North America
US: Illinois Expands Virtual School Program
Virtual Reality: Class Always in Session
By Catharine Schaidle, Peoria Journal Star
3/21/09
In preparation for a pharmacology program at a university, Jeremy Hubbard, a senior at Tremont High School, is taking an online class in medical terminology.
“This course is not offered in school, so I take it online,” Hubbard said Friday. “It’s great because the hours are flexible, and so I do it whenever I have a free period. I can even do it from home.”
Beverly Li takes a physics class online, not because Tremont doesn’t offer it, “but because the regular class doesn’t fit into my schedule.”
US: MIT to Make Faculty Research Freely Available
MIT Will Publish All Faculty Articles Free In Online Repository
By Natasha Plotkin, The Tech
3/20/09
Faculty voted unanimously this week to approve a resolution that allows MIT to freely and publicly distribute research articles they write. MIT plans to create a repository to make these articles available online.
The resolution, effective immediately after it was passed on Wednesday, makes MIT the first university to commit to making its faculty’s research papers publicly available. Though the School of Education at Stanford and several departments at Harvard have already adopted these policies, MIT is the first entire university to make this pledge.
