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Carnegie Mellon to offer online safety program »

Carnegie Mellon University will use a $20,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation to create and distribute web safety advice to faculty, teachers, and students in K-12 schools and on college campuses. ...

February 9 2010 / Read More »

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Electronic books now come in snack sizes

Who has time to read a whole book anymore? That’s the thinking behind a new publishing venture by the FT Press, a unit of Pearson, which has introduced two series of short, digital-only titles for...

February 8 2010 / Read More »

Web not yet the answer to college textbook costs

Most students still prefer print to digital textbooks, and even if they didn't, college campuses so far have made very few titles available online, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer. ...

February 8 2010 / Read More »

U.S. House passes cyber-security scholarship bill

The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a cyber-security bill that calls for beefing up training, education, research, and coordination so the government can better prepare to deal with cyber attacks, CNET reports. ...

February 5 2010 / Read More »

Industry lobbying imperils overhaul of student loans

Four months ago, it appeared all but certain that the White House and Democrats in Congress would succeed in overhauling the student loan business and ending government subsidies to private lenders. But an aggressive lobbying...

February 5 2010 / Read More »

Congressional Democrats challenge Comcast, NBC on merger

Congressional Democrats on Feb. 4 challenged executives from Comcast Corp. and NBC Universal to show that the cable TV operator's plan to take control of the entertainment company won't hurt consumers and rivals, reports the...

February 5 2010 / Read More »

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Stanford affirms support for Google Book Search »

Stanford affirms support for Google Book Search

The U.S. Justice Department’s concerns about Google Book Search persist, but not everyone shares those concerns: Stanford University last week affirmed its support of...

Feb 8 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Feds still troubled by Google Books deal »

Feds still troubled by Google Books deal

The U.S. Justice Department still thinks a proposal to give Google the digital rights to millions of hard-to-find books threatens to stifle competition and...

Feb 5 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Microsoft opens its cloud to researchers »

Microsoft opens its cloud to researchers

Researchers have until March 15 to submit proposals to the National Science Foundation that would grant access to Microsoft’s massive cloud-computing power for three...

Feb 5 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Experts split: Are FY11 student aid increases enough? »

Experts split: Are FY11 student aid increases enough?

President Obama’s fiscal year 2011 budget includes $156 billion in student aid, a second consecutive increase in Pell Grant funds, and a lower cap...

Feb 5 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »

Social media use on the rise, but fewer young people are blogging »

Social media use on the rise, but fewer young people are blogging

The use of social-networking web sites among young Americans continues to climb—but fewer teens and young adults are blogging now than four years ago,...

Feb 4 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Students use iPods, iPhones to grade Obama’s address »

Students use iPods, iPhones to grade Obama’s address

It's the stuff that makes political pollsters salivate: 30 Abilene Christian University students used iPhones and iPod Touches to respond to President Obama's Jan....

Feb 3 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Spike in online enrollment not surprising to many »

Spike in online enrollment not surprising to many

The 2009 Sloan-C report on online education confirmed what campus officials have seen during the country’s economic downturn: Americans are flocking to web-based classes....

Feb 3 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Conferences

Report details coming trends in campus technology

Report details coming trends in campus technology

Open scholarly content will become more commonplace in higher education in the next year as online universities and textbook companies organize and harness the internet's mass of educational material, according to a report...

Jan 20, 2010 / More »

Curriculum

Girls might learn math anxiety from female teachers

Girls might learn math anxiety from female teachers

Young girls might learn to fear math from the women who are their earliest teachers, new research suggests....

Jan 26, 2010 / More »

Funding

Industry lobbying imperils overhaul of student loans

Industry lobbying imperils overhaul of student loans

Four months ago, it appeared all but certain that the White House and Democrats in Congress would succeed in overhauling the student loan business and ending government subsidies to private lenders. But an...

Feb 5, 2010 / More »
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