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It’s been fifteen months since the first iPad shipped. Nearly every sizable company that makes anything that looks even sort of like a computer or a phone has rushed into the market that Apple created. Many of these companies haven’t yet shipped the tablets they’ve announced. Still, a critical mass of major iPad alternatives are […]
Creative Commons, educational publishers have teamed up to make search results more relevant for students and teachersSOURCE: eSchool NewsRead the Full Article
Microsoft, Dell, Wells Fargo, Time Warner Cable, Orbitz and Others to Present on Latest Trends in Learning and Talent ManagementSOURCE: SumTotalRead the Press Release
EVP of Products Brings Wealth of Experience to Company with Focus on Rapid Product AdvancementSOURCE: SumTotalRead the Full Article
Professors think they are doing a better job with digital tools than their students believe is the case, survey suggests.SOURCE: Inside Higher EducationRead the Full Article
DENVER — Meeting in the Mile High City, it was inevitable that the 2009 Educause Conference would contain a discussion about clouds.When Melissa Woo, director of cyberstructure research at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, and Michael Dieckmann, CIO of the University of West Florida, squared off in a debate over the merits of outsourcing […]
he Gemological Institute of America (GIA) unveiled a multimedia format, called eLearning, for its distance-learning courses in gemology and jewelry sales under the Accredited Jewelry Professional (A.J.P.) diploma program. GIA’s eLearning program features video for demonstrations, interviews with experts, instructor lectures and “see it for yourself†segments. The program comes with phone, email and in-person. […]
CHICAGO, Dec 18, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — McGraw-Hill Contemporary has introduced Pre-GED Online to provide interactive instruction in reading, writing, math, science, and social studies for students who lack the reading ability to work with GED-level materials. Read the Full Article
Europe’s leading IT home study college SkillsTrain has come up with the top ten reasons why students opt for studying at home, with career advancement being the most frequent reason and the need to earn while they learn being almost as high in the list.Read the Full Article
Abstract: e-Learning implementation is an area in progress that continues to evolve with time and further research. Researchers in the field argue that e-learning is still in its infancy, resulting into numerous implementation strategies across a wide e-learning spectrum. It is particularly interesting to note that even in supposedly mature contexts, such as university education, […]