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Polycom Enhances VSX Video Conferencing Systems with Improved Video and Audio Quality and Extended Data Sharing

PLEASANTON, Calif. – Oct. 20, 2004 – Polycom®, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM), the world’s leading provider of unified collaborative communications solutions, today announced new software for its industry-leading Polycom VSXâ„¢ line of video conferencing solutions. Polycom VSX Release 7.5 software delivers several enhancements that improve the quality of video calls, and introduces People+Contentâ„¢ IP, a software […]

New York Institute of Finance and VCampus Partner to Develop Online Exam Prep Program for New Research Analyst Qualification Exam

New York Institute of Finance, the world’s premier provider of financial training to financial services firms and corporations, and VCampus Corporation (NASDAQ:VCMP), a provider of comprehensive e-Learning publishing and hosting services to corporations, government agencies, associations and higher education organizations, today announced plans to develop and deliver an online curriculum to support NASD’s new Research […]

Educational Blogging

Others attend to their projects in the large, open activity room upstairs, pausing perhaps to study one of the chess games hanging on the wall before meeting in groups to plan the current project. A third group steps up a half flight of stairs into the small narrow room at the front of the building, […]

Elluminate Helps University of Iowa Expand International Interaction and Collaboration

Pampano Beach, Florida., (October 19, 2004) – Elluminate, Inc., a leading provider of live eLearning and Web conferencing solutions for the real-time organization, and The University of Iowa (UI) announced today that UI has selected Elluminate Live!â„¢ Academic Editionâ„¢ for use by its Center for International and Rural Environmental Health (CIREH) to provide interactive training […]

U.S.News & World Report’s Top Ranked Colleges and Universities Use Blackboard

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Blackboard Inc. (Nasdaq: BBBB) announces that more than 150 of the 239 schools included in the 2005 U.S.News & World Report ranking of top tier national universities and liberal arts colleges rely on Blackboard(R) software to create a networked learning environment. In the U.S.News & World Report’s America’s Best Colleges […]

Polycom ClassStation VSX Solutions Smash Barriers in Distance Learning

PLEASANTON, Calif. – Oct. 19, 2004 – Polycom, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM), the world’s leading provider of unified collaborative communications solutions, today announced four new educational solutions based on its Polycom VSXâ„¢ 7000 and VSX 8000 video communications platforms – ClassStationâ„¢ Primary, ClassStation Secondary, ClassStation Small and ClassStation Large. The new solutions are specifically designed by […]

Embanet Help Desk Tracking Systems Helps Learners Complete

Toronto, October 19, 2004 – Embanet Corporation today announced its efforts to increase retention and completion rates for online courses through the Embanet Help Desk Tracking Systemâ„¢. The traditional industry approach for help desk follow-up is to provide an email response. With the advent of viruses, Internet congestion and email filtering systems, many emails are […]

eCollege Program Intelligence Manager Enables Data-Driven Decision Making

DENVER – October 19, 2004 – The eLearning Division of eCollege® [Nasdaq: ECLG], a leading provider of value-added information services to the post-secondary education market, today announced plans to launch its Program Intelligence Manager, a set of business intelligence tools enabling institutions to easily identify, capture, analyze and act on key program metrics. Scheduled for […]

BankAtlantic Signs 5-Year License Agreement for GeoLearning Hosted LMS Platform

GeoLearning, Inc., the leading provider of ASP-hosted human capital management and development (HCMD) solutions, announced today that BankAtlantic, one of the largest financial institutions headquartered in Florida, has signed a five-year license agreement for the company’s GeoMaestroâ„¢ learning management platform. The Internet-based system will be used to manage enterprise learning and development for BankAtlantic’s 1,500 […]

CMAS Selects HaiVision’s hai500 Codec for Telemedicine Training during NEEMO 7

Montreal, Canada – October 18, 2004 – Hamilton, Ontario based CMAS (Center for Minimal Access Surgery) has selected HaiVision’s hai500 MPEG-2 encoder/decoder to provide video transmission for the NEEMO 7 space analogue mission. During this mission the CMAS team is supporting astronauts in experimental procedures related to their breakthrough telesurgery and telementoring techniques. CMAS has […]

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