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e-Learning: It’s More Than Automation

Bankers viewed this technological innovation as an automated teller. Real innovation did not occur until ATMs were placed outside banks and in malls, grocery stores, and airports, available twenty-four hours a day. (Twigg, 2002, Preface, p. 2 [print], ¶ 4 [online])Read the Full Story

Taking Learning to the Next Level: Balancing strategy with flexibility helps the Navy adopt new e-learning tools and technologies

However, these advances are complicating the e-learning puzzle by adding new pieces that need to be integrated into training programs.Read the Full Story

Class.com Announces Fall Release of Spanish 2A

“Our first-year Spanish sequence proved to be so popular with both teachers and students that we’ve been looking forward to the release of our new Spanish series,” said Class.com CEO Katherine Endacott. “Now that Spanish 2A is finished, we’re very pleased with the way it turned out. Students and teachers will love it. And it […]

A Model for Self-Paced Technology-Based Training

Did you ever wonder how adults learn from self-paced, technology-based corporate training?Read the Full Story

Heritage College to offer UW online courses

The two-year agreement, effective this fall quarter, allows Heritage students to enroll in UW Extension certificate programs or courses in web technology essentials, web administration, internet programming and C++ programming.These distance learning programs will be taught by UW instructors, but Heritage will award students academic credit for their work. Students will study online, communicating with […]

eLearning while you are on the move!

Pune-based Brainvisa Technologies Ltd has developed eLearning solutions on handheld devices. Speaking to CNS, Brainvisa Technologies CEO Supam Maheshwari explained that even as computer based access to the Internet and Intranet formed the basis of most eLearning solutions, smart phones and PDAs could potentially provide even more convenient access to learners. Read the Full Story

Anyone, anywhere, can feed their mind

Indeed, with the number of internet users worldwide predicted to grow to more than 502 million this year, up from 87 million in 1997, e-learning is one of the fastest growing sectors. Not only does it eliminate the need for traditional and costly infrastructure, it enables anyone anywhere to access many different levels of education […]

St. Cloud Hospital Standardizes Training With Pathlore

With Pathlore’s LMS – software that standardizes the way employees learn, and measures what they know – the Minnesota hospital is consolidating the organization’s tracking and reporting of mandatory training. St. Cloud Hospital, located in St. Cloud, Minn., is also ensuring that training complies with the regulatory requirements mandated by the Health Insurance Portability and […]

Strategic Planning in E-Learning Collaborations: A Recipe for Optimizing Success

Of course, we have heard the unbridled enthusiasm for these technology-assisted initiatives. One could get the impression that this is an education revolution that differs elementally from anything that has come before. Indeed, the technologies and their applications are different from those of a decade ago. But what often goes unnoticed is that those educational […]

Sentient DISCOVER Wins More Sites

Additional sites include the London School of Economics, Drexel University in Philadelphia, Stirling University, Middlesex University, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College and Newman College, Birmingham. Within less than a year, 34 institutions have chosen Sentient DISCOVER as their ideal learning resource management system.Sentient’s commitment to being both LMS & VLE independent is clear. Its current customers […]