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eLearning Dynamics Expands Into Corporate Training Market Through Symbol Technologies Partnership; Top Corporate University to Deploy PocketClassroom in U.S., Overseas

According to Symbol Technologies Chief Learning Officer, Frank Rose, “We are excited about working with eLearning Dynamics both within Symbol University and the rapidly-growing mobility marketplace.Read the Full Story

What are the conditions for and characteristics of effective online learning communities?

ScopeThis guide is premised on the notion that ‘online communities’ are an increasingly important part of the way we will operate, as teachers, learners, and citizens of a networked world, and, the benefits we accept from these new ways of working. This guide explores definitions and characteristics of online communities synthesised from the literature, summarises […]

La Quinta Uses Corporate e-learning to Stay on Top

PHOENIX—March 8, 2004—KnowledgeNet®, the fastest-growing e-learning organization, today announced that La Quinta Corporation (NYSE: LQI), a leader in the lodging industry, has signed a contract with KnowledgeNet to develop expert-led training courses for their more than 7000 employees. In addition to expert-led training, La Quinta will also have access to KnowledgeNet’s powerful and proven learning […]

A Look At … Web-Based Assessment

Previous articles and reviews in MultiMedia Schools have discussed the benefit of Web-based learning activities. Those benefits have moved into educational assessment in big—and in a confusing variety of—ways. Read the Full Story

Gallup SD Partners with PLATO Learning to Deliver Formative Assessments Tied to Standards

The partnership between PLATO Learning and Gallup McKinley County Public Schools resulted from the district’s two-and-a-half year search for a vendor to provide formative assessments to its 13,800 students. Read the Full Story

Making it easy: Tedious lectures, stiff backs, claustrophobia…

AS a child in Bangladesh’s Chittagong, Badrul H. Khan had a dream. He dreamed of having access to learning resources that was available only to fellow children in developed countries. The advent of the World Wide Web in the 1990s facilitated the fruition of the dream. Read the Full Story

Focus On Stakeholders: What does it take to create a successful e-learning system that meets the needs of all stakeholders?

An e-learning system is meaningful to learners when it is easily accessible, well-designed, learner-centered, affordable, efficient, flexible, and has a facilitated learning environment. Read the Full Story

Elearning scheme to undergo review

A government-sponsored online learning scheme is to be reviewed almost a year after a Computing investigation exposed major flaws in the project. Read the Full Story

NASA Takes-Off with eLearning

Design, developed, and hosted by PulseLearning Ltd, the program is a context oriented and role-based application simulation for the mandated travel management, which proved to be an expedient and cost effective way to create an online learning solution. Read the Full Story

RealtyU and the School of Mortgage Lending Form Partnership

“The addition of 20 (28) new mortgage course offerings further extends RealtyU Schools ability to offer more and better education to the real estate industry,” says Stefan Swanepoel, chairman and CEO of RealtyU. Read the Full Story