Future Shock: Virtual Campus: Enter a classroom where students come from and can go to anywhere.
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Regents to Vote on Tuition Hike
Regents on the Finance and Facilities Committee discussed raising a proposed increase to students? tuition and fees from 9.9 percent to 11 percent Monday afternoon.
College Officials Want to Fix e-Mail System
Officials with the San Jose/Evergreen Community College District are trying to figure out how to limit objectionable notes on the campus e-mail system without limiting free expression. (Free Registration Required)
UCLA and Pacific Bell Team to Promote Literacy in the New Century
A $1 million gift from Pacific Bell to UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies will finance a project examining the meaning of literacy in today’s environment of rapidly changing technologies, new and unfiltered information, and increasing diversity. The new project, the Pacific Bell/UCLA Initiative for 21st-Century Literacies, will focus on educating end-users of […]
Distance-Educator.com and PROACTe to Exchange News and Information About eLearning
Distance-Educator.com and PROACTe, a service of the European Union announced today they have agreed to collaborate in exchanging news and information in the field of eLearning in the US and Europe.
Norway Claims To Be ‘First’ To Offer Adult Online Learning
Norway is claiming a world first with nationwide internet-based adult learning. A joint effort by businesses and trade unions has resulted in The Competence Network (NKN), designed to bring online learning opportunities to millions of people.
Futuremedia’s Solstra 2000(TM) Certified As UK’s First AICC Compliant Learning Management System
ARUNDEL, England, — Futuremedia PLC (Nasdaq: FMDAY), a leading provider of integrated e-learning solutions, today announced that Solstra 2000 has achieved certification from the Aviation Industry CBT Committee (AICC). The AICC is a leading international standards body dealing with inter-operability in learning technologies. The award of AICC certification makes Futuremedia PLC the UK’s first Learning […]
Canada and Its Education Ministers Create an Online-Learning Committee
Fearing that Canadian institutions are being left behind in the race to offer distance education, the Canadian government and a group representing provincial education ministers have created a national Advisory Committee for Online Learning.
UK Government: Blackstone announces Chief Inspector of Adult Learning Inspectorate
Education and Employment Minister Baroness Blackstone today announced the appointment of David Sherlock as Chief Inspector of the Adult Learning Inspectorate (ALI). Mr Sherlock is currently the Chief Inspector of the Training Standards Council. ALI, which starts operation in April 2001, will bring together the inspection of adult education and work-based training into a single […]