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Portals: Enabling On-Demand Education

Corporate learning initiatives are nothing new. For years, employees have taken time out of their workdays—and sometimes even their personal time—to attend courses that build the skills necessary to do their jobs. However, imagine if learning could be embedded into the workday, making it a seamless aspect of daily job responsibilities.Read the Full Story

RBC to Deliver One of the Biggest Distance Learning Systems in Russia

Rosstat is an authorized federal government agency responsible for producing official statistical reports on the social, economic, demographic and ecological condition of the country.Read the Full Story

Live online learning for Hampshire pupils

Place2Learn, developed by Hampshire County Council’s Education Other Than At School (EOTAS) Service, is being launched this week (25th April).Read the Full Story

New Horizons Delivers on the Promise of eLearning; New Horizons Online LIVE Synchronous eLearning Reaches 10,000 Student Mark

With more than 100 subject areas available and award-winning eLabs at the fingertips of students, New Horizons has trained more than 10,000 students worldwide and has delivered over 350 custom, private events to over 120 Fortune 500 companies. Read the Full Story

InfoSource Accepted into the Microsoft Professional Development Alliance

Members of the Microsoft Professional Development Alliance provide professional development training on the most current version of Microsoft Office. Selection to the alliance is limited to businesses that focus their attention on training materials to use technology in the K-12 education market. InfoSource offers a turnkey solution for K-12 school districts looking to provide professional […]

A New Age of Education and Tutoring

Well, look out — because you missed the matrimony of education and the computer — truly a marriage made in heaven, because the computer has become the ultimate bridge of communication, bringing tutors and students together, no matter the time, no matter the place, no matter the distance.Read the Full Story

E-learning industry shows signs of growth

The ELN made this finding after analysing the number of delegates attending the six or so one day conferences that it organises each year. These conferences, which explore leading edge developments in the e-learning world, attract an average audience of 100 people.Read the Full Story

Reading Online Text with a Poor Layout: Is Performance Worse?

Participants read text passages with and without enhanced layout. Results showed that reading speed and comprehension were not affected by layout, however, participants were more satisfied with the enhanced layout and reported it to be less fatiguing to read.Read the Full Story

93% of European Universities Plan to Expand Their Use of E-Learning Over the Next Two Years

LONDON, 21 March, 2005 — Almost all universities plan to expand their use of e-learning over the next two years according to a survey commissioned by WebCT, and a further 74% said e-learning already plays a major role across a majority of university courses, or believe it will within the next three years.Read the Full […]

Interview: Marc Rosenberg Is Positive about the Future

RE: What’s your definition of e-learning?MR: I think that definition is the wrong term. While there have been several terms over the years, everyone has pretty much settled on the idea that e-learning equals putting courses online. It’s training delivered electronically.Read the Full Story