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SmartForce Signs Multi-Million Dollar Contract with TELUS Corporation

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—August 19, 2002–SmartForce (Nasdaq: SMTF), the world’s largest and most experienced e-Learning company, today announced a three-year, $4.1 million, agreement to provide e-Learning to 5,000 information technology professionals of TELUS, one of Canada’s leading telecommunications companies. Providing wireless and data/IP services to Canadians at home, at work and on the move, TELUS selected […]

Centra Helps Cognex Corporation Improve Reach to Global Customers and Employees with Real-Time Web Collaboration Platform

Sharon Dratch Centra Tel: 781-994-1151 sdratch@centra.com LEXINGTON, MA (August 20, 2002) – Centra (NASDAQ: CTRA) announced today that Cognex Corporation (NASDAQ: CGNX), the world’s leading supplier of machine vision systems, has successfully deployed Centra’s real-time Web collaboration platform to deliver interactive, online learning and communications to a large global audience of customers and employees. Faced […]

Blackboard Announces Certified Education Center Program

Blackboard Inc. announced the launch of the Blackboard Certified Education Center(TM) (CEC) program. The CEC program is designed to meet the growing training needs of Blackboard clients across the United States and throughout the world. The CEC program provides convenient and affordable training options to teachers, professors and instructors seeking to take full advantage of […]

Premera Blue Cross Chooses EduNeering for Multi-Year, Enterprise-Wide Training

With more than 18,000 health-care professionals in its multi-state networks, Seattle-based Premera Blue Cross serves more than one million subscribers and their families in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Read The Full Article

Measuring the ROI of E-Learning

Here are three companies that learned how to quantify results. Read The Full Article

Net-savvy students frustrated

A wide variation in administrative and teacher policies regarding basic technology instruction, quality Internet access and interactive online assignments have contributed to the disconnect, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, which released “The Digital Disconnect: The Widening Gap Between Internet-Savvy Students and their Schools” Aug. 14. Read The Full Article

Building a Classroom the Government Can Afford — Online

Last week, the Office of Personnel Management said 5,000 people have enrolled for free courses at the Government Online Learning Center since its launch July 23. More than 1 million visitors have toured the Internet site (http://www.golearn.gov/). Read The Full Article

SmartForce Wins $10M Contract to Provide e-Learning to Deloitte Consulting

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Aug. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — SmartForce (Nasdaq: SMTF), the world’s largest and most experienced e-Learning company, announced that it has signed a $10 million agreement with Deloitte Consulting, one of the world’s leading management consulting firms. Under the agreement, SmartForce will provide the entire breadth of its e-Learning solutions to Deloitte Consulting’s 15,000 […]

JPC Foundation Launches On-Line Distance Learning Program

The inaugural Online Distance Learning Continuing Education (CE) program, A MultiModal Approach to Pain Management, is available for viewing in video format at http://www.jpcfoundation.org/. Read The Full Article

Learn2 gets out of e-learning with sale to Florida company

Learn.com Inc., a Sunrise, Fla.-based provider of LearnCenter, a learning management system, has acquired all of the e-learning content, technologies and intellectual property from Learn2 Corp. for an upfront payment of $325,000. Read The Full Article