U.S. Officials Sport Fake Degrees
...ll fake diplomas from fake schools, or fake diplomas from real schools, and rake in hundreds of millions of dollars each year.
There are more than 30 online diploma mills offering MBAs alone, according to Vicky Phillips, CEO of GetEducated.com, an educational website devoted to distance learning tha......more...No Third Degree for Diploma Mills
...cost the government $1,515, a tab paid by the General Accounting Office, which bought the degrees for Collins as part of its investigation (PDF) into online degree mills in 2001 and 2002.
The senator's phony degrees may be funny, but fake degrees are not so humorous when high-level employees in the ......more... Med Students to Make Mouse Calls
Med Students to Make Mouse Calls
Online education isn't just for MBAs and IT workers anymore. A new program will allow medical students to complete the first half of their schooling remotely, with a combination of online courses and local clinic practice. By Joanna Glasner.
By Joanna Glasner
2:00 a....more... Is Chat-Room Speech Protected?
... of Internet companies join forces to defend chat-room denizens' right to speak freely about public figures. One judge who says she was defamed in an online forum takes her case to court.
Associated Press
8:59 a.m. March 5, 2003 PDT
PITTSBURGH -- Messages about public figures in Internet chat rooms ......more... Big Blue Builds Itty-Bitty Chip
... allowed the country to dial into the worldwide Web in January, but not many people in this impoverished nation of 51 million people can afford to go online.
Pyone Maung Maung, joint secretary of Myanmar's e-National Task Force, told Reuters 20,000 Myanmar people now surf the Internet and the number......more... All the World's an MIT Campus
...'s an MIT Campus
Anyone can get a sneak peek at a top-flight college education on the Web for free now that MIT is posting a sample of its courseware online. By Kendra Mayfield.
By Kendra Mayfield
2:00 a.m. Oct. 4, 2002 PDT
For about $27,000 a year, elite students can earn a degree at MIT, one of th......more... Film Shows Heart Surgery's Roots
...med on the program's website. Students across the country will have a chance to ask Watkins follow-up questions, with Web rings, a message center and online resource guide to foster further dialogue between medical professionals and students.
Skip Coblyn, a producer for the website, explains that th......more... Intel Predicts End to Slump
...el is expected to launch .13-micron Pentium 4s later this year.
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No more free lunch: Less than a week after Kmart announced it would buy out its online retail partner, BlueLight.com, the e-tailer said Monday it would discontinue offering free Internet service to consumers.
BlueLight.com said th......more... Computing the Geek Gender Gap
...the gap. A nationwide report by Pew Research last March also found that the
gender gap in Internet use is closing. Women also made up the majority of online holiday shoppers for the first time this past season, according to a recent survey.
Women are definitely using (computers and the Internet) equ......more... |