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Distance learning enrollment spikes
Enrollment in online classes offered by Florida's colleges and
universities has spiked amid increased interest in distance
learning, officials said. Some schools are adding more Internet
course sections in subjects from sociology to biology, and
students are rushing to fill the slots, The Tampa (Fla.) Tribune
reported Sunday. The high price of gasoline and the limited
number of classroom seats -- since some schools have made budget
cuts -- have contributed to the appeal of distance learning, the
newspaper said. At Hillsborough Community College, online
enrollment this summer increased 36 percent from last year.
"I don't think HCC has yet reached our potential for distance-
learning demand," said Chad Hyatt, the school's director of
instructional technology. Since online courses require no new
classrooms, the offerings are appealing to administrators.
To take advantage of the special course offerings, students
pay distance learning fees.
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Source of Arctic Northern lights revealed
U.S. scientists working with NASA said they've uncovered the
source of substorms in space that fuel the explosive energy
behind the northern lights. Vassilis Angelopoulos, a professor
at the University of California, Los Angeles and lead
investigator of the NASA-funded mission known as THEMIS -- Time
History of Events and Macroscale Interactions, said the energy
comes from magnetic fields. "Our data show clearly and for the
first time that magnetic reconnection is the trigger,"
Angelopoulos said in a statement. "Reconnection results in a
slingshot acceleration of waves and plasma along magnetic field
lines, lighting up the aurora underneath even before the near-
Earth space has had a chance to respond. We are providing the
evidence that this is happening." The energy release is responsible
for the brightening of the aurora borealis or northern lights.
The substorms also wreak havoc on satellites, power grids and
communications systems, UCLA said. The findings are published in
the journal Science
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No gender gap noted in math scores
A U.S. study found that girls have closed the gender gap in
math performance. Researchers from the University of Wisconsin
at Madison and University of California, Berkeley, studied SAT
results and math scores from 7 million students and found that
girls are just as good at math as boys. "There just aren't
gender differences anymore in math performance," study leader
Janet Hyde, a psychology professor at UW-Madison, said in a
statement. "So parents and teachers need to revise their
thoughts about this." The findings are published in the journal
Science. Hyde said cultural beliefs that women aren't as good
as men at math can have an impact on classroom performance.
"Because if your mom or your teacher thinks you can't do math,
that can have a big impact on your math self concept," she said.
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