More than 1200 'learning objects' drawn from Toolbox materials designed to support the delivery of vocational and technical education (VTE) qualifications are now available for download from a new repository. The Toolbox Learning Object Repository is a searchable database of 'learning objects' that has been made available by the Flexible Learning Toolbox Project of the national training system's e-learning strategy,…
Monthly Archives May 2006
EVERY Victorian school and TAFE student will be given an academic identification number to track their performance and better help students with literacy and numeracy problems.
MIT and Energy for a rapidly evolving world. “The numbers are overwhelming,” Henry Jacoby tells us in his overview of the final forum panel. The U.S. consumes one-quarter of the world’s energy and emits one-quarter of the world’s carbon dioxide. The combined population of India and China is nine times that of the U.S., so what will happen as they approach our…
Using MySQL on a Mac. For many Macintosh users, the relational database is first and last encountered through recent versions of FileMaker Pro. While Windows users have long utilized Microsoft Access, there has never been an equivalent product included in the Mac version of Microsoft Office. Since the move to Mac OS X and its BSD underpinnings, however, several of…
The McIntire School of Commerce held its seventh annual fall symposium on Friday, Sept. 29 in Old Cabell Hall. The School's symposia, organized by its Center for Growth Enterprises, each year examines the complex nature and origins of organizational success. "With every symposium, we work to facilitate compelling, multidimensional discussions of timely and important issues," said McIntire Dean Carl Zeithaml.…
Jim Moore's beautiful and warm observations of the passing of a giant of our times.. John Kenneth Galbraith was not only a beloved economist,he was also a local whose towering strides, slowing as he aged, were a common site on Church Street, Brattle Street, and in and around Harvard Square. There was something enormously calming about his presence, and something reassuring about seeing…