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Quantum Simulations, Inc. Presents Artificial Intelligence Tutoring Technologies at Education Secretary’s No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Leadership Summit

The Summit, “Increasing Options Through e-Learning,” was held July 12-13, 2004 in Orlando, Florida and was attended by a national audience that included governors, legislators, state chiefs, board of education members, educational technology directors and other NCLB policy makers.Read the Full Story

Blackboard to Build Comprehensive Transaction System at UT Tyler

The agreement gives UT Tyler license to the Blackboard Commerce Suite(TM), which is comprised of the Blackboard Transaction System(TM), Blackboard Portal System(TM) and BbOne(TM).Read the Full Story

Med students practice on ‘virtual’ patients

These virtual patients come in different shapes and sizes, much like the real ones.Read the Full Story

Air school radios bow to new wave

When it was established in 1960, the Mount Isa School of the Air was the first in Queensland, and when the radios are switched off on December 1, it will be the last to abandon the original means of communication.Read the Full Story

NORTEL: Open University of Israel selects converged IP telephony solutions from Nortel Networks

Airport city, Israel – Students and faculty at The Open University of Israel, the largest university in Israel, are expected to benefit from a comprehensive suite of advanced voice and data communications services to be made available using an IP (Internet Protocol) network solution from Nortel Networks* [NYSE/TSX: NT]. Read the Full Story

Nigeria to Launch Communication Satellite in 2006

This is in fulfillment of an earlier pledge by President Olusegun Obasanjo that another satellite would be launched before the administration leaves in 2007. Read the Full Story

WebCT and MERLOT Form Strategic Partnership to Energize Inter-Institution Learning Content Exchange

WebCT, maker of higher education’s most flexible and widely used e-learning solution, today announced a strategic partnership with MERLOT, higher-education’s leading online content clearinghouse. As a result, the MERLOT community will grow, and faculty will teach more effectively with WebCT course management systems (CMSs).Read the Full Story

China Leads the World in Voice and Video IP Networks; Polycom Systems Deliver Country’s Real-Time Communications

PLEASANTON, Calif. – Aug. 4, 2004 – China, the fastest growing economy in the world, is developing a world class IP communications network to support the world’s most populous nation. At the heart of virtually all large-scale communications backbones for the country’s banking, insurance, natural resources, telecommunications, disaster relief, social welfare, and academic networks are […]

RSS could transform online communication

Simply put, RSS allows you to follow information from multiple online sources, such as news web sites or “blogs” (web logs), without having to surf all over the web to find it. RSS takes advantage of Extensible Markup Language (XML)–a code for web content that can be handled easily by a wide range of operating […]

GSELearning Software Announces Free E-Learning Trial Offer

Buffalo, NY (PRWEB) July 29, 2004 — GSELearning Software, a Buffalo, New York, developer of custom multimedia eLearning solutions, announced today that it is providing a free trial of its ELearning Artisan application.Read the Full Story