Archive for the ‘Open Learning’ Category

QualKids Captures $30 Billion Child Care Industry; Launches Distance Learning, Expansive Health Resources, Online Marketplace

ATLANTA, Nov 9, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) — The $30 billion child care market now has a powerful new player. Today, QualKids (qualkids.com) will stake its claim as “communications central” for the child care industry. QualKids is the most comprehensive interactive online network linking child care professionals, families and healthcare professionals to each other.

VCampus Provides e-Learning for More Than 800,000 Healthcare Professionals Through AlternativeDr.com

RESTON, Va., Nov 8, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) — VCampus Corporation (Nasdaq:VCMP) announced today that it will provide e-Learning solutions to healthcare professionals world-wide through a partnership with AlternativeDr.com, Inc.

Web site helps kids get lowdown on candidates for presidency

ALFY.com, a Web site for children ages 3 to 9, has introduced an election section in which kids can learn about presidential candidates and vote online.

Advanced Software Bolsters Distance Learning Program

The Defense Department is taking advantage of the Internet to deliver high-quality online education and training programs inexpensively to U.S. armed services personnel.

Lessons From Computer Use at Home

Researchers say children learn very differently when using computers at home than they do in school.

Hazelden’s Distance Learning Programs Receive Approval from American Psychological Association

CENTER CITY, Minn., Nov 1, 2000 (BW HealthWire) — When Minnesota-based Hazelden Foundation began offering internet-based distance learning through www.DLCAS.COM in 1998, they were spotting the first signs of a change in the culture of addiction prevention and treatment. Hazelden projected–correctly, it’s turned out–that with an increasingly diverse group of health and human service organizations […]

Veterans of Foreign Wars Conquers Education & Training Regimen with Satellite Broadcast from National Video Communications Network

It’s also never a simple mission to get everyone together for a live, group meeting. As Benny Bachand, Assistant Adjutant General at VFW explained, “Our organization was exploring innovative and efficient ways to inform the membership in the U.S. about the various programs available to them. We also wanted to cover community service, highlight correct […]

Of Courses Launches New Internet Service for Lifestyle Classes

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Oct. 31 /PRNewswire/ — Learning to cook, paint or manage money just got easier. Of Courses LLC, the online resource for lifestyle courses, launched its inaugural web site today (www.ofcourses.com) enabling consumers to find and register for classes in six categories: art, finance, food/drink, home/garden, personal growth and recreation. Of Courses plans to […]

Virtual Campus For Space Station

ESA has begun operating a Virtual Campus for the International Space Station (ISS), allowing present and future users of the ISS in Europe to be kept informed on all the new developments taking place, share knowledge and find new research partners.

E-Learning Replacing Conventional Classrooms, Says Navy Admiral

The Navy is planning to invest $37 million during the next five years to update service learning environments, according to Rear Adm. David Brewer, deputy chief of naval education and training (CNET). This money will be spent on fiber-optic wiring for classrooms, faster computers and advanced distributed learning programs, he told an industry briefing in […]