About Online Learning
Bill Gates praises the potential of online learning today in his annual letter about the priorities of his foundation, which has a $34-billion endowment.
The Microsoft Corporation chairman says he’s a fan of the movement to publish course materials free online. He seems especially [...]
Grant Writers, Get Ready. Bill Gates Is Fired Up About Online Learning.
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010Grant Writers, Get Ready. Bill Gates Is Fired Up About Online Learning.
Bill Gates praises the potential of online learning today in his annual letter about the priorities of his foundation, which has a $34-billion endowment.
The Microsoft Corporation chairman says he’s a fan of the movement to publish course materials free online. He seems especially impressed [...]
Nonprofit Center for Information Technology Opens With Federal Support
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010Nonprofit Center for Information Technology Opens With Federal Support
A nonprofit corporation created to find new uses of information technology in education debuted on Monday.
Congress authorized the creation of the National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologies in 2008. The New York Times reports that the center could be giving out grants by [...]
As Open-Access Chatter Grows, U. of Rochester Debuts New Repository Software
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010As Open-Access Chatter Grows, U. of Rochester Debuts New Repository Software
The University of Rochester spent about $200,000 to get an institutional repository up and running in 2003. The hope was that professors would rush to fill it with the fruits of their research.
For the most part, they didn’t.
The problem: The repository was a faceless digital [...]
U. of Colorado Lab Helps Haiti Victims Tweet for Aid
Monday, January 25th, 2010U. of Colorado Lab Helps Haiti Victims Tweet for Aid
Shortly after last’s week’s earthquake in Haiti, a group of students working in a laboratory in Colorado unveiled a project that makes it easier for victims and volunteers to tweet for help.
The lab, at the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Atlas Institute, produced a guideline for [...]
U. of Colorado Lab Helps Haiti Victims Tweet for Help
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010U. of Colorado Lab Helps Haiti Victims Tweet for Help
Shortly after last’s week’s earthquake in Haiti, a group of students working in a laboratory in Colorado unveiled a project that makes it easier for victims and volunteers tweet for help.
The lab, at the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Atlas Institute, produced a guideline for a [...]
Service Lets Professors Log On to Networks on Other Campuses
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010Service Lets Professors Log On to Networks on Other Campuses
When a student or professor travels to another college campus, hopping online to check e-mail or surf the Web is usually difficult. Most college networks require a local user name and password to log on, and guest accounts can be a hassle to obtain.
Now a few [...]
U. of Oxford Bans Legal File-Sharing Service
Friday, January 22nd, 2010U. of Oxford Bans Legal File-Sharing Service
Universities have been known to forbid illegal file sharing on their campuses, but the University of Oxford has decided to ban a music-sharing program that’s perfectly legal. Spotify, a popular music-streaming service that uses peer-to-peer technology, is now prohibited on the campus network because it was simply consuming too [...]
Cornell Library Proposes New Model to Keep arXiv Going
Friday, January 22nd, 2010Cornell Library Proposes New Model to Keep arXiv Going
Cornell University Library announced today that it wants the top institutional users of arXiv.org to help pay for the online scientific repository. “Keeping an open-access resource like arXiv sustainable means not only covering its costs, but also continuing to enhance its value, and that kind of [...]
Colleges Teach Students to Compose Video-Game Music
Friday, January 22nd, 2010Colleges Teach Students to Compose Video-Game Music
Students can combine their passion for music and video games with a composition course at Berklee College of Music, part of a push by colleges to cater to a booming video-game market.
The Boston Globe reports that the college is one of several teaching students to prepare video games’ musical [...]