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University Launches Online Courses, Measures Learning Outcomes With Education Portal
White Papers North Carolina's Queens University of Charlotte wanted to better support its community's need for online education. Queens knew that online offerings and Web-based support for faculty would enhance the school's ability to attract faculty and students.
[October 11, 2008, 1:01]
Singaporean online university opens doors
News The tech shakeout hasn't stopped investors from launching an online university in Asia; one that they hope will skirt the pitfalls that have claimed many a dot-com. Universitas 21 Global (U21G), an e-university based in Singapore, is set to...
[July 29, 2003, 13:52]
Fast-Growing University Improves Online Messaging, Publication, and Communication
White Papers The University of Sharjah wanted to improve online services and communications for its growing user base. Using Microsoft technologies, it deployed a Web portal capable of supporting multiple sites, audiences, and languages.
[December 19, 2007, 0:01]
The University of South Australia Makes Education More Accessible Through Online Learning
White Papers With up to 15 per cent of its students studying via distance education, the University of South Australia wanted to improve learning opportunities and extend its competitive advantage in the Asia-Pacific's lucrative tertiary education market.
[July 7, 2006, 0:00]
Guangdong's 10-Campus University of 18 Square Kilometers Goes Wireless to Boost Learning Outcomes and Share Resources Online
White Papers GuangZhou University City (GZUC), officially known as the Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Centre has big plans. Located in China's Guangdong Province, GZUC is home to 10 of the province's universities' campuses, many of whom also have campuses...
[April 25, 2007, 1:00]
Webroot Spy Sweeper Enterprise Helps University of California, San Diego Medical Center Protect Patient Data and Secure Network Against Online Threats
White Papers After a successful installation at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Webroot Spy Sweeper enterprise made the short list of anti-spyware products to be tested. While the UC-San Diego medical center did have a comprehensive security...
[January 21, 2009, 0:00]
Humans beat AI in robot wars
News Human innovation has fought off competition from robots created using artificial intelligence in an online experiment by boffins at a London university. The online Sodarace competition, created by the Queen Mary University of London, pitched...
[November 28, 2003, 12:30]
Real Security for a Virtual University
White Papers The University of Applied Science, Regensburg in Germany is a well-respected institution in the field of online learning. The University needed to maintain 24 hour access to online learning for over 17,000 students.
[November 11, 2008, 23:00]
US colleges may charge for songs
News An early meeting with university officials, attended by representatives of most of the big music services such as Apple Computer's iTunes, Pressplay (now Napster), and Listen.com's Rhapsody, showed just how much of a gap in expectations had to be...
[August 4, 2003, 11:15]
Portsmouth Uni students get Google Apps service
News A university has provided its students with free access to an advertising-free version of Google Apps, including webmail, online documents and calendars. But the university expects greater support costs, through providing a much greater range of...
[September 4, 2009, 9:26]
Data thieves strike university
News Online intruders broke into a server containing the credit card numbers of some 57,000 patrons of a Georgia Institute of Technology arts and theatre programme, a university official said on Monday. In January, the University of Kansas acknowledged...
[April 1, 2003, 7:31]
E-Learning centres planned for nurses
News The University of Ulster has been selected as one of three UK universities to deliver an e-learning centre for qualified nurses, enabling them to further their qualifications online. The e-nursing centre will complement the existing online...
[April 25, 2001, 7:08]
Lacey's Paper Round
News Paul Allen - co-founder of Microsoft - has just given Oxford University three hundred grand to launch an online post graduate degree course, an American company has raised $52 million to make spherical processors, and a Netscape founder is...
[July 27, 1998, 8:59]
Secret Service probes university hackings
News It's been known that university systems have long been a haven for hackers and online vandals. A month ago, agents with the US Secret Service notified Arizona State University officials that some of their computers may have been compromised, said...
[June 21, 2002, 8:47]
University Offers Improved E-Mail Solution and Strengthens Community With Collaboration Tools
White Papers The university chose Microsoft Live@edu, a suite of collaborative services such as free e-mail and a range of other features including instant messaging, online storage space, and blogging. Students and staff are now using Live@edu to build...
[July 25, 2009, 1:18]
University Uses Hosted Filtering Solution to Reduce Spam by 85 Percent
White Papers Edinburgh Napier University wanted to improve its system of filtering e-mail messages. The university's IT staff were creating manual rules to block spam, an effort that generated too many false positives and was not the most productive use of...
[July 27, 2009, 1:20]
Developing Portal-Based E-Learning
White Papers New Zealand's University of Waikato offered a rapidly increasing number of e-learning systems and applications, including a learning management system, online assessments, online enrollment, two legacy portals used in different areas of the...
[September 11, 2008, 1:01]
Supreme Court refuses to hear spam challenge
News The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from an online dating service that claimed it had the right to send unsolicited emails to thousands of University of Texas email accounts. In 2003, the University of Texas blocked thousands...
[January 10, 2006, 9:10]
Workplace gaming could benefit firms
News BBC Online reported on Friday that scientists at the University of Utrecht has found that playing computer game at work can improve an employee's job satisfaction and cut absenteeism. The University of Utrecht scientists now hope to repeat the...
[November 7, 2003, 16:30]
Anti-cybercrime centre opens for research
News The Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT), which is located at Queen's University Belfast, will develop systems designed both to protect people's physical security and to secure their information and data.
[September 24, 2009, 9:58]
