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Sun offers free GlassFish educationOpen in New Window
"lThe secret to business according to Sun Microsystems' chief executive Jonathan Schwartz is to first build volume and then figure out how to make money from the audience you've..." read more »
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College courses: even "offline" classes are online nowOpen in New Window
This week's edition of Science contains a series of perspectives on how computer technology is changing the education system. Two of the papers review a real trend in education: the growing access t read more »
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ACM wants computer science in on Obama's K-12 education planOpen in New Window
"If we're improving education in science and technology, a big part of that should be improvements in pre-college computer science education, according to the Association for Computing Machinery." read more »
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Knewton Takes Adaptive Learning To The Next LevelOpen in New Window
"The service combines live video chat with an instructor in a whiteboard environment, along with learn-at-your-own-pace sample questions and tutorials. Knewton finds the best teachers it can get and read more »
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Education 2.0: Never Memorize Again?Open in New Window
"Memorization is a waste of time when Google is only a a few clicks away. That's what Don Tapscott, author of the bestselling books Wikinomics and Growing Up Digital, believes." read more »
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Child predators apparently don’t use GmailOpen in New Window
Christopher Dawson slams both George Bush and John McCain for their part in a 'looks nice but accomplishes nothing' piece of legislation mean to keep child predators from using the internet to pursue children. read more »
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Higher education goes back to school on communication technologiesOpen in New Window
John Cox states "Changes in communication technologies are forcing higher education to make big, expensive, and potentially risky decisions, according to two campus CIOs speaking at this week's fal read more »
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Readin', Writin' and Web 2.0Open in New Window
New ways of using the Web mean change is on the horizon for schools, as well as students. read more »
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