Friday, July 22, 2005

Virtual school. Online courses clicking as hot trend for students - Peter Bailey, Miami Herald. A growing number of Miami-Dade middle and high school students are picking up credits online, mirroring a national trend as educators debate the effectiveness of cyberlearning. The road to Tel Aviv borders on desolation, bleak desert terrain traversed by [Online Learning Update] 2:26:23 PM

Perceptions about online teaching. Navigating Distance and Traditional Higher Education: Online Faculty Experiences - Alice G. Yick, Pam Patrick, Amanda Costin; IRRODL. The academic culture of higher educational institutions is characterized by specific pedagogical philosophies, assumptions about rewards and incentives, and values about how teaching is delivered. In many academic settings, however, the field of distance [Online Learning Update] 2:25:09 PM

Synchronizing Palm devices wirelessly. More tools for m-Learning? In Brief: DataViz ships new editions of RoadSync. (InfoWorld) - DataViz is now shipping its RoadSync solution for Palm Powered handhelds and smartphones. Based on Microsoft's Exchange ActiveSync protocol, RoadSync provides secure, wireless, and direct synchronization with Exchange Server 2003. RoadSync for Palm Powered devices offers access to corporate Outlook e-mail, complete with attachments. In addition to RoadSync for Palm Powered devices, editions of RoadSync are now also available for Symbian UIQ and Java MIDP 2.0 mobile handsets. Licenses range from $49.99 to $99.99 per user. Editions supporting Symbian OS-based Series 60 and Series 80 platforms will be available later this year. [InfoWorld: Top News] 2:23:30 PM

Mad Ave marketing mumbojumbo. From the story: "The question remains whether all media should be treated on the same basis in terms of engagement, because finding the right metric that works across all media is difficult." Right. 'Engagement' May Supplant 'Frequency' as Metric. Madison Avenue has turned to "consumer engagement" as its new media planning metric - one that could replace "frequency" as the multiplier in most media plans, MediaPost reports(via... [MarketingVOX - The Voice of Online Marketing] 2:21:52 PM

Dept. of "Huh?" Study: Online users in U.S. don’t know Internet lingo. The average American doesn’t know the meaning of “phishing,” one of the most serious online threats, according to a study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. [Computerworld News] 2:19:25 PM

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