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collegeboard.com Launches Redesigned Web Site: Focuses On What Students Need To Plan For College
collegeboard.com has launched a revamped Web site to provide the vital services that students and their parents need to make a successful transition to college.
California State University, Chico Announces Online Degree Completion and Certificate Programs
California State University, Chico announces the offering of state-of-the-art online degree completion and certificate programs starting January 2001. Over the next three years, more than 130 courses will be taught online through Chico Distance & Online Education, including masters programs in psychology and computer science; degree completion programs in political science, social science, and sociology; […]
North Carolina State University, IBM, Red Hat to Announce Open Source Computing Initiatives
Ask any computing industry expert and they’ll tell you open source computing is the wave of the future. Unfortunately, there are now more jobs demanding open source skills than there are qualified applicants to fill them.
OnlineLearning.net’s Six New Partnerships Expand Presence in Educational, Corporate, Technology and Association Markets
LOS ANGELES, (BUSINESS WIRE) — OnlineLearning.net, the premier supplier of continuing higher education on the Internet, announced today new strategic partnerships with About.com, LeapIt.com, The Chauncey Group International, Prosoft, AssociationCentral.com, and CyberU.
An Online Course Teaches How to Enjoy — and Evaluate — Poems for Children
Part of an occasional series of course snapshots.
Dot-com or dot-edu?
As the Internet puts its stamp on the way people learn, traditional universities are taking on the characteristics of dot-com companies. Is this a good thing?
Faxon Partners With Kluwer Academic Publishers To Negotiate E-Journal Licenses for IUPUI — New Vendor/Publisher Acquisition Model Provides Library Community with Streamlined E-journal Access
WESTWOOD, Mass., Oct 17, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Negotiating on behalf of the IUPUI University Library, Faxon, RoweCom Academic & Medical Services (NASDAQ:ROWE) today signed an agreement to license seven electronic journals with Kluwer Academic Publishers, setting in motion a new vendor/publisher e-journal acquisition model that dramatically changes and simplifies the way libraries obtain access […]
YORK UNIVERSITY: New schools offer students wide range of programs; York University melds higher education with demands of workplace at new Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies
OCT 17, 2000, M2 Communications – TORONTO — York University is responding to the rising demand for a university education that also provides job skills and professional accreditation for the workplace with the newly reorganized Joseph E. Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies. The new Faculty will serve both part-time adult learners and full-time […]
Fayetteville Tech Names Distance-Learning Leader
Trustees at Fayetteville Technical Community College selected a new administrator Monday to expand the schools growing distance-learning program.