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Monday, August 28
It wasn't that long ago that a major part of going to college meant showing up in a classroom and taking copious notes by hand, while professors spelled out the finer points of a course by writing on a chalkboard. These days, the lowly chalkboard has been replaced by a big screen computer monitor in some college classrooms and students around the world participate online, in real time. NPR's Guy Raz reports on how college professors are adapting their  teaching methods to an Internet world. With course notes online and some
professors even replacing themselves with CD-ROMs, the changes have been
tougher on the teachers than the students.
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Tuesday, August 29
California State University, Dominguez Hills, is a nondescript little commuter college, about an hour's drive southeast of Los Angeles. It sits in a region that was once the hotbed of the defense industry. But with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the decline of the defense industry and the rise of Internet use, college officials looked elsewhere for students and turned its quality assurance degree program into its first online offering. The school now has five degree programs online. NPR's Ina Jaffee reports on how two busy older students are benefitting from Internet classrooms.
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Wednesday, August 30
Use of the Internet for education has been a boon for many, but it has revolutionized learning for one group handicapped by frequent moves. The children of migrant workers in Eagle Pass, Texas, pack up and head with their families to points across America, to wherever the work is.
NPR's Claudio Sanchez talks to some migrant families about their lives, and how The Laptop Project has intervened for some south Texas teenagers.
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Links & Resources, August 28:
University of Illinois
www.uillinois.edu
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
www.uiuc.edu
University of Illinois Online
www.online.uillinois.edu
Web site of Burkes Oakley, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Illinois
www.online.uillinois.edu/oakley
Web site of Hassan Aref, Professor and Head of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
www.tam.uiuc.edu/Faculty/Aref.html
Web site of Barry Lewis, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
www.staff.uiuc.edu/~blewis
Web site of Nicholas C. Burbules, Professor, Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
www.ed.uiuc.edu/facstaff/burbules/NickB.html
The Daily Illini Online, the student newspaper of the University of Illinois.
www.dailyillini.com
Links & Resources, August 29:
California State University, Dominguez Hills
www.csudh.edu
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Online Division
www.csudh.edu/dominguezonline
California State University, Dominguez Hills - Online Masters program in Behavioral Science, Negotiation and Conflict Managerment
http://www.csudh.edu/dominguezonline/beh.htm
California State University, Dominguez Hills - Online Bachelor of Science program, Nursing
http://www.csudh.edu/dominguezonline/bsn.htmm
Links & Resources, August 30:
NovaNET is a computer-based education and communications network that offers thousands of hours of self-paced, interactive curriculum for secondary and adult learners.
www.novanet.com
Eagle Pass Independent School District
www.eagle-pass.k12.tx.us
The Illinois Migrant Council, (IMC), is a private, non-profit statewide community-based organization whose purpose is to provide opportunities for migrant and seasonal farm workers and other low-income families to achieve economic self-sufficiency.
www.crystallakenet.org
Estrella is designed to address the educational needs of migrant farmworker youth, including middle and high school students, youth currently out of school, and those in transition
between school and higher education or the workplace.
www.estrella.org/sites/imc.htm
Texas Education Agency
www.tea.state.tx.us
The Texas Education Agency's Division of Migrant Education
www.tea.state.tx.us/migrants
U.S. Department of Education, Office of Migrant Education
www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/MEP/
The Changing Face of America is an 18-month long NPR project that tells the stories of regular, everyday Americans and the issues they face at a time of rapid and dramatic change in the U.S. This special series can be heard on NPR's Talk of the Nation, All Things Considered and Morning Edition.
The Changing Face of America series is sponsored by
The Pew Charitable
Trusts.
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