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CalStateTEACH and CollegisEduprise Tackle Teacher Shortage Through Technology

CollegisEduprise, Inc., technology services and e-Education provider to higher education, announced today a three-year partnership with CalStateTEACH to provide strategic marketing services, infrastructure support and instructional development services for its online teacher credential program. The partnership will enhance the accessibility, visibility and convenience of the CalStateTEACH program through the increased use of e-Education technologies. CalStateTEACH, […]

University of Phoenix Announces Interactive Services Agreement With America Online

University of Phoenix recently announced a content agreement with America Online where the University will provide educational content to users of several America Online brands. The University of Phoenix is a subsidiary of the Apollo Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: APOL). Under the agreement, customized content from University of Phoenix will be available in education areas across […]

The Princeton Review Acquires Key Operating Assets from Embark, An Online College Products And Solutions Provider

The Princeton Review, Inc., (NASDAQ:REVU), a provider of test preparation and college admissions services, recently announced it has acquired the key operating assets of Embark.com, Inc., a developer of online products and services for the college admissions market. The acquisition firmly positions The Princeton Review as the premier college admissions products and services company, serving […]

VCampus Announces eCampus Global as New Client; Additional Content Offerings for the Travel and Medical Industries

VCampus Corporation is pleased to announce one of its newest clients – eCampus Global Corporation, an e-Learning provider and a new reseller for VCampus. eCampus Global brings both travel and medical related content to VCampus. Travel related content offerings include Computer Reservation System (CRS) Certification training in Abacus, Amadeus, Apollo, Galileo, Marsh, Sabre and Worldspan. […]

Centra Powers Southwest Missouri State University’s ‘eHighSchool’ and ‘China Connection’ Programs

Centra (NASDAQ: CTRA) recently announced that Southwest Missouri State University (SMSU) has extended its use of Centra’s eLearning infrastructure to deliver real-time, online learning to high school students located in rural areas of Missouri, and to university students in the People’s Republic of China. Using Centra’s enterprise-class virtual classroom application, Centra Symposium™, SMSU is able […]

Technology in Secondary Teacher Education

Perhaps the time has come for the goals of education to change. Just as the invention of the printing press in the 1400s transformed the intellectual life of the world, so has the invention of the computer in the 1950s. The computer reinvented knowledge by giving us a new way to view the world and […]

Dr. H. Guy Bensusan Pioneer in Distance Education Passed Away

Dr. Bensusan, 69, was a professor of humanities and religious studies in the College of Arts and Sciences at Northern Arizona University (NAU). He was also the senior faculty associate for Interactive Instruction Television at the NAU campus in Kingman. He has been at NAU since 1963. Dr. Fred Hurst, Dean of Distributed Learning, in […]

Education Department Supports Advanced Placement Courses for Low-Income Students with Award that Pays Test Fees

Thousands of students from low-income backgrounds will have access to Advanced Placement (AP) tests under grants to states announced today by U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige. Eighteen states, the District of Columbia and Guam applied for the AP Incentive Program grants and will share in $6.5 million to encourage students from low-income backgrounds to […]

Insight: Brave New World for Higher Education

In April 2001, MIT president Charles M. Vest announced that the Institute would bring the “open-source” software sensibility to higher education and offer—for free!—its curricula and courseware to the world via the Web. This “OpenCourseWare” initiative represents a radically different approach to digitizing, marketing and globalizing education.

Hampshire College Favors Noncommercial Web Software Open to All

Most people never see the software behind a Web site. But a group of students and faculty and staff members at Hampshire College are nevertheless making some very deliberate decisions about the programs that run the college’s sites: They have to be nonproprietary programs with codes that the students or staff members can read, rewrite, […]