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Good summary of the expectations of today's college students

Article talks about how RIAA can have the federal government issue subpoenas by simply making allegations of infringement and requiring University administrators to turn over the IP address owners of the guilty parties. This ability conflicts with peoples' right to be assumed innocent until proven guilty. To fight this, the adminstrators are shuffling IP addresses among different individuals regularly so that they can honestly say that they have no identifying information to provide.

I think that this website is a great online tool for searching for colleges.

Article discusses how the RIAA is issuing letters to suspected copyright infringing music downloaders and sharers and asking them to turn themselves in and pay a reduced fine, which will still be in the thousands of dollars, or else they will sue them for all they have or might ever have. Lawyer from University of Southern California talks about how letters are actually just "cease and desist letters" and that suspected offenders might not want to turn themselves in because the RIAA might not be able to find out their identities otherwise since many schools ISP's are not keeping track of or releasing students' names, personally identifiable IP addresses, or other information.

Good article about communicating with college students

High school students in West Tennessee can attend college classes while staying close to home. These students are not engaging in a typical online course through interactive technology these students are taking online classes to another level.

Good article about federal & state regulation of online education

Very thought-provoking article about the role of the Internet in the future of higher education.

A start at the understanding of the varying use of the internet by race.

I found this site a few months ago when we discussing this topic. I found it very interesting that there is still a gap between the different races. In reading what the Pew team found and what this one did, it was very interesting.

Good research study about the importance of social presence to student success in online courses.

This seems really bad for higher education (IMHO).

Great to see the State of Washington embracing Open Educational Resources!

A look into the (near) future of technology on campus

This article relates to class discussions on social media and the classroom. It was in yesterday's Wall Street Journal's Personal Journal section. Major corporations are turning to universities and colleges to reach a younger, tech saavy generation to market their products. Instructors are anxious to work with these companies to let their students gain experience and knowledge of marketing with the new technologies.

This is an article which discusses campuses in Massachusetts that want to have emergency alerts sent to students after the attacks on the Virginia Tech campus.