Association for India's Development is a volunteer movement promoting sustainable, equitable and just development. AID supports grassroots organizations in...

Gandhinagar: Beating the slowdown trend, over 20 companies are participating in this year's campus recruitment programme of the Institute of Petroleum Management Gandhinagar (IPMG), which began on Monday. Organisers said eight companies, including Indian Oil Corp, Hindustan Petroleum Corp, and c...

Kolkata: He is the eldest son of illustrious Indian magician P.C. Sorcar. But unlike his father, Manick Sorcar chose to weave magic with animation and laser. After devoting 17 years to animation and laser, Colorado-based Sorcar wants to take forward his passion and set up an institute in Kolkata. ...

<br><b>Abstract:</b> This study reports the evaluation results of using a learning management system (LMS) in a computer literacy course. The goal of the present study was to explore the usefulness of content delivery and how it helped students in learning computing skills. Using Blackboard as the LMS, 145 undergraduate college students enrolled in a computer literacy course in a large southwestern university responded to an online survey and seven instructors who taught the course were surveyed over email to determine value and usefulness of the features in the environment.Overall, assignments, course documents and gradebook were reported as the most useful features. Immediate feedback on quizzes, accessing the materials at all times, and getting comfortable in use of technology were rated as most helpful areas. Both students and instructors responded positively to the LMS experience and provided evidence that numerous learning outcomes can be enhanced by the presence of such a system. <br><br><b> Keywords: </b> learning management system, Blackboard, computer literacy, blended learning.

This interactive tutorial explores how changes to the incident angle and refractive index differential between two dissimilar media affect the refraction angle of light at the interface.

Great website for writers of all ages. This site was created by teachers with the goal of helping their students better understand groups of words that are often confused for each other in student writings.

This is a GSI workshop powerpoint presentation and exercise in learning to use MERLOT in teaching at the University of Michigan. Although specifically designed for psychology, the instructional material may be supportive to any educational discipline.

Rome Reborn is an international initiative whose gol is the creation of 3D digital models illustrating the urban development of anicent Rome from the first settlement in the late Bronze Age(ca. 1000 B.C.) to its depopulation in the early Middle Ages (ca. A.D. 550). The site currently presents Rome at A.D. 320. The site is a collaboration with IATH at the University of Virginia, the UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory, the UCLA Experiential Technology Center, the Reverse Engineering Lab at the Politecnico di Milano, the Ausonius Institute of the CNRS and the University of Bordeaux-3, and the University of Caen.

Cancer Control P.L.A.N.E.T (Plan, Link, Act, Network with Evidence-based Tools) is a website with links to "comprehensive cancer control resources for public health professionals." The web site is sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and the Commission on Cancer (CoC).

"This peer-reviewed journal contains articles on the spectrum of actions and approaches needed to reduce the impact of human malignancy".

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From UIPUI’s 2008 Assessment Institute conference and only available until 10/2009. This Keynote by Sharon J. Hamilton gives a good overview of ePortfolios and where they are in terms of adoption and applicability to current trends. These trends include the increased request for assessment and the repercussions of the Spellings report.

Excellent tutorial for PHP and SQL for information professionals working with web interfaces for online databases