Saturday, July 09, 2005

Everything you ever wanted to know about distance learning. REVEIW of the Encyclopedia of Distance Learning - Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education. The topic of distance teaching and online learning associated technologies and applications covers a vast amount of ideas, concepts, issues, concerns, and opportunities. The innovations in computer and communications technologies combined with on-going ne [Online Learning Update] 1:43:30 PM

Explaining The Open University. Online Learning Is Open For All - Kate Watkins, FE News. If you watched primetime television over the last few months, you have probably seen those advertisements about that university where you can study from home while working at the same time. Yes, the Open University (OU) has made its mark on the UK with it [Online Learning Update] 1:42:12 PM

University of Wyoming: Use of online courses grows. UW online enrollment grows by 16 percent - AP. Online enrollment at the University of Wyoming grew by 16 percent during the 2004-05 academic year, school officials said. Almost 2,300 students took a total of 3,937 courses online last year, up from 3,391 online courses taken during the 2003-04 school [Online Learning Update] 1:40:30 PM

Drupal: Security. (Comment from Bill: Drupal is, "an open source dynamic web site platform which allows an individual or community of users to publish, manage and organize a variety of content, Drupal integrates many popular features of content management systems, weblogs, collaborative tools and discussion-based community software into one easy-to-use package.") Drupal.org downtime and comment security issue. Taran mentions that there's a security issue with Drupal conmments. Just to let everyone know, the comment exploit has already been documented and fixed with the Drupal 4.6.2 release (which this site is running). And drupal.org is down for the moment due to a maintenance issue at the computing center where the Drupal server is hosted. Those that want to pick up the 4.6.2 release before drupal.org is back online will find links to download mirrors and information on the latest security issues at Ber's site, webschuur.com. [cyberdash - cyberteacher cyberculture cyberlearner] 1:36:48 PM

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