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NEW YORK — With gasoline prices expected to remain uncomfortably high, many small businesses are letting some of their staffers work at home. And some owners are discovering that allowing employees to telecommute can require a different management style and some basic trust.Read the Full Article
As schools grapple with budget cuts and rising fuel costs, many districts are finding it necessary to reduce or eliminate field trips, leaving students and teachers with a surprisingly attractive option–virtual field trips.Read the Full Article
This paper takes a new look at the debate over commons and property in information and communications. It warns against recreating the old communist–capitalist ideological divide by framing the movement for informational commons as “info–communist.â€Read the Full Article
In the United States, the demand for self-paced electronic learning products will hit $13.6 billion by the end of 2007 and will continue to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22.01 percent over the next five years. This according to a new forecast from Ambient Insight detailed in report released this week […]
The Washington Post Co. has expanded its education business by purchasing CourseAdvisor Inc. for an undisclosed price, according to the Washington Business Journal. CourseAdvisor is an online search-engine company that matches users’ interests and skills with college programs, both online and in class.Read the Full Article
Private equity fund SAIF Partners has invested $10 million in Amoha Education Pvt Ltd, the holding company of spoken English training academy Veta.Read the Full Article
LONDON, July 22 — Who in the world is Barry O’Callaghan? And why is he turning a small Irish software company into a giant American textbook publisher?Read the Full Article
Washington, D.C. – If high school dropouts of the nation’s class of 2006 had instead earned their diplomas with their classmates, the U.S. economy could have benefited from an additional $309 billion in wages over these students’ lifetimes, according to conservative calculations by the Alliance for Excellent Education in its new brief, The High Cost […]
Local enrollment figures mirror national trend.More students than ever are taking courses online, according to a national report, and area institutions are increasing their efforts to attract students who are short on time. The Sloan Consortium, an organization dedicated to educating institutions about online learning, estimates that 40 percent more students nationwide took online courses […]
NASHUA, N.H. — SkillSoft PLC, an online education and training software maker, said Friday the Federal Trade Commission antitrust waiting period for its acquisition of NETg ended early.Read the Full Article
