By Karen Vignare
Blended learning is the “new” buzz in higher education. Many educational researchers have discovered that online learning environments are particularly useful for communications and collaboration. When you add in management and administrative tools available in most course management systems today online learning environments are fairly robust. But giving up the classroom seems a [...]

The Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) publishes a report on trends in seven key areas affecting higher education: demographics, economy, environment, global education, learning, politics, and technology.
The report is free and available to public in a PDF format at http://www.scup.org/knowledge/ttw.html.
The report is compiled by SCUP’s director of planning and education, Phyllis T. H. [...]

The Circuit, the voice for Cincinnati’s IT community, today announced that it has awarded five, $1,000 scholarships to five area students who are pursuing information technology (IT) degrees at area universities. Each will receive the scholarship funds through the university’s financial aid office this fall to assist in furthering their IT education. Three of the [...]

Introduction & History
Every year, the Houston chapter of the Association for Women in Computing (AWC-Houston) awards one or more scholarships to outstanding students pursuing an undergraduate degree in a computer-related field. The actual number of scholarships and the amount(s) depend on fundraising activities held throughout the year. In 2005 AWC-Houston awarded 2 scholarships for $10,000 [...]