New Ways of Learning
Adults with poor literacy and numeracy skills say they are keen to learn more – especially if they can do so at home, using computers.
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People Can Check Out Tech at Libraries
The New York Public Library will use a private grant to create public technology training centers at several of their branches.
Prince George’s Joins Home-School Trend
For years, Anna Fogg felt as if she and her husband, Reon, must be the only African Americans on the planet who taught their children at home.
Online CPE Changes The Face of Tax, Accounting Education
Educational companies that are competing for the online continuing professional education market are revamping the content and visual appeal of their Web sites.
HUD Tenants Kick-Off Nationwide Celebration of National Neighborhood Networks Week
WASHINGTON – Residents of more than 200 HUD-assisted and public housing complexes in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico today launched the first-ever celebration of “National Neighborhood Networks Week” from October 14 through October 22, 2000. Neighborhood Network Centers enable residents of HUD housing to acquire computer skills, enroll in distance […]
National Neighborhood Networks Week 2000
Celebrate National Neighborhood Networks Week October 14-22. Our theme is: Conquering the Digital Divide: Delivering the Promise of Technology to Americas Families.
Marshall McLuhan Is Back From the Dustbin of History
Until relatively recently, the media guru Marshall McLuhan, with his gnomic pronouncements about “acoustic space” and “cool” media and “square” people, appeared to be a dated artifact of 1960’s culture destined to go the way of tie-dyed shirts, Peter Max posters and Timothy Leary. “Once exalted as oracular, Marshall McLuhan’s theories now seem laughably inadequate […]
A Window on Homeschooling by Stacy A. Teicher
For those of us who have never dipped a toe into the world of “homeschooling,” it carries a certain mystique.
CompUSA Introduces New Power2Learn Online Training Service; Customers Have the Power of Online Learning at Their Fingertips
DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oct. 5, 2000–CompUSA Inc., America’s Largest Computer Superstore(R) retailer, today announced the launch of a new web-based training service, called Power2Learn Online Training.
Random House, Pearson, The McGraw-Hill Companies Make Landmark Allied Investment in ebrary
SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oct. 10, 2000–ebrary, the authoritative source for online research, announced an unprecedented joint investment by Random House Inc., Pearson and The McGraw-Hill Companies – three of the world’s leading publishing and information services companies.
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