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Other News: Macs in Higher Education

Other News: Macs in Higher Education 08/05/2004 10:21 AM
Thanks to a strong laptop line, Apple is doing well in the higher education market at the moment.

Va. House Criticizes Bush Education Plan

Va. House Criticizes Bush Education Plan 01/24/2004 11:25 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 24 2004 2:44PM GMT

the cynicism of higher education

the cynicism of higher education 05/28/2004 12:43 PM
An architect, falling apart. A disparate status of the modern architect.

Spotting Signposts to Higher Education

Spotting Signposts to Higher Education 08/19/2004 12:31 AM
Advice is widely available online for jittery parents and their college-bound offspring, even if their graduation date is still some years away.

U.S. Flunks Higher Education
Affordability (AP)

U.S. Flunks Higher Education
Affordability (AP) 09/15/2004 12:31 AM
AP - A new, independent report card flunks America's colleges in a key subject for many students and parents: affordability.

The balancing of mission and money in
higher education

The balancing of mission and money in
higher education 06/27/2004 08:11 AM
Chicago Tribune Jun 27 2004 12:09PM GMT

Higher education, Delta style
(USATODAY.com)

Higher education, Delta style
(USATODAY.com) 09/20/2004 06:47 AM
USATODAY.com - Telisha Phillips, 22, could for many reasons be considered one of Mississippi Valley State University's stars. A senior education major, she is student government president and a residence hall assistant, she leads campus tours and works part time - all while maintaining a grade point average between 3.5 and 3.6.

Longhorn Concept Video: Higher Education

Longhorn Concept Video: Higher Education 06/19/2004 06:01 AM
The sharing of ideas is a central part of higher education. Longhorn makes it easier for ISVs and publishers to meet education objectives in community interaction, shared annotations, lifelong digital portfolios, licensed content, mobility, and digital media. In this concept video, Carter shows some early work with McGraw-Hill, as he steps through physics calculations to send a space probe to Saturn.

Higher Education & Research
Opportunities in the United Kingdom

Higher Education & Research
Opportunities in the United Kingdom 05/01/2004 06:23 AM
Higher Education & Research Opportunities in the United Kingdom
http://www.hero.ac.uk/

Given the wide range of higher education opportunities in the United Kingdom, it stands to reason that there would be a website committed to serving as a primary portal for related materials. The site is organized into six zones, including research, studying, business, culture and sport, and two others. Some highlights of the site include the Research Assessment Exercise (which gives ratings to academic departments within Britain's universities and their research productivity), information for international students, and an important reference section. The reference section itself includes a glossary of terms (of which there are many within the lingua franca of higher education in the UK), listings of groups and organizations working in the same arena, and a listing of facilities at different institutions. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/]

Dutch higher education opens large
amounts of content to world

Dutch higher education opens large
amounts of content to world 06/05/2005 11:48 PM

A group of Dutch higher education instutions, DARE , released a large amount of academic content to the world through open access.

Interested parties can get hold of a total of 47,000 digital documents from 16 institutions the Digital Academic Repositories.

The project launched two years ago, as we blogged .

(via Stephen Downes )

The Daily Oklahoman just wrote an
editorial bemoaning the expansion of
Oklahoma higher education in the state

The Daily Oklahoman just wrote an
editorial bemoaning the expansion of
Oklahoma higher education in the state 06/11/2004 05:02 AM

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Boston University Corporate Education
Center Joins ITTC as Platinum Sponsor -
Project Management Assessment Tool to be
Featured

Boston University Corporate Education
Center Joins ITTC as Platinum Sponsor -
Project Management Assessment Tool to be
Featured 06/18/2004 03:10 AM
Boston University's Corporate Education Center joins the ITTC conference as a Platinum sponsor. The 27th annual edition of ITTC is being held June 21-23, 2004 at the Hyatt Regency Resort in Newport, RI. [PRWEB Jun 18, 2004]

MEDIA ALERT: Secure Elements Discusses
IT Security for Higher Education at
EDUCAUSE Security Professionals
Conference

MEDIA ALERT: Secure Elements Discusses
IT Security for Higher Education at
EDUCAUSE Security Professionals
Conference 03/31/2005 03:03 AM
Daniel Bezilla, Secure Elements’ chief technology officer, will explore how educational communities can benefit from implementing an Enterprise Vulnerability Management solution. [PRWEB Mar 31, 2005]

Other News: Dell's Education Strategy

Other News: Dell's Education Strategy 06/24/2004 11:24 AM
Here's how Dell plans to keep eating Apple's lunch in the education market.

Internet Daily: Podcasts catch on with
news, marketing and education

Internet Daily: Podcasts catch on with
news, marketing and education 04/04/2005 01:17 PM
CBS MarketWatch Apr 4 2005 5:02PM GMT

Boston.com / News / Nation / Card says
president sees America as a child
needing a parent

Boston.com / News / Nation / Card says
president sees America as a child
needing a parent 09/08/2004 02:24 PM
Boston.com / News / Nation / Card says president sees America as a child needing a parent .. Creepy Daddy Bush

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"this column from the Boston Globe"

"this column from the Boston Globe" 02/11/2004 09:43 AM

Self-education

Self-education 01/22/2004 02:11 AM
I grew up in an abusive household, but I'm determined to be happy. Am I capable of it?

Without an Education, Will Techies Go
Far Enough?

Without an Education, Will Techies Go
Far Enough? 12/19/2004 03:43 PM

For this article, I am standing firmly on a soap box.

The Associated Press reported, today, on a few information technologist that are doing well in their young careers, so well, in fact, that they each hope to retire before reaching middle age, and they attained their success without a formal higher education. This article struck a raw chord with me, because I emphasize the value of formal education to all of the students whom I teach, including those seeking a B.S. in information technology (IT) and those pursuing a M.B.A. with a further concentration in IT.

Education wasted

Education wasted 08/06/2004 03:26 PM
Express Computer India Aug 6 2004 6:51PM GMT

Education Policy

Education Policy 03/19/2005 02:19 AM

data.fas.harvard.edu/pepg/index.htm
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Conversational education

Conversational education 03/13/2003 10:16 AM
I find myself, from time to time, in discussion regarding topics on which I have a lack of depth, of experience; economics, business, law and the like; this is one of the most effective ways to learn that I've found. Recently, though, I've started noticing that some communities don't accept this as a valid method of learning.

Aggregating Education

Aggregating Education 03/11/2003 10:45 AM

I know it seems like I'm only talking about RSS these days, but that's because 1) it's beginning to hit a critical mass, 2) I very much believe libraries need to be part of this (if not leading it), and 3) it's on my mind because of my upcoming presentation with Steven Cohen on this topic.

However, it's not just me. Ken Tompkins is thinking about aggregators, too, and he's doing me one better by actually creating some. For his campus, he's currently aggregating NY Times and BBC feeds in one aggregator, Manila sites in a second aggregator, and the feeds from both aggregators into one "meta-aggregator." Ken writes:

"I have just begun to consider rss in college literature teaching.... We have a Frontier server and, of course, I know about the aggregator in both Manila and Radio.

So, I've worked out a way to aggregate our student Manila sites or, at least, the best ones as well as provide a way to aggregate news of interest to Arts & Humanities students....

These are very modest and display nothing important. I just got them working today. They need formatting and a swipe at css. For me, what is important, is that I now have a technique for aggregating sites of any flavor -- faculty, student, major, etc -- and can easily set faculty to creating similar sites for their departments."

Very impressive, Ken! This is another good experiment to watch. Is it my imagination or is education becoming an epicenter of RSS activity? Certainly more than at the BigPubs these days.

Ken describes a setup similar to what I want for Illinois libraries. For our "News Exchange Web Service" (NEWS) grant project, we're going to get four of the twelve Illinois Library Systems blogging with accompanying RSS feeds. We'll also provide individual and group aggregation inter- and intra-System, thereby creating a knowledge exchange system of unparalleled potential for communication. And that's just for starters.

Side note of personal opinion: the new Illinois Library Systems home page should be a blog with an RSS feed!

Education vs. faith

Education vs. faith 09/03/2004 10:19 AM
Muslim girls in France, concerned about learning and shocked by the hostage crisis in Russia, start school with little defiance of the new ban on head scarves.

Where is education in election?

Where is education in election? 04/15/2005 06:44 PM
The BBC's Mike Baker wonders why - whatever the parties say - education is not topping the election agenda.

Webl0gs in education

Webl0gs in education 09/21/2004 04:29 PM
Via Scripting News, I see a post by Michael Feldman of Dowbrigade wishing for a stronger uptake of weblogging in the classroom. Michael's a professor at Harvard and/or Boston University (I couldn't quite figure it out) and has one class...

Microsoft, education the key

Microsoft, education the key 09/23/2004 12:41 AM
AME Info Sep 23 2004 5:04AM GMT

Education and Words

Education and Words 03/15/2003 01:48 AM

Tyler is worri ed that college cheaters might get an unfair head-start in the job market.  In my experience, he has nothing to worry about.  GPA is certainly something we look at when reviewing resumes, but students often fret about GPA with an intensity that is rarely justified by subsequent life experience.  Good grades can sometimes play a part in getting a candidate invited to an interview (which is admittedly important for people starting out), but again I wouldn't worry too much about cheaters.  My sense is that people normally don't cheat unless they feel that they need to -- in other words, people cheat in order to avoid getting kicked out of college, not as a way to get the sort of GPAs that might stand on their own to get someone into an interview.  You could argue that it's unfair for a 2.0 student to perhaps get a job based on a fraudulent 3.2 GPA.  But with a 3.2, it isn't going to be the GPA that plays the major part in that person getting a job anyway.  And if they are the sort who need to cheat on college exams, they'll be left behind and Tyler won't be working anywere near them five years from now.

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This makes a nice segue to a rant that's been building for awhile.  Nothing annoys me more than those who whine "the government doesn't do enough to educate our children!"  This seems to be a very popular political tactic, but turns education on its head and does more harm than good.  Education is not a passive thing that students have done to them, but rather an active thing that students do for themselves.  If a person wants to learn Calculus, History, or Music; but doesn't, he has nobody to blame but himself.  It is not the parents' fault, it is not the teachers' fault, and it is certainly not the government's fault.  There are plenty of good Calculus books available, and the cause of failure to learn isn't lack of government funding or lack of quality teaching -- it is lack of reading the book.

It is true that children don't normally teach themselves to read, but this is really the sort of thing that parents should teach their children.  Even if 50% of children enter first grade without being able to read, teaching kids to read is a tiny fraction of what our government spends on "education".  And once a child knows how to read, virtually all of the world's learning becomes hers for the taking.  The invention of written language guaranteed that great "teachers" could continue to communicate to students long after the death of the teacher.  The printing press lowered the cost of such communications almost to zero, and public libraries made such teaching affordable to societies poorest members.  It is impossible to overstate the impact that these three developments have had on humans' ability to teach one another, yet we still have people who reach adulthood without knowing basic arithmetic.

I believe that the advent of the Internet and mass storage are having the same sort of impact on humans' ability to teach and learn that the printing press had.  And furthermore, I think that the "semantic web" will be another such leap for mankind.  But even without today's "mass-storage web" and the coming "semantic web", there is absolutely no excuse for someone failing to learn something that he or she desires to learn. 

Kids today have things soooo much better than Aristotle had.  I wish they would stop whining already, and "just read the book!" (as Mark MacLeod would say)

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And speaking of literacy, here is a nice little story about the "100 words you should know".  This list has provoked some disagreement recently, with some people violently rejecting the idea that flowery words are evidence of intellectual horsepower.  It is true that people sometimes use intimidating words as a sort of facade to dazzle and deflect away from real intellectual deficiencies.  But that is not the same as saying that a rich vocabulary is not worth acquiring.  Words are the atoms of language, and language is the substrate of thinking (especially abstract, higher-level thinking).  Words lubricate the brain.

On the other hand, I have a hard time taking seriously a list which considers "Ziggurat" a sign of intelligence.  I suspect they mixed up the "words that help you think" with "words that are good for Jr. High spelling-bee finals".

 

A virtual education

A virtual education 05/02/2004 07:32 PM
Straits Times May 2 2004 11:20PM GMT

An Education in Antialiasing

An Education in Antialiasing 03/20/2003 08:33 AM

John Gruber writes about antiali asing again. It's an interesting read.

Discounted Education

Discounted Education 08/02/2004 02:08 PM
Private education stocks are hit hard today, with Corinthian Colleges declining the most.

Apple Education Turnaround?

Apple Education Turnaround? 11/05/2003 12:46 AM
Businessweek has a detailed article which covers Apple's steps and mis-steps in the educational market over the past few years. While Apple's most ...

US Dept of Education supports RSS

US Dept of Education supports RSS 08/27/2004 01:51 PM

The US Department of Education now offers RSS feeds (via Scriptin g News).

Excelling in For-Profit Education

Excelling in For-Profit Education 06/01/2004 10:46 AM
The K-12 sector hasn't done as well as the adult educators, but Plato Learning is out to change that.

Participatory Journalism and Education

Participatory Journalism and Education 08/03/2004 09:13 AM
I'm in Toronto for today's Exploring Fusion Power of Public and Participatory Journalism conference, speaking about the tools of tomorrow's grassroots journalism and how folks in the business can get started. I'm glad to see that quite a few educators are part of this gathering. Their presence makes sense, given that tomorrow is the start of the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. My guess is that the students are, in many cases, way ahead of the teachers when it comes to understanding the tools and how to use them. (Cross-posted to We the Media.)

Minister in sex education pledges

Minister in sex education pledges 08/30/2004 06:38 AM
Scotland's health minister makes moves to play down the row over new plans for sex education in schools.

Get a taste of education MIT style

Get a taste of education MIT style 02/04/2003 04:33 AM
For instance, if you want to go to the search engine Google, type "Google" in the address box, then hit "control" plus "enter." Your computer will fill in the ...

Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Education

Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Education 07/15/2004 01:36 PM
Notes from a Always On session on Entrepreneurship and Innovation Education with Professors Tom Byers and Bob Sutton of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. One of my favorite topics and perhaps the best session at the event. Tom Byers: Can...

ADV: Research Education the Easy Way

ADV: Research Education the Easy Way 06/22/2005 02:50 AM
Research your dream job. Find a school near you that offers classes in your area of interest and get started on your dream career! It’s fast, it’s easy, and it’s totally free.
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