There are no grades to be earned in a new online course offered by the University of Illinois Springfield. No credit is given. And participants can begin in the middle of the course or wherever they please.
But after four days of registration, more than 2,000 people from more than 50 countries had signed up for the “MOOC” — Massive Open Online Course — that will focus on the topic “Online Learning Today … and Tomorrow.”
So — other than the fact the course is free — what’s the attraction?
“It allows people to dig deeply into one part or learn broadly across a topic,” said Ray Schroeder, director of the UIS Center for Online Learning, Research and Service, or COLRS. “It will build a network of people interested in this topic, or part of it.”
The MOOC was featured in an June 25, 2011, article in The State Journal-Register.
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Monday, June 27, 2011
City officials have land appraised for completion of 11th St. extension
Springfield Mayor Mike Houston said Friday the city has an appraisal of land it wishes to purchase from a local company to allow completion of 11th Street south of Stevenson Drive.
“That is something that has needed to be done for some years,” Houston said of the potential extension of the road to the area of the University of Illinois Springfield.
The mayor said negotiations continue with the property owner, Contech Construction Products. And while he could not say how long talks might take for purchase of the land, which is to be done with federal money, he did say eventual completion of the 11th Street project is needed.
The project was featured in an June 25, 2011, article in The State Journal-Register.
Read the article online
“That is something that has needed to be done for some years,” Houston said of the potential extension of the road to the area of the University of Illinois Springfield.
The mayor said negotiations continue with the property owner, Contech Construction Products. And while he could not say how long talks might take for purchase of the land, which is to be done with federal money, he did say eventual completion of the 11th Street project is needed.
The project was featured in an June 25, 2011, article in The State Journal-Register.
Read the article online
Historians won't convict Lincoln for suspension of habeas corpus
The difference between George W. Bush and Abraham Lincoln, of course, is that while Bush suspended habeas corpus for "aliens detained by the United States," Lincoln did so for American citizens. Habeas corpus is a person's right to challenge in court the legality of his imprisonment.
Perhaps it is too soon for history to judge Bush's action, but historians have reached a verdict on Lincoln's, says Michael Burlingame, the Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield, and the author of "Abraham Lincoln: A Life," which is considered the definitive work on the 16th president.
Burlingame was featured in an June 26, 2011 article by The Day in Connecticut.
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Perhaps it is too soon for history to judge Bush's action, but historians have reached a verdict on Lincoln's, says Michael Burlingame, the Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield, and the author of "Abraham Lincoln: A Life," which is considered the definitive work on the 16th president.
Burlingame was featured in an June 26, 2011 article by The Day in Connecticut.
Read the article online
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