WizIQ is a North Carolina based service (and Chandigarh in India?) brokering contact between learners who want to pay for on-line tuition and teachers who want to be paid to provide it. The interesting part comes when you start to browse the offerings cur
Reading University have appointed a troubleshooter to put an end to antisocial behaviour by students affecting local residents. Reading University's new community relations manager, will take "prompt action" over any student troublemakers.
Elsevier has undertaken to have the majority of its Science Direct journals (those for which it holds or can obtain the copyrights) crawled and indexed by Google. Both Google and Google Scholar are slowly incorporating an increasing amount of this content
As well as being tedious, the sheer futility of it depressed me. In some areas I'm sure the traditional academic journal is useful, but it is almost entirely irrelevant in educational technology. I do read academic research articles (if they're availa
What is the Web for? And why do we care so much? Why has this simple technology sent a lightning bolt through our culture? It goes far beyond the Web's over-hyped economic impact: 500 million of us aren't there because we want a better "shopping experienc
Many different aspects need to be considered when selecting an Electronic Voting System (EVS), also commonly referred to as Personal Response Systems (PRS) and Audience Response Systems (ARS). By sharing the process used at the University of Surrey the au
While early use could be described as mainly for fun, IM today is a serious communication medium. Remarkably, it seems that educational institutions have been doing very little with it, while several studies indicate that it could indeed be a valuable too
A Finnish court ruled against a 15-year-old student in a libel case on Friday after he posted a clip of his teacher on YouTube, ordering the youth to pay 800 euros (543 pounds) in damages and a 90 euro fine.
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