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| Category: | Start / Accreditation | | Description: | The Distance Learning Accreditation Board (DLAB) is a service of its parent, the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA). DLAB officially commenced its activities in December 2004.
Since its founding in 1987, USDLA has consistently emphasized the importance of professional growth within the distance education community. The DLAB program is a logical next step toward that goal, both by advancing the industry and enhancing USDLA. | | hits: | 6771 | | Added on: | 07-Jun-2006 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Accreditation | | Description: | The Distance Education and Training Council has been the standard-setting agency for correspondence study and distance education institutions since it was established in 1926. Its purpose was, and still is today, "to foster and preserve high quality, educationally sound and widely accepted distance education and independent learning institutions."
The DETC Accrediting Commission performs the institutional accrediting functions of the DETC. DETC member institutions offer more than 500 different academic, vocational, and avocational courses by mail or by telecommunications.
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| Category: | Start / Accreditation | | Description: | The Distance Education and Training Council (formerly the National Home Study Council) is a non-profit [301(3)(6)] educational association located in Washington, D.C. The association also sponsors a nationally recognized accrediting agency called the "Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council."
The Council was founded in 1926 to promote sound educational standards and ethical business practices within the correspondence field. Following is an interview with Mr. Michael Lambert, Executive Director, Distance Education and Training Councilby Dr. Saba
| | hits: | 2870 | | Added on: | 07-Jun-2006 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Accessibility Guidelines | | Description: | The web has been a boon to the free flow of information, for some people. For others, accessing web-based information has been and in some cases needlessly continues to be a frustrating and nearly impossible endeavor. Changes to the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act require campus websites to be accessible to people with disabilities. These laws say that access to web-based or other technologically mediated communication is a right for everyone, regardless of any disability.
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| Category: | Start / Accreditation | | Description: | The accrediting organizations identified in this directory are recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA). Recognition by CHEA affirms that the standards and processes of the accrediting organization are consistent with the academic quality, improvement and accountability expectations that CHEA has established, including the eligibility standard that the majority of institutions or programs each accredits are degree-granting.
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| | hits: | 2815 | | Added on: | 07-Jun-2006 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Jobs | | Description: | This is a great place to begin looking for open positions in the higher education field. | | hits: | 2806 | | Added on: | 20-May-2001 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Academic Publications | | Description: | News About Accreditation, And Diploma Mills By Dr. John Bear At Degree.net
| | hits: | 2792 | | Added on: | 07-Jun-2006 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Academic Publications | | Description: | Welcome to Fresno State's Web Accessibility site. Information, tools and resources for implementing Web accessibility. | | hits: | 2725 | | Added on: | 05-Jun-2006 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Podcasting | | Description: | Everyone loves quizzes and iPodQuizMaker software provides an easy to use wizard to produce multiple-choice quizzes that can be used in your courses or just for fun. The software allows you to include hot links to video, or sound files all from their iPod.
The latest version of the software provides you with an opportunity to monetize your quizzes by allowing to you package them in the 'hyperbook' format that can be published/distributed to learners/customers through online stores like Distance-Educator.com or eBay.
The "PodQuizzes" produced using this software provides support for iPod's interactive functionality. And the engine embedded in the 'hyperBook' enhances these capabilities. The greatest thing is you don't have to be a programmer to create your quizzes -- but don't take my word for it -- download the free trial and see for yourself. | | hits: | 2547 | | Added on: | 05-Jun-2007 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Research | | Description: | This site indexes online dictionaries, thesauruses, and other word references. They offer an instant word lookup, word of the day service,and the top ten language dictionaries! This is a must see site when you have to do research. | | hits: | 1988 | | Added on: | 17-May-2001 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Software Providers | | Description: | Author e-learning courses quickly and easily with pre-built navigation, SCORM-based tracking, bookmarking and storyboards. Get the HTML and JavaScript that you need to build your next e-learning course. | | hits: | 1877 | | Added on: | 13-Jan-2004 | | Rating: | 10.0 (1 Vote) |  | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Building Virtual Communities | | Description: | We're often asked how to build online communities since relationships, not atoms or electrons, are the building blocks. And we have one answer, read this book! | | hits: | 1801 | | Added on: | 05-Nov-2001 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Virtual Highschools | | Description: | Florida's goal is to have a full functioning high school online by 2001! We think they are well on their way, why don't you check it out and see what you think. | | hits: | 1780 | | Added on: | 25-May-2001 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Glossaries - Online | | Description: | A comprehensive glossary of words and jargon compiled by UC Berkeley. | | hits: | 1750 | | Added on: | 18-May-2001 | | Rating: | 1.0 (1 Vote) |   | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / eLearning Services & Support | | Description: | Provides guidelines on how to develop an online course. Has a step-by-step guide on how to be able to convert a simple paper course/seminar into an online course/seminar.
| | hits: | 1710 | | Added on: | 13-Jan-2004 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Teaching Tips | | Description: | This resource provides information on the following topics:
- Assessment Techniques
- How People Learn
- Communication
- Human Development
- Motivating Students
- Preparing a Lesson Plan
- Dealing with Stress
- Preparing a Course Syllabus
- Difficult Behaviors
- Teaching Organization
- Teaching Techniques
- Using Questions Effectively
| | hits: | 1679 | | Added on: | 04-Jul-2001 | | Rating: | 10.0 (2 Votes) | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / eLearning Services & Support | | Description: | Leading elearning company providing online interactive courses for professionals like ccna,mcse, web desgining and business management to improve skills. | | hits: | 1636 | | Added on: | 13-Jan-2004 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / eLearning Services & Support | | Description: | Media1st is an interactive education service provider (iESP) that enables enterprises to deliver interactive, media-driven eLearning solutions. | | hits: | 1618 | | Added on: | 20-Apr-2001 | | Rating: | 10.0 (1 Vote) | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Virtual Highschools | | Description: | The project began in 1994 and currently is involved
in two major initiatives. Although the site is a little difficult to navigate if you need to get information about teaching or learning at a virtual high scool in Maryland this is the place to look. | | hits: | 1571 | | Added on: | 25-May-2001 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Learning Objects | | Description: | This paper is a must read and demystifies the term ‘learning objects’ as it pertains to online learning delivery primarily via the Web browser over the Internet/Intranets. | | hits: | 1565 | | Added on: | 24-May-2001 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Conferences | | Description: | Produced by The eLearning Guild, this conference is for eLearning designers, developers and managers who want to maximize learner engagement by developing highly interactive eLearning. It's on July 25 & 26 in San Francisco. The complete program is online... | | hits: | 1564 | | Added on: | 10-Sep-2002 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Instructional Design | | Description: | This guide covers navigation/organizationm style/markup, and links to other agency guides. | | hits: | 1512 | | Added on: | 04-Jul-2001 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / K - 12 | | Description: | Take a stroll through history at this site and go back to the times of the Romans, Vikings, Tudors, Victorians, and the 1950's. | | hits: | 1474 | | Added on: | 21-Apr-2001 | | Rating: | 10.0 (1 Vote) | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Educational Directories | | Description: | KinderStart.com is the Web�s largest index-directory of information about parenting, pregnancy, child development, health, education, learning activities and the wide range of issues related to children seven years and under. | | hits: | 1425 | | Added on: | 24-Apr-2001 | | Rating: | 10.0 (2 Votes) | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Designer Resources | | Description: | Brain Wiring is a colloquial term for the complex interaction among genetics, experience, and biochemistry that takes place in our brains. This site discusses how your personal style of brain wiring affects your life and learning. | | hits: | 1359 | | Added on: | 21-Apr-2001 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Academic Publications | | Description: | The Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks (JALN) is published online by the Sloan Center of OnLine Education (SCOLE) at Olin and Babson Colleges for Sloan-CTM. ISSN 1092-8235 | | hits: | 1313 | | Added on: | 04-Jul-2001 | | Rating: | 10.0 (1 Vote) | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Hardware | | Description: | | | hits: | 1304 | | Added on: | 15-Apr-2001 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Accessibility Guidelines | | Description: | In chapter 6 of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, the authors discuss the details of good search-engine design. | | hits: | 1296 | | Added on: | 05-Apr-2001 | | Rating: | 2.0 (1 Vote) | | Comments: | 1 |
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| Category: | Start / Building Virtual Communities | | Description: | The website for the book: Design for Community, the art of connecting real people in virtual places, by Derek M. Powazek. Virtual community news, excerpts, all-new essays, and conversations about the design of community spaces online. Join the conversation! | | hits: | 1252 | | Added on: | 04-Dec-2001 | | Rating: | 10.0 (1 Vote) | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Designer Resources | | Description: | T his is the book for you after you've learned basic HTML you'll need to understand the issues in running a large site (or, actually, any sites that do something). There is also a website you should check out! | | hits: | 1222 | | Added on: | 21-Apr-2001 | | Rating: | 10.0 (1 Vote) | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Distance Learning | | Description: | ActiveEducation, founded in 1993, offers e-learning and GuideBooks on e-business technologies, such as XML, Java, ASP, WML and HTML, and desktop applications. | | hits: | 1215 | | Added on: | 16-Apr-2001 | | Rating: | 10.0 (1 Vote) | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Government | | Description: | http://digitaldivide.gov/reports.htm
In just about every country, a certain percentage of people has the best information technology that society has to offer. These people have the most powerful computers, the best telephone service and fastest Internet service, as well as a wealth of content and training relevant to their lives.
There is another group of people. They are the people who for one reason or another don’t have access to the newest or best computers, the most reliable telephone service or the fastest or most convenient Internet services. The difference between these two groups of people is what we call the Digital Divide.
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| Category: | Start / Research | | Description: | Do you need to know who represents you in Congress or Senate? Then this is the site for you, just scroll down and plug in your ZIP code. | | hits: | 1213 | | Added on: | 17-May-2001 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Distance Learning | | Description: | This site uses an interactive database to help you evaluate and select an online delivery software. | | hits: | 1211 | | Added on: | 08-Apr-2001 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Government | | Description: | The Encyclopedia of ED Stats brings together data from several NCES sources including: The Condition of Education, The Digest of Education Statistics, and Projections of Education Statistics. You will be able to find information in these compendiums by searching documents through their table of contents, by subject area, and through full text and table title word searches.
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| Category: | Start / Building Virtual Communities | | Description: | Simple list of do's and don'ts for building an online community. | | hits: | 1134 | | Added on: | 05-Nov-2001 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Academic Publications | | Description: | The Journal on Excellence in College Teaching (ISSN 1052-4800) is a peer-reviewed journal published at Miami University by and for faculty at universities and two- and four-year colleges to increase student learning through effective teaching, interest in and enthusiasm for the profession of teaching, and communication among faculty about their classroom experiences. It answers Ernest Boyer's (1990) call for a forum to present the scholarship of teaching and learning. The Journal provides a scholarly, written forum for discussion by faculty about all areas affecting teaching and learning, and gives faculty the opportunity to share proven, innovative pedagogies and thoughtful, inspirational insights about teaching. | | hits: | 1113 | | Added on: | 04-Jul-2001 | | Rating: | 10.0 (1 Vote) | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Academic Publications | | Description: | Founded as School Review in 1893, AJE acquired its present name in November 1979. The Journal seeks to bridge and integrate the intellectual, methodological, and substantive diversity of educational scholarship, and to encourage a vigorous dialogue between educational scholars and practitioners. To achieve that goal, papers are published that present research, theoretical statements, philosophical arguments, critical syntheses of a field of educational inquiry, and integrations of educational scholarship, policy, and practice.
Frequency: quarterly. Volume 108 begins November 1999. ISSN: 0195-6744. 144 pages/issue. | | hits: | 1098 | | Added on: | 04-Jul-2001 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Telecommuting | | Description: | The MacBride Round Table is a communications rights advocacy group created in 1989 to stimulate discussion of issues embodied in the 1980 UNESCO MacBride Report. This report was critical of imbalances in world information flows. Sean MacBride headed the UNESCO commission in charge of the report (Note: In Ireland, spelling for MacBride is often found as "McBride" .
The Round Table has become an international communication rights advocate with an agenda to accommodate scholars, activists, journalists and other communication experts devoted to the monitoring of world communication, legal ramifications, and information imbalances; and then disseminating its findings to community groups, UN agencies, non-governmental organizations and the news media.
| | hits: | 1075 | | Added on: | 04-Jul-2003 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Distance Learning / Support Services | | Description: | iThinkMedia.com has 10 years of instructional design services, learning technology integration, and online student support services. Contact us for more information. | | hits: | 1048 | | Added on: | 13-Jan-2004 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Academic Publications | | Description: | An online tutorial from "Builder.com" that provides case studies and tips for building community on your site or course. | | hits: | 1042 | | Added on: | 05-Nov-2001 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Academic Publications | | Description: | The Asynchronous Learning Networks Magazine (ALN Magazine) is published online by Vanderbilt University for the ALN Center. ISSN 1092-7131
| | hits: | 1018 | | Added on: | 04-Jul-2001 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Jobs | | Description: | This is an easy to use site where you can post your resume on for free. | | hits: | 983 | | Added on: | 20-May-2001 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Webquests | | Description: | This site is designed to serve as a resource to those who are using the WebQuest model to teach with the web. By pointing to excellent examples and collecting materials developed to communicate the idea, all of us experimenting with WebQuests will be able to learn from each other.
A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web. WebQuests are designed to use learners' time well, to focus on using information rather than looking for it, and to support learners' thinking at the levels of analysis, synthesis and evaluation. The model was developed in early 1995 at San Diego State University by Bernie Dodge with Tom March, and was outlined then in Some Thoughts About WebQuests.
| | hits: | 962 | | Added on: | 05-Nov-2001 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / eLearners | | Description: | CertificateUniverse lists certificate programs by location, subject or provider. CertificateUniverse has everything an employee or student needs to locate a certificate program, financial aid or program materials easily. | | hits: | 955 | | Added on: | 18-Mar-2002 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Instructional Design | | Description: | Check out this detailed reference created by the School of Education at the University of Colorado at Denver.
Topics Covered include:
- Instructional Design Models Bridging theory and practice.
- Constructivism Shiftng agency from teacher to learner.
- Postmodern Thought Shifting means from center to periphery.
- Semiotics Looking beneath content to signs and structures.
- Sociology of knowledge society's knowledge structures.
- Cognitive Science celebrities authors and critics of the field.
- Activity theory Artifact-mediated object-oriented action
- Socio-Cultural Theories Learning as a social phenomenon.
- Communication Theory The science and art of communication.
- Theory of Technology Studies of technical and social factors.
- Cybernetics, Systems Theory and Complexity Beyond design.
- Internet Culture Patterns of virtual culture.
- Learning environments The technology of constructivism.
- Virtual learning communities Architectures and approaches
- Connectionism A shift from algorithm to experience.
- Foundational texts from Descartes to Dewey.
- Hypertext Shifting control from author to reader.
- Corollary Sites which reference this page.
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| Category: | Start / Software Providers | | Description: | Provides web conferencing software for sharing presentations, documents, software applications or your desktop via a standard web browser. | | hits: | 948 | | Added on: | 13-Jan-2004 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / K - 12 | | Description: | Get the latest math lesson plans from LessonPlanPage.com here. | | hits: | 941 | | Added on: | 17-Sep-2001 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Bookstores | | Description: | http://www.universitybooks.com
This newcomer to the online college bookstore wars was founded by a bunch of Wolverines (and their Warrior friend) who got fed up with standing in line. It's so "no-frills" yet effective, we wonder if they commissioned Bo Schembechler to design it
| | hits: | 921 | | Added on: | 16-Apr-2001 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Government | | Description: | The EDInfo information service offers 2 messages per week on reports, studies, funding opportunities and publications from the Department of Education. You can view past EDInfo messages, subscribe to have future messages delivered to your e-mail account, or search the EDInfo archives. | | hits: | 918 | | Added on: | 04-Jul-2003 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Industry Press Releases | | Description: | Elluminate is a leading provider of live Web conferencing and eLearning solutions for the real-time organization. Serving corporate and academic sectors, the company ensures the best user experience through superior quality VoIP, communications that are in-sync regardless of connection speed, broad cross-platform support, and advanced yet easy-to-use moderator tools. | | hits: | 913 | | Added on: | 06-Mar-2006 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Academic Publications | | Description: | CADE Secretariat
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| | hits: | 912 | | Added on: | 05-Apr-2001 | | Rating: | 4.0 (1 Vote) | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / K - 12 | | Description: | Apple offers special seminars, briefings, and conference events that are great opportunities to learn more about technology in the classroom, Apple products and services, and collaborate with fellow education professionals. | | hits: | 911 | | Added on: | 20-May-2001 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Accessibility Guidelines | | Description: | In 160 pages of expert instruction, authors Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton put the essence of the Yale University Center for Advanced Instructional Media's wonderful online site design guide into traditional print. | | hits: | 893 | | Added on: | 05-Apr-2001 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Distance Learning | | Description: | Founded in 1998, NYUonline brings a new level of e-learning to corporations by combining New York University's teaching excellence with the most advanced technological online learning solutions. NYUonline focuses on developing customized, high-end course offerings that can be delivered to students' desktops, blending "anytime, anywhere," live online and existing instructor-led training. | | hits: | 887 | | Added on: | 16-Apr-2001 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Research | | Description: | A one-stop site for numerous dictionaries, glossaries, and encyclopedias. Check out the "Converters and Calculators" section that provides tools to calculate or convert weights, liquids and more...
| | hits: | 887 | | Added on: | 17-May-2001 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Distance Learning | | Description: | Online business communications training delivered to you quickly and easily. Learn persuasive letters, memos and reports at your own pace. Write quickly and will power. Give your business a boost. ESL help. Improve your marketability. Affordable. | | hits: | 886 | | Added on: | 17-Mar-2003 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Quick Stats | | Description: | The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Fast Facts Tool provides quick answers to many education questions. | | hits: | 883 | | Added on: | 04-Jul-2003 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Internet Service Providers | | Description: | GCI is a full service telecommunications and Internet service provider. SchoolAccess is a set of premium internet services for schools. GCI can deliver SchoolAccess via broadband connections anywhere in the US. | | hits: | 878 | | Added on: | 18-Mar-2002 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Academic Publications | | Description: | The Association (founded in 1981) is an international, educational, and professional organization dedicated to the advancement of the knowledge, theory, and quality of learning and teaching at all levels with information technology.
| | hits: | 870 | | Added on: | 07-Apr-2001 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Academic Publications | | Description: | Bartleby.com the is an Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse invites you to expand your web site with links to the most comprehensive reference site on the Web.
| | hits: | 865 | | Added on: | 24-May-2001 | | Comments: | 0 |
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| Category: | Start / Distance Learning | | Description: | Cisco recognizes a need to move from creating and delivering large inflexible training courses to database driven objects that can be reused, searched, and modified independently of their delivery media. The Reusable Information Object Strategy defines the standards and process for designing and developing Reusable Information Objects (RIOs) at Cisco.
| | hits: | 861 | | Added on: | 17-May-2001 | | Comments: | 0 |
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