Caffeine buzz
A company in Arizona is using leading-edge technologies to develop software for running colleges and universities. Buzzeo (www.buzzeo.com) used Neuron Data's Elements Advisor to develop its ZEOLogix...
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US campuses act to avoid violation of privacy laws
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....
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Pounds 1/3 m for pinpointed courses
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...
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Phone alone
(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...
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Yorkshire MAN speeds info ahead of time
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...
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Express delivery for the just enough generation
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...
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Running with the web-enabled rat pack
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...
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Swing from ape to tape in a different kind of jungle
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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Life, the universe and Marx
LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND MATHEMATICS. Virtual Image +44 161 480 1915. Single home user Pounds 24.95, educational site licence Pounds 49.50 inc VAT. Windows CD There cannot be many other CDs offering...
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Economics shackles info-poor
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...
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Right steps on the ladder of learning
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...
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Block on chip and fishing thefts
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...
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Branching out
(Photograph) - Bob Fryer, chair of the government's national advisory committee for continuing education and lifelong learning, will be director of University of Southampton New College and director...
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Making utensils provided man tools of thought
A news round-up from the third conference on consciousness in Tucson, Arizona The making of artefacts by early man played a key role in the emergence of human consciousness, an archaeologist claims....
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Diffuse consciousness
A news round-up from the third conference on consciousness in Tucson, Arizona There may be no central part of the human brain receiving signals from specialist areas and integrating them to generate...