Public libraries struggle with internet demands
New studies by the American Library Association (ALA) and the Public Library Association (PLA) find that America's public libraries are serving more people online, including students. But as…
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New law aims to validate online learning
The higher-education law signed by President Bush last month demands that colleges authenticate test takers in online courses through the use of sophisticated identification technology or with exam…
eSN poll: Leadership trumps experience
Educational technology stakeholders favor Barack Obama over John McCain in the 2008 presidential race, 58 percent to 37 percent, according to an informal eSchool News survey. Though unscientific,…
Report: Retool instruction, or U.S. will fail
Creating a 21st-century education system that prepares students, workers, and citizens to triumph in the global skills race is the central economic competitiveness issue currently facing the United…
Online textbooks: Hope or hype?
Online textbooks have been touted in recent months as a way to bring relief to college students beleaguered by soaring textbook prices. Now, a study from the Student…
Congress set to weigh in on key tech issues
Technology and telecommunications issues will be on Capitol Hill's radar in the months ahead as lawmakers attempt to influence regulators at the Federal Communications Commission and frame the…
Magazine unveils list of ‘top wired colleges’
PC Magazine, in consultation with the Princeton Review, has published a list of what it calls "America's top wired colleges," and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign tops…
Comcast sets monthly internet usage cap
The decision by Comcast--the nation's second largest broadband-service provider (after AT&T)--to set an official limit on the amount of data that residential subscribers can download and upload each…