Blog Archive 2004

In e-Learning and the Science of Instruction authors Ruth Colvin Clark and Richard E. Mayer offer essential information and guidelines for selecting, designing, and developing e-learning courses that build knowledge and skills for workers learning in corporate, government, and academic settings.

With ubiquitous student access to the Internet, plagiarism has never been easier. To help the university maintain academic integrity, a CITS research team is developing an improved open-source system to counter student plagiarism.

Just in time for election season, a CITS team is developing an online multi-media tool to stimulate active learning about campaign financing and regulation of congressional and other federal campaigns.

CITS is happy to announce the addition of three new members to its faculty steering committee. Professors Ronald Rice of Communication, Jennifer Earl of Sociology and Lisa Parks of Film Studies are the latest additions to an eight member committee.

A new CITS study is tackling questions raised by the flow of technology into college classrooms. The project, which has recently been funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, examines effects of audiovisual recording of lectures, online assignments and exams, virtual sections and study groups, and other new technologies.

Message from the Director Bruce Bimber

I received a call recently from a host at Radio National, one of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s fine national news programs. She asked if I would explain the controversy in the U.S. over electronic voting machines.

Professor Parks sketches some preliminary ways of conceptualizing movement at the interface across disciplinary borders and in relation to specific semiotic and material conditions articulated through and beyond the screen.

A multi-disciplinary team of researchers affiliated with CITS will soon launch a three-year study of the ways that new technologies affect people’s participation in public groups.

One of the true fathers of the Internet Dr. Vinton Cerf will be the featured speaker of the Life Online Distinguished Speaker Series May 3, 2004.

Message from the Director Bruce Bimber

The technologies of the Internet have become sufficiently pervasive that their implications reach almost everywhere physically and conceptually: into culture, identity, art, economics, politics, recreation, war, and more.