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Do online charter schools measure up?

December 15, 2015October 30, 2015 by By Laura Devaney, Director of News, <a href='https://twitter.com/esn_laura' target='_blank'>@eSN_Laura</a>

New research offers evidence that online charter schools post weaker academic performance and struggle more to maintain student engagement than their conventional brick-and-mortar peers. The National Study of…

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Experts: UVa.’s Coursera partnership far from an embrace of online learning

July 18, 2012July 18, 2012 by Denny Carter

The University of Virginia will make four of its courses available for free online in 2013 after the campus’s governing board last month cited a lack of web-based…

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Colleges appeal to students with green policies

April 20, 2010April 19, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

Small private colleges and large research universities alike have adopted green policies in recent years in an effort to trim energy bills, encourage sustainability, and lure environmentally conscious…

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New application could make all software ‘open source’

November 5, 2013April 1, 2010 by Staff and wire services reports

Imagine controlling Apple iTunes from inside Microsoft Word without having to switch applications. That could be possible, PC World reports, thanks to the efforts of researchers at the…