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Recent ERIC Digest Titles of Interest to Distance Educators

ED436528 Effective Teaching in Distance Education. * ED435382 Change in the Age of Technology: A New Look at Licensing & Copyright for Colleges & Universities. * ED436187 Evaluation of World Wide Web Sites: An Annotated Bibliography. * ED436009 Online Resources for K-12 Teachers: Children’s & Adolescent Literature. * ED435582 Teaching Social Studies with the Internet. […]

Former Lucent Technologies Executive Joins JonesKnowledge.com as Group Vice President of Sales

DENVER (August 23, 2000) – JonesKnowledge.com, Inc., a leader in the development and deployment of e-learning solutions for corporations and educational institutions worldwide, today announced that Craig Sawicki has joined the JonesKnowledge.com management team as group vice president of sales. Mr. Sawicki will oversee the sales organization, driving JonesKnowledge.coms continued leadership as a service provider […]

International Workshop on Advanced Learning Technologies

The International Workshop on Advanced Learning Technologies (IWALT 2000) took place very successfully by bringing together researchers, academics and industry practitioners who are involved or interested in the design and development of advanced and emerging learning technologies. About 130 participants from 20 countries from all continents of the world attended the event. The feedback from […]

Click ‘n learn No traffic, no 9 a.m. classes. Learning online is booming – and may fundamentally change the face of higher education

Mark Clayton, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor For eight centuries, university students have trudged to classrooms where higher learning was dispensed face to face by a frequently learned, sometimes wizened, occasionally clueless professor. If you didn’t want to march to class that was fine. You might not graduate. Now Stephanie Currier, a Washington, […]

Eduventures.com Analyses the E-Learning Growth Trends in the Higher Education Market

BOSTON — August 16, 2000– In a newly released report, Eduventures.com provides an independent evaluation and framework for colleges, universities and service providers to understand the potential growth of e-learning in the higher education marketplace. In E-Learning Accelerates into the Higher Education Market, Eduventures.com predicts that as many as 50 percent of postsecondary institutions will […]

CIBER’s Internet Solution Helps North Carolina University Win Accreditation, Enhance Student Enrollment

CIBER, with the expertise of its Internet Services National Practice, teamed up with WSSU’s marketing, public relations and information technology departments to establish standards for its updated web site, making the site interactive, database driven and transactional to automate key administrative processes. CIBER developed the overall architecture and application code and redesigned the site to […]

OnlineLearning.net Expands Options Available to Educators to Advance Their Careers

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA … While much attention has been focused on the need to improve the quality of education and information given students in classrooms nationwide, very little in the way of solid, substantive solutions have been offered. As teachers are the key to the growth and success of students, so, too, is the ease […]

Request for Articles: Special issue: “Curriculum, Instruction, Learning and the Internet” ‘Educational Technology & Society’ (ISSN 1436-4522)

While Internet access is growing in schools, universities and the corporate training arena at a geometric rate, a recent article related to Telematics and Internet based course development stated that every hour of web instruction was costing about 100 hours of preparation. There is an apparent need to harness the educational value of the Internet, […]

Institute for Higher Education Policy Quality Benchmarks Help Guide OnlineLearning.net Growth and Success

Los Angeles, CA – OnlineLearning.net, the nation’s largest provider of online professional development courses for educators, announced today that it now meets twenty-four key industry quality distance education benchmark criteria. The list of twenty-four quality measures is the centerpiece of “Quality On the Line” — an Institute for Higher Education Policy study commissioned by the […]

UWLI, Berbee Partnership Taps Soaring Demand for E-learning Solutions Partners To Deliver End-To-End Distributed Learning for Businesses

Berbee and University of Wisconsin Learning Innovations (UWLI) are engaging in an exciting new partnership to deliver comprehensive e-learning solutions to mid-market business clients located primarily in the eight Big Ten states. E-learning solutions use the power of the Internet to deliver business-critical information to employees when and where they need it. By bridging the […]