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Web Authoring, Course Authoring, Learning Management, and Online Conferencing

Adobe helps people and businesses communicate better through its world-leading digital imaging, design, and document technology platforms for consumers, creative professionals, and enterprises. Blackboard.com offers a complete suite of enterprise software products and services for â€“ Higher Education, K-12, and Corporate/Government markets. Centra provides specialized software and services for real-time communication, collaboration and learning over […]

Help Desk Institute Updates Courseware for Support Center Training and Certification

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Jan. 20 /PRNewswire/ — Help Desk Institute (HDI), the global leader for the support industry and the world’s largest membership association for service and support professionals, today announced it has updated the courseware for its support center training and certification programs.Read the Full Story

PBS Home Video and Paramount Home Entertainment To Partner For Video Distribution

Beginning April 5, 2004, Paramount will bring PBS DVD and VHS releases to retailers across the country. Read the Full Story

Developing an Online Curriculum: Techniques and Technologies

It offers teaching suggestions for everything from course development to time management and community building. Read the Full Story

PBS To Develop Plan For New Public Affairs Service With Support Of Knight Foundation Grant

The project, which has the working title “PBS Public Square,” will be shaped by an advisory panel of station representatives, producers and thought leaders from the public sector, working with PBS Senior Vice President of Programming Jacoba Atlas. Read the Full Story

Schools Work Together to Make Website on Irish Potato Famine

Each school has been investigating the impact the famine had on their own locality and compiling their findings in a unique interactive website. This will act as a valuable classroom resource for schools across the province and further beyond.Read the Full Story

Accessibility in Distance Education Site, University of Maryland University College

http://www.umuc.edu/ade UMUC’s new Accessibility in Distance Education (ADE) Web site has been designed to meet the needs of faculty who are teaching students with disabilities in the online environment. The ADE site explains accessibility problems that students with disabilities are likely to encounter in navigating Web-based resources, and shows faculty members how they can address […]

The Encyclopedia of Television

It also includes histories of major television networks as well as broadcasting systems around the world and is complemented by resource materials, photos and bibliographical information. Read the Full Story

The National Zoo and Fujifilm Celebrate Giant Panda Anniversary with Launch of Online Conservation Education Program

…with the launch of Conservation Central (www.fonz.org/conservationcentral).Read the Full Story

Education News Parents Can Use: A television series about ways to ensure children’s educational success

The January 2004 broadcast of Education News Parents Can Use celebrates the second anniversary of the “No Child Left Behind Act” and its improvements for education in communities throughout the nation. At the very heart of the No Child Left Behind Act is a commitment to eliminate the large and persistent achievement gap that has […]