Internet opens elite colleges to all
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Gilbert Strang is a quiet man with a rare talent: helping others understand linear algebra. He's written a half-dozen popular college textbooks, and for years a few hundred students at the elite Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been privileged to take his course.
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A technology known as an audience response system is spreading to public and private schools across the country.
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It bills itself as the world's "most prestigious college discussion board," giving a glimpse into law school admissions policies, post-graduate social networking and the hiring practices of major law firms.
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Thefacebook.com, a Web site that began 10 months ago, is now the most popular way to either network or waste time for a million college students.
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Half a million American children take classes online, and many are attending virtual public schools that are competing with local districts for millions in public dollars.
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Facebook, the popular social networking Web site that has mainly focused on college students, is preparing to open its membership to everyone.
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Glut of Internet info has changed higher education  Your article on college plagiarism (Hampton Roads, March 5) touched on an issue that is radically changing the terrain of higher education: the staggering amount of information available through the Internet.
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One of the best things I like about the Internet is the boundary-less nature of this amazing network. I can check out user views of people (from here in India) around the world on the India issues.
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West Virginia Wesleyan has joined a small group of colleges and universities with their own MySpace pages on the Internet.   School officials made the announcement this week.
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CollegeHotList.com, the most comprehensive, innovative social networking  site designed exclusively "for college  students by college students," officially  launches today.
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One Day University gives students a chance to hear lectures from four top universities without homework, tests or an admissions process that goes beyond writing a check.
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Interactive recruiting firm TargetX is making it possible for colleges  to host social networks that resemble MySpace or Facebook so prospective  students can come together online.
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LONDON - The number of newcomers to the internet in Britain has surged this year to its highest level since the dotcom heyday of 2001, according to a study.
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MIT intends to reach an epic milestone soon: By the end of the year, its entire curriculum should be available online for free.
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With so much traffic in cyberspace, it's about time someone blazed a direct trail to the internet.
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JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia  - The atmosphere on the King Abdullah campus should be that of a high-quality college anywhere else in the world -- a mood of free thought, equality and easy mingling among independent-minded men and women.
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Cisco's new digital media system -- unveiled this week -- is already winning praise from one early adopter, a university in London that is using it to provide students with access to rich media.