IT Trends :: Thursday, May 25, 2006
Correction: My column last week relied on a Christian Science Monitor article that inaccurately described the University of Michigan Law School's classroom Internet access. The law school has not "banned" the Internet from classrooms, it has just put technology in place that permits individual faculty to prevent or allow its use as they see fit. We'll be reporting about some more advanced work to use the Internet in law school classrooms from Michigan Law in the near future.
Opinion
Dark Web or Net Neutrality. Do Something About It?
By Terry Calhoun
I was going to write this week about seeming parallels between the spread of monocultures of food plants by big agriculture and what’s happened in the past ten years with Learning Management Systems (LMS), but a couple of timely news items captured my attention. Instead I am going to urge you to do something to help preserve Net Neutrality and fend off the Dark Web.
If you don’t want to read any further, then the gist of my opinion this week is that right now is a fairly critical time for higher education institutions with regard to the next ten years of the Internet. It would be very helpful if you view this and the accompanying information about how to communicate with your federal legislators. Take a moment to do so. That way, you can be doing something about an important issue.
If you want to learn a little more about the debate, along the same lines that I have been learning, then read on!...
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IT News
NU Advises Players to Exercise Vigilance in Internet Postings
Northwestern's women's soccer team's hazing rituals were recently exposed...
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Trial Run with Net Teaching Has Some Faculty Nervous
California State University, Stanislaus, is launching eCollege for the summer semester...
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It's All About Me: Why E-mails Are So Easily Misunderstood
Two professors are researching the most common problems in virtual communication...
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IUSA Plans Downloading Services
The reigning student government party at Indiana University promised students a legal media downloading service...
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Deals, Contracts, Awards
Unisys and University Collaborate on IT Project
The University of California Irvine's Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences is teaming up with Unisys Corp. to develop...
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Universities Band to Push for More Diverse IT Field
With as many as 1.5 million new IT jobs opening in the next six years, the field could become more available for women and minorities…
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New Technology
Big Brother on Campus: Cell Phone-GPS Combo to Track Students' Whereabouts
Rave Wireless' new Guardian system allows students to activate a signal on their cell phones when they feel unsafe...
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Universities Focus on New Technology as Landlines Disappear
As personal technology needs change, some schools are scrambling to provide their students with affordable, yet trendy options...
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High-Tech Cure for the Munchies, 24/7
College cafeterias can only make money when they're open (and few are open around the clock)...
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Open Source Automates College Net Security
To keep their network secure, a pair of IT employees at Middlebury College used PHP to develop a new program called Privateye...
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