(07-15) 11:39 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- The University of California Board of Regents reacted enthusiastically Wednesday to developing a fully online undergraduate degree program at the top-tier research institution they oversee, and endorsed a pilot program to test it.
AUSTRALIANS aged 16 and 17 are spending an average of 3½ hours every day on the internet, new research reveals, with social networking the overwhelming favourite reason.
College life may look different in the not-so-distant future: Students squinting out dirtier windows, faculty offices with full wastebaskets and no phones, sporting events in which opponents never meet, and paper course catalogs existing only as artifacts of the wasteful old days …
A WEBSITE to allow parents to compare their children's school with other similar schools will be launched this year after education ministers agreed to make a range of school performance and population data public.
Facebook celebrates its fifth birthday this week and the company has much to crow about, as new figures reveal the social network has twice as many monthly users in Australia as its nearest competitor, MySpace.
My final photo is made up of 220 Canon G10 images and the file is 59,783 X 24,658 pixels or 1,474 megapixels. It took more than six and a half hours for the Gigapan software to put together all of the images on my Macbook Pro and the completed TIF file is almost 2 gigabytes.
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Christakis said many teens are unaware of how public and permanent Internet information can be, while parents often do not know what their kids are up to. "No one says, "Whoa! Why are you putting that up there?'" Christakis said. In a second study, the researchers identified 19 …
A PILOT program in which teenagers used iPods for school work has increased attendance and increased enthusiasm for homework.
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