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Blackboard Partners with blendedschools.net to Bring eLearning to 80 Rural School Districts

Blackboard’s learning software provides blendedschools.net with the means to effectively create an online community where educators and students at 80 rural schools throughout Pennsylvania can share activities, coursework, and more to meet the diverse education needs of students unavailable through traditional means at their home schools. Currently, 15,000 students participate in blendedschools.net activities.“This partnership captures […]

Nuclear Regulatory Commission to Power Training with GeoLearning’s Hosted LMS

GeoLearning, Inc., the leading provider of ASP-hosted human capital management and development (HCMD) solutions, announced today that the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has selected the companyâ€™s GeoMaestroâ„¢ learning management platform to administer agency-wide training and development for its 3,000 employees.GeoMaestroâ„¢ is an Internet-hosted human capital management and development platform that enables organizations to […]

Microsoft Windows Media Player 10

WMP no longer feels like a freebie utility thrown in with the OS (think Notepad), but is an application you’ll actually want to use. By giving you easy access to all of your multimedia files (music, photos, and video) and helping you accomplish the tasks you’re likely to want to do with them, WMP 10 […]

webcrawler : Internet2 is coming

THE Internet has turned 35 with a terrific growth rate and it has been doubling every year for the past 15 years and will continue to do so in the near future.Read the Full Story

SunGard SCT, The Masterâ€™s College, and Questionmark Complete Co-Development Project for Higher Education Assessment

MALVERN, Pa. September 2, 2004 Leaders from SunGard SCT, Questionmark, and The Masterâ€™s College today announced that together they have successfully integrated the SCT PowerCAMPUS administrative system with the Questionmark Perception testing and assessment software. The resulting technology is now available to other educational institutions that want to use SCT PowerCAMPUS IQ.Web, the self-service component […]

Philly strives to be No. 1 U.S. ‘hot spot’

The project would give students living within city limits access to a high-speed internet connection from school, from home–and everywhere in between. Read the Full Story

Blackboard and MERLOT Broaden Learning Network

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Blackboard Inc. (Nasdaq: BBBB – News) today announced a strategic relationship with MERLOT (the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Training) to improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning by increasing the number of high quality resources available to online learning communities. Read the Full Story

Portable Media Centers Change Everything

In football, the game of the century seems to happen twice a decade. Read the Full Story

Florida State University Chooses Parature to Replace Remedy’s Technical Support Solution

Looking for an alternative, FSU selected Parature for its flexibility, quick deployment time and ease of use. FSU implemented Parature’s knowledge base references, download functionalities, trouble ticket submission, survey functionalities and integrated contact management piece. With the upcoming school year rapidly approaching, FSU needed a solution that could meet their requirements and be fully deployed […]

SkillSoft’s New Virtual Classroom Technology to Expand Blended Learning Capabilities and Provide Ground-Breaking Levels of Integration for Learning Resources

NASHUA, N.H., Sep 1, 2004 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ — SkillSoft PLC (Nasdaq: SKIL), a leading provider of content resources and complementary technologies for integrated enterprise learning, today announced development plans for SkillSoft(R) Dialogue(TM), a new virtual classroom technology product that will complement SkillSoft’s wide variety of formal and informal learning content resources and the SkillPort(TM) […]