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Arbitron Inks 3-Yr Contract with GeoLearning to Consolidate, Simplify E-Learning

In addition to platform consolidation, Arbitron will purchase e-learning courseware channeled through GeoLearning as part of its 3-year contract. GeoLearning will also provide Internet hosting, maintenance and end-user technical support for Arbitron’s e-learning initiative.Through GeoLearning, Arbitron can select vendors for different types of e-learning courses—one vendor for IT and desktop training and other vendors for […]

Blackboard and North Carolina Community College System Offer Students and Faculty New e-Learning Options

TAMPA, Fla., Nov. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Blackboard Inc. (Nasdaq: BBBB) announced today an expanded relationship with the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS), enabling the system’s 58 colleges, as well as the system office, to license the complete Blackboard Academic Suite(TM). Unveiled at the League for Innovation in the Community College 2004 Conference on Information […]

Elluminate Live! 6.0 Delivers Industry Leading Live Video And Multimedia Capabilities In One Collaborative Solution

Pompano Beach, Florida – November 8, 2004 – Elluminate, Inc., a leading provider of live eLearning and Web conferencing solutions for corporations and academia, today announced Elluminate Live!TM 6.0, offering the industry’s most comprehensive rich media and cross platform support. This latest release builds on Elluminate’s innovative Java-based Collaborative Communication Framework (CCF) and delivers the […]

Arbitron Signs 3-Year Deal with GeoLearning to Consolidate & Simplify E-Learning

In addition to platform consolidation, Arbitron will purchase e-learning courseware channeled through GeoLearning as part of its 3-year contract. GeoLearning will also provide Internet hosting, maintenance and end-user technical support for Arbitron’s e-learning initiative.Through GeoLearning, Arbitron can select vendors for different types of e-learning courses—one vendor for IT and desktop training and other vendors for […]

Group touts free eLearning platform

The software, known as .LRN (“dot-learn”), was originally developed for use at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).Read the Full Story

CoSN profiles ‘must-have’ technologies

The third in a series of CoSN-sponsored reports dedicated to emerging technologies, “Hot Technologies for K-12 Schools” examines the usefulness of such heretofore little-known technologies in schools and begins to explore how such innovations might be used to transform learning in the 21st century. Read the Full Story

The Ohio Educational Telecommunications Network Uses Its Technology to Support State and Worldwide Election Coverage

OET’s uplink capacity provided access to state and worldwide election coverage.Read the Full Story

Digital Learning Management Unveils Virtual University Appliance

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 3, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) — Digital Learning Management Corporation (OTCBB:DGTL), a provider of private post-secondary education and supporting Internet-based learning systems, recently announced that it had released its new Virtual University Appliance (VU), a hardware and software all-in-one solution for creating and deploying e-learning portals, environments and ecosystems.Read the Full Story

Mississippi GEAR UP Program Chooses SMARTHINKING for Online Tutoring

WASHINGTON, D.C. – November 3, 2004 – The Mississippi GEAR UP program has selected SMARTHINKING as the statewide provider of live online tutoring for its students. Beginning in November, over 8,500 students from rural, urban and suburban schools across the state will have access to math tutors 24/7, an essay review service, and live tutoring […]

University of Cambridge’s Health Studies School Selects WebCT to Drive Inter-Professional Learning, Collaboration and Best Practice Sharing

WebCT, provider of higher education’s most flexible and widely used e-learning solutions, today announced that the Homerton School of Health Studies (HSHS) at Cambridge University has selected the WebCT Campus Edition(TM) course management system to provide its pre-registration and post-graduate health professionals with flexible, accessible online education and to encourage “inter-professional” learning in its courses. […]

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