The heavyweight champion among Expert Voices blogs has returned for another semester. “Networks” is a course in economics, sociology, and information science at Cornell taught by David Easley and Jon Kleinberg. Its subject is how the social, technological, and natural worlds are connected, and how the study of networks sheds light on these […]

A pioneer in the online delivery of educational resources has found a new home. Earlier this month, the National Science Foundation announced that the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) will maintain the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE). DLESE is the leading resource for online geoscience education. It predates NSDL by […]

Three court decisions and a new law made 2007 a very good year for teachers who want the freedom to use whatever they want in their classrooms. In a paper released last month, Jonathan Band explains recent legal decisions that permit extensive copying and display of copyrighted material on commercial sites because the uses involve […]