[LINK] assorted news: broadband, free articles, virtual lectures from the world

[Jan Whitaker]

from: Fwd: [highered_update] Higher Education Update - an edna 
newsletter,  Issue 4 2008  ISSN 1449-0552

>High-speed broadband by year's end: Conroy
>http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/12/2187320.htm
>Federal Communications Minister Stephen Conroy says a high-speed 
>broadband network is on track to be working by the end of the year.
>ABC News, 12 March 2008


>MIT, Elsevier offer free content from more than 2,000 journals
>http://url.edna.edu.au/syD4
>In a move to encourage open education, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) and 
>Elsevier have agreed to make available figures and text selections 
>from any of Elsevier's more than 2,000 journal titles for use on 
>OCW. As a result of this landmark agreement, select Elsevier content 
>can now be included within the open access OCW course materials - to 
>be freely downloaded, used and shared under a Creative Commons license.
>OCWC, March 2008
>
>The virtual lecture hall is now a reality
>http://www.pr.com/press-release/75539
>If you never had the opportunity to attend Princeton or Yale, higher 
>learning is now just a mouse click away. The world's first online 
>public university is now a reality, and anyone with an internet 
>connection can easily access various lectures from universities 
>around the world from the comfort of their home. This ambitious 
>project is the brainchild of a 26-year-old university student from 
>Aarhus, Denmark.
>PR.com, 7 March 2008





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