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May 15, 2005
Blogs and Wikis Click with Colleges
Blogs and the next big thing, wikis, are taking off on college campuses around the country. While blogs let people publish their thoughts online, wikis take things a step further, creating freewheeling, collaborative communities. Students can edit one another's work, bounce ideas around, and link to other Web sites. Professors at colleges and Universities nation-wide are starting to take advantage of this interactive tool.
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May 1, 2005
101 Redefined
Through the use of technology, institutions across the nation are starting to reinvent the freshmen lecture hall experience to become more interactive and context based. Since 1999, The Center for Academic Transformation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has been awarded $6 million in grants to re-imagine the large enrollment introductory course at 30 institutions by introducing technological elements. Similarly, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is converting its infamously daunting introductory physics
lecture courses to what it calls Technology Enabled Active Learning, or TEAL.
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April 15, 2005
Duke Gives iPods to Incoming Freshmen
In an effort to support its strategic plan to use technology in innovative ways within the classroom, Duke University has handed out 1,650 iPods to its incoming freshmen class. This pilot program will allow students to download recorded lectures and listen to them while at the gym or in between classes, listen to audio examples of textbook exercises, take notes, and record interviews.
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April 1, 2005
Newspapers 'expand e-learning'
In a survey of 150 European institutions of higher learning, three quarters indicated that they had plans to beef up computer-based learning in their courses over the next two to three years.
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