An Hour on the Internet
This is across all demographics…
August 2010
Comm Colleges Affected by New Fed Rules
There will be a webinar on the new regs in the CTL on Tue, Aug 24, 3pm. A couple that may impact us are the “gainful employment” terms, and the […]
Scores Stagnate at High Schools – WSJ.com
This Wall Street Journal article confirms what many in the classroom are already aware of: high school students are largely unprepared for college work. The data is from the ACT, […]
Series on Plagiarism – NYTimes.com
Below is the link to a whole NYT series on Plagiarism. BCC is looking into adopting a plagiarism student tutorial in Moodle. An instructor could opt to suggest or require […]
Classroom disruptions – faculty perspectives
Here is an interesting online discussion of some of the challenges and solutions that a group of professors shared. Note that the date is 1997, so texting, etc. is not […]
Web accessibility study
Note the key points found that promote accessibility in this 2010 study of website accessibility: – Inclusion of a “skip navigation” link – Keyboard-accessible links (no hover menus) – Accessible […]
Ping – In School Systems, Slow Progress for Open-Source Textbooks – NYTimes.com
Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems weighs in on the Open Textbook movement… Ping – In School Systems, Slow Progress for Open-Source Textbooks – NYTimes.com.
Justice Department Weighs Putting Web Sites Under Disability Rules – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education
The ADA was signed in 1990, prior to the proliferation of the Internet. A proposed updating of the ADA Act may have implications for esp. public colleges. This is currently […]
Bill Gates Predicts Technology Will Make ‘Place-Based’ Colleges Less Important in 5 Years – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education
There are some pretty superficial and breezy remarks in here, but if we are able to retain net neutrality, what Mr. Gates predicts may be more true than false. All […]
IPad Gets The University Treatment This Fall | Epicenter | Wired.com
The iPad is being put to some real pilots this Fall. It will be interesting to see the outcomes. IPad Gets The University Treatment This Fall | Epicenter | Wired.com.
