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SkillSoft Introduces SkillPort 8® – A Revolutionary Learning Experience

Delivers cloud-based learning solutions to improve organizational agility ORLANDO, Fla. & NASHUA, N.H.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Addressing worldwide customer demands for a more visual and flexible presentation of learning content to improve workforce productivity, SkillSoft today introduced SkillPort 8®, a revolutionary cloud-based learning experience that contextually organizes relevant and aligned learning around the user instead of the traditional […]

Polycom’s Marci Powell Inducted Into United States Distance Learning Association Hall of Fame

PLEASANTON, Calif., May 01, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Polycom, Inc. PLCM -1.21% , the global leader in open standards-based unified communications (UC), announced today that Marci Powell, global director for Education at Polycom, was inducted into the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) Hall of Fame, which recognizes individuals who have demonstrated vision, leadership, and […]

WGU Receives 21st Century Best Practices in Distance Learning from USDLA

ST. LOUIS, May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Online university honored for third time in four years at USDLA 2012 International Conference For the second straight year, Western Governors University, www.wgu.edu , has received the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) 21st Century Award for Best Practices in Distance Learning. The nonprofit, online university […]

Three States to Focus on Flexibility in Awarding Credit

WASHINGTON—The National Governors Association (NGA) today announced the selection of three states—Pennsylvania, Kentucky and New Hampshire—to receive grant funds and technical assistance to develop policies that increase the options for students to earn high school credits toward graduation. Many states are expanding the measure of their education systems from fixed timelines that do not necessarily […]

Tempering the Rise of the Machines

The machines are rising. Soon they will be sophisticated enough to fill certain faculty roles at traditional universities. But to make this revolution work for students, academic leaders at those traditional institutions will need to broker a peace between artificially intelligent teaching programs and their human counterparts, according to a new report written by the […]

MITx: What the students think

What’s it like taking a course with 120,000 other students? That is one of the questions raised this spring by the debut of MITx, the Institute’s new online educational initiative. The first offering — a course dubbed 6.002x, or “Circuits and Electronics” — is running from March 5 through June 8, modeled after one of […]

IBM Introduces New Foundation for Mobile Computing

Comprehensive Platform of Software and Services Advances IBM’s Mobile Capabilities; Helps Clients Embrace Growing Mobile and Cloud Computing Business Opportunities IBM Press Release

Getting (Digital) Respect

MLA issues new guidelines on how work with new media should be counted in hiring, tenure and promotion decisions. Inside Higher Ed Full Story

Credit Hour (Still) Rules

Despite conventional wisdom, Western Governors U. did not earn approval to award federal aid by directly assessing how much students learned. It ties student outcomes to the credit hour (though not to seat time). Inside Higher Ed Full Story

MLA Urges Evaluators to ‘Give Full Regard’ to Digital Work

The Modern Language Association wants evaluators to get with the digital program. In a revised set of “Guidelines for Evaluating Work in Digital Humanities and Digital Media,” the association urges departments and committees that evaluate academic work in digital media and digital humanities to give it the weight it deserves and to make sure they […]