All the World's an MIT Campus
... for their own curricula, borrow resources and compare notes. Virtual learners can use the online resources for self study.
John Matthews, a research associate in the mathematics department at Duke University, has sent links to MIT courses on chemical engineering and linear algebra to students in hi......more...Computing the Geek Gender Gap
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Although computing career interests in men are seeing a real resurgence, we're seeing much less of a resurgence in women, said Allan Fisher, former associate dean of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.
But just because there's a huge self-reported gender gap, that does not mean there's......more... Biz School Gets an Upgrade
...bout an academic approach.
At least one leading business school agrees.
[A degree in e-commerce] seems awfully, awfully specialized, said Janet Zich, associate news director of Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.
Despite the fact that almost one-fifth of last year's GSB graduating cla......more... The Postal Service Wants .us
...said they would consider the suggestions and asked for more detailed feedback.
We asked people to come back to us in the next month, said Becky Burr, associate administrator of NTIA. We need to regroup and understand what our possibilities are. There's a lot of work that needs to be done to form con......more... Online Ed 101
...b site. Our definition of an online class is one that is designed with the distance learner in mind, said University of California Berkeley Extension associate dean, Gary Matkin, whose organization put its first class online in October 1995.
From our perspective, it takes a team effort to put an eff......more... Stanford Offers Desktop Degree
...st major research university in the US to offer a master's degree totally online, said Joseph Goodman, professor of electrical engineering and senior associate dean of the School of Engineering, in a press release. Stanford has already offered credit for a variety of online courses, but until now th......more... Metadata, Sooner or Later
...e represented is called the universe of discourse. We can describe the ontology of a program by defining a set of representational terms. Definitions associate the names of entities in the universe of discourse (e.g. classes, relations, functions, or other objects) with human-readable text describin......more... |