For years, American universities and colleges have made more and more information about their students available online: class schedules, addresses, telephone numbers, photographs and even grades....
A Pounds 300,000 grant from the Paul G Allen Virtual Education Foundation will support Oxford University's work on a system for delivering courses individually tailored for each student, writes Tony...
(Photograph) - Students and staff at the University of Warwick could be cutting their payphone costs by up to half in the next year thanks to a new Mitel telecard system. Cards, costing between...
A fast, technologically advanced Pounds 2.5 million computer network, linking eight universities in six Yorkshire cities, is nearing completion ahead of schedule. The Yorkshire and Humberside...
Tony Durham reports on a new class of software specifically for education and training on the Web The new products provide generic facilities that are likely to be useful on any course: content...
Tim Greenhalgh reviews the latest essential tools for multimedia designers and their teachers In the fairs of my early youth there was a particularly addictive game - Kill the Rat - that involved the...
A Glasgow university audiovisual unit has developed services to ensure that education is fit for an interactive future, Claire Neesham reports Gorillas, academics and students" may not be the obvious...
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Information technology's uncertain potential for educating and enriching the world's poorest people has become the hot issue for development specialists. The rush of publications includes a report...
Two decades of 'high technology' have seldom produced better ways of learning. David Clark examines a matrix for successful use of computers in teaching For 20 years now teachers have been trying...
As business data and hardware thefts continue to rise. Olga Wojtas reports on a Glasgow academic team's project to help companies combat computer crime No reliable statistics exist on the effect of...
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from the observations of a Danish police reporter in New York: "Long ago it was...
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A Dragonfly in the Sun
On Henry Petroski's The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance. As I sit at my desk I notice the pencil in the holder. It is a Venus pencil, which was originally produced by the American Lead...