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Fueled by eLearning, IT Expenditures at U.S. Colleges and Universities Will Exceed $5 Billion in 2005, IDC Says

eLearning is quickly becoming an accepted form of education at U.S. colleges and universities — if you can’t leave an apple on the teacher’s desk, you can certainly email a picture. According to new research from IDC, U.S. Higher Education IT Spending and the eLearning Effect, 2000-2005, roughly 90% of all U.S. higher education institutions […]

Internet2 Health Sciences: Vetrinary Medical Working Group

Veterinary Medicine represents a domain of life sciences that, while having much in common with human medicine, has unique issues and opportunities for the application of advanced networking and computer applications. Accordingly, the Internet2 Health Sciences Initiative has created a new Working Group specifically for Veterinary Medicine. Chaired by Gary Allen, University of Missouri, the […]

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eCollege(SM) Promotes Matthew Schnittman To Vice President of Professional Services

eCollege(SM) (NASDAQ:ECLG), a leading provider of eLearning software and services to the higher education market, today announced that it promoted Matthew Schnittman to vice president of Professional Services, overseeing all customer service aspects of the company, including Client Services, Help Desk, Course Development, Instructional Design, and Program Consulting. “Customer service is our top priority, and […]

Big Online Job Service Acquires Web Site on College Admissions and Scholarships

TMP Worldwide, the company that owns the job-ads Web site Monster.com, announced Thursday that it had acquired FastWeb, a site that helps high-school students search for colleges and scholarships

Western Governors University Forms Articulation Agreements With Three Community College Consortiums

SALT LAKE CITY – July 12, 2001 – Western Governors University (WGU) today announced that it has formed articulation and transfer agreements with three community college consortiums – the Community Colleges of the State of Nebraska, The League for Innovation in the Community College, and Maricopa County Community College District. WGU already has articulation agreements […]

Online glitches delay medical school apps

Applicants to medical schools across the country this year have had one more source of stress during an already stressful time — problems with the introduction of Internet-based applications, which have stubbornly resisted designers’ attempts at fixes, have delayed the normally rigid process by a month.

An Online Course Teaches Techniques of Counseling

Title: “Microcounseling.” Institution: University of Iowa. Instructor: Harold Engen, a professor emeritus of counseling, rehabilitation, and student development.

MIT Open Knowledge Initiative, ADL Co-Laboratory, and IMS Cooperate to Advance Learning Technology

Leaders of the MIT’s Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI), the Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Lab (ADL), and the IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS) today announced their intention to cooperate to close the gap between innovative pedagogical technology and production learning resources. OKI, IMS, and ADL will collaborate where appropriate to accelerate the development and deployment of innovative […]

Athabasca University Online Executive MBA Students in UK

Students in Athabasca University’s Online Executive MBA program are converging in England to strengthen their “virtual” relationships and learn about doing business in Europe. After working together online, the students (managers and professionals from around the globe) are meeting face-to-face, many for the first time, at Cranfield University in the United Kingdom. They are participating […]