Liverpool University and Dutch learning specialist, K.I.T have launched an online Masters degree aimed at giving business men and women a solid grounding in IT. The course is based around distance learning modules available for download over the...
Today's celebrities tend to come from the worlds of entertainment and sport but if online e-learning evolves in the way some IT companies are hoping then professors may well become the rock 'n' roll stars of the future.
Efford said the course will cover areas such as modelling threats and vulnerabilities of software, design principles and coding techniques. Depending on how the course develops, it could be expanded to a masters degree and developing distance...
Certainly, there is little reason to suppose that the voguish application of business principles to universities will achieve it. But, says Martin Brampton, children need to be provided with the generic learning and language skills needed to adapt...
A majority (61 per cent) said their strategies were aligned to a fair degree or better. The poll also revealed that companies aren't doing all they could to align their IT outsourcing and business strategies.
The role of the teacher is still fundamental to learning, Gates stressed, but more effort must be put into training teachers in IT - and more tools must be created for them - for instance software which could help them create curriculum from...