Stanford today announced the largest increase in its financial aid program for undergraduates. Parents with incomes of less than $100,000 will no longer pay tuition.
Parents with incomes of less than $60,000 will not be expected to pay tuition or contribute to the costs of room, board and other expenses. Students will still be expected to contribute their earnings from work during the summer and academic year. The program also eliminates the need for student loans.
This week both Harvard and MIT have chosen to share knowledge for free over the internet. Harvard will begin to freely distribute research via the internet to enhance the speed of online learning. The details for publishing content by faculty has already been distributed and only technical work needs to be finished. A projected opening date is set for early April.
MIT‘s OpenCourseWare project has now been extended to reach High School students. The OCW site for high school students provides audio and video lectures along with class assignments from almost 2,000 courses taught at MIT. Over 5,000 high school students already visit the OCW site monthly. Resources include content designed for teachers.allowing them to repurpose knowledge in their classrooms.
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If a picture says a thousand words….
China’s consumer market will gain even more attention from America as the 2008 Olympic Games begin in only 187 days from today! Every company around the globe wants to tap into this huge market.Tags: Walmart, China, consumer marketplace, globalization, economic development, trends
Nicholas Negroponte’s presentation of the American Academy for the Advancement of Sciences revealed production of his OLPC units have surpassed 110,000/month. The conference theme is “Science and Technology from a Global Perspective” is underway in Boston this week.
He has also projected next year the price will drop to $100/unit, the original price tag when the project began…and should drop to just $50 in 2011.
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Bucks County PA has been getting attention by driving Internet2 into schools to better prepare their students for their networked futures. As reported by campustechnology.com has a new article about their community college‘s upgrade to take advantage of Internet2’s video conferencing capabilities and the switch from IPv4 to the emerging IPv6. They have also migrated their email system to Google’s free Gmail service for education.
Tags: Internet2, network, Bucks County, Community College, globalization, open source, economic development, trends