Congrats to Microsoft founder Bill Gates for recognizing the importance of early exposure to technology tools that encourage students to develop their skills. Many of us visited local branch offices of companies like IBM in the days long before the personal computer was invented, and we developed a life-long interest in the promise of technology.
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Advocates of open access to the scholarly literature won an important battle this week when the faculty of Harvard’s arts and science college agreed to grant the university a license to distribute all of their publications freely over the Internet. The university has committed to the creation of a repository that will make that information [...]
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The on-campus battle over file sharing is really starting to get ugly. Apparently Congress has included in the College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007 some language that requires universities to
develop a plan for offering alternatives to illegal downloading or peer-to-peer distribution of intellectual property as well as a plan to explore technology-based deterrents to [...]
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Some students entering CSU Chico (as appears to be the case at Yale University among others) will be required to purchase Apple Macintosh computers next year. The machines will be configured with the correct hardware and software to ensure that students can take full advantage of campus resources to support their studies. As can be [...]
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Lest we forget in all the media hype involving the billions of dollars Microsoft will pay for Yahoo, the latter firm was founded by two Stanford University graduate students in the mid-1990s, David Filo and Jerry Yang. Taking it even further, we can note that Microsoft was itself founded by Bill Gates, a Harvard University [...]
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Brown University’s chemistry department has taken the plunge and invested in a set of iClickers, handheld devices that let students provide real-time feedback to instructors in large lecture classes. These little devices allow teachers to create mini-quizzes to test class comprehension of material being presented during lectures. They then can customize their presentation to emphasize [...]
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An article in PC World recently noted that Macintosh users at Princeton University rose from 31% to 41% in the year ending in 2007. That’s an extraordinary increase, probably reflecting the increasing utility of the Mac in a wide spectrum of applications. That Intel-based Macs can now also run Windows is no small plus either. [...]
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The admission of the Motion Picture Association of America that it had overestimated the impact of illegal downloading of movies by college students highlights the sad state of digital media distribution in America. After a decade of legal action by the recording industry and incessant moaning by movie producers, we still face the same problems [...]
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An increasing number of college and university faculty are taking advantage of such social networking tools as blogs and wikis to enhance the classroom experience. These tools can significantly increase the amount of interaction among students, especially when those interactions can usefully cross the boundaries of a single course’s boundaries. I have used some of [...]
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Maybe this should be filed under “Told you so”, but the Teachers College of Columbia University has created a web-based television station for teachers and students called After Ed. This sounds like a wonderful idea that takes advantage of the virtually limitless source of high quality content that is available from great universities, but to [...]
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