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NASHUA, N.H. — SkillSoft Corp. (Nasdaq: SKIL), a leading e-Learning solutions provider of critical business skills training, today announced that it has recently signed an agreement with the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania to publish and distribute articles from Knowledge@Wharton, the school’s research and business website. Under the agreement, SkillSoft will select articles […]
NAPERVILLE, IL- NETg, powering intelligent decisions through learning, has been selected by the University of Phoenix, the nation’s largest private university, to provide customized curriculum courseware for its students. The NETg-powered courses will be incorporated into the University’s certification and degree program offerings in the fields of Business and Information Technology. “Many companies offer e-learning […]
YPSILANTI, Mich.- Eastern Michigan University’s College of Business has received business software valued at $7.3 million from Oracle Corporation. This gift expands on the $1.7 million in business software and technical support gifted to the University in 2000. “This gift to the Department of Finance and Computer Information Systems, together with an earlier gift to […]
Students are seeking master’s degrees because they have become the passport to entry-level jobs in many fields, or at least the key to moving up the ladder. Meanwhile, working professionals just want to keep their jobs. With business and technology seeping into nursing, education, science, public policy, and diplomacy, employees must learn new skills or […]
The Commonwealth of Learning invites submissions for authorship in the Knowledge Series an ongoing sequence of single-subject, start-up guides on topics in distance education management for practitioners.
ATLANTA – The outstanding quality of the University System of Georgia’s eCore™ courses has been recognized by WebCT, an international firm that provides course management software to support colleges and universities’ on-line learning. Independent evaluators designated four new USG freshmen and sophomore distance-learning offerings as WebCT Exemplary Courses. The award-winning courses represented a sampling of […]
Cabrini College leaders had some firm ideas about the kind of outsourcing organization they wanted to manage their campus computing operations: one that understood their educational mission, their academic values, and their culture.
Mary Flowers Braswell, a professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, had, quite literally, her “Eureka!” moment when she was studying a 12th-grade literature textbook.
STUDENTS IN A COURSE OFFERED BY Cornell University and eight institutions in other nations use videoconferencing and the Web to analyze case studies relating to environmental issues like tourism and agriculture.
(U-WIRE) LINCOLN, Neb. — Two issues that dominated discussion in this year’s Associated Students of University of Nebraska elections are already in effect at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Online teacher evaluations and a book-selling network topped ASUN’s election issues and have already been instituted in the UNO community