Libraries at the Cutting Edge

“The trendiest meeting place on many college campuses these days features a coffee bar, wireless Internet zones, free entertainment and special programs, modern lounge areas and meeting rooms.

And free access to books. Lots of books.

This educational social hub is the campus library, which is beginning to look more like an Internet cafe than the academic library you remember from your college days.”

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Virtual reality: Online courses bring local schools into new era of instruction

“In the Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD, technology department leaders say their district is at the beginning of a new wave of thinking about technology and education using iPods for learning, curriculum that includes the use of laptop computers and even virtual classrooms for some subjects.”

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