The Digging into Data Challenge is an international grant competition sponsored by four leading research agencies, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) from the United Kingdom, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) from the United States, the National Science Foundation (NSF) from the United States, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) from Canada.
Archive for January, 2009
Teachers in training take lessons in virtual classrooms
The latest job being added to the ‘working from home’ list is teacher intern. After seven weeks in the virtual internships, students will spend seven weeks in a traditional classroom so they have both experiences. That will give students flexibility with traditional teaching jobs in Florida, which lately are harder to come by, and with Florida Virtual Schools. Tampa Bay Online, 19 January 2009
Dawn of the cyberstudent | University challenge | guardian.co.uk
Collaborative learning, wikis, virtual classrooms: web 2.0 is transforming higher education, and students are driving the changes. Peter Scott (…) predicts that students will soon be mixing their higher education experiences from resources all over the world, choosing to study at Harvard, say, while listening to lectures from Oxford, taking part in discussion groups at the University of Mumbai, and sitting exams somewhere entirely different. Guardian, January 2009
CComments invited: Consultation draft of the digital economy future directions
The Government is working with business and other stakeholders on the future of Australia’s digital economy. Following a series of meetings, the Department is developing a directions paper for the future of the digital economy. The paper will include the role of stakeholders in ensuring that the Government’s digital economy initiatives are maximised. Submissions by before Wednesday 11 February 2008. Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, January 2009