Technology | Distance-Educator.com - Part 149 Distance-Educator.com

Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

KIA Motors America Selects SumTotal Systems To Drive Dealer Sales, Parts, Service Quality And Customer Satisfaction

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–April 29, 2004–SumTotal Systems, the industry’s largest provider of learning and business performance products, services and processes, today announced that Kia Motors America, Inc. (KMA), the U.S. sales, marketing and service arm of automotive manufacturer Kia Motors Corporation (KMC) in South Korea, has selected SumTotal technology to drive its learning and performance management. […]

Dublin embraces Linux-based e-learning

The Dublin Institute of Technology has said that a new e-learning system is transforming student life and its lecturers’ attitudes to teaching.Read the Full Story

OneTouch Strengthens Global Presence in Interactive Distance Learning by Opening OneTouch Brazil

“OneTouch is clearly the interactive distance learning leader in Latin America, as illustrated by our recent contract signing with Banco da Amazonia S.A., now deploying OneTouch technology to provide interactive virtual training to thousands of its employees throughout Latin America,” said Dennis Bertken, OneTouch chairman and CEO.Read the Full Story

Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Picks RightNow

Minnesota State Colleges and Universities will deploy RightNow to provide a common online knowledge base and tracking of phone and email incidents for its 16,000 faculty and staff. RightNow will also support Minnesota Online, the collaborative structure established to manage all online course delivery. Read the Full Story

‘Megaconference Jr.’ brings students together via Internet2

The conference, which is organized by and for K-12 students, emulates a widely successful Internet2 event called Megaconference. Read the Full Story

Twenty-nine SUNY Campuses Rely on SunGard’s SCT Banner

MALVERN, Pa., April 27, 2004 — Twenty-nine institutions from the State University of New York (SUNY), the largest university system in the United States, have come together to benefit from economies of scale. SunGard SCT, an operating unit of SunGard (NYSE:SDS), announced that the institutions have all standardized on SCT Banner administrative software and have […]

Pathlore Gives a Helping Hand to Virginia Social Services Institute

Before purchasing the Pathlore LMS, the VISSTA system was actually five separate tracking systems that made it challenging to get a statewide and strategic view of training and development needs, and accurate statewide reports.“There was a lot of legwork involved in tracking who took a single course,” says Steve Thomas, Pathlore’s president and chief executive. […]

Microsoft’s Magic Pen

If Jian Wang had his way, everything would be digital.“I hate printers—they turn digital things into analog,” he jokes, wading through a sea of cubicles at Microsoft Research Asia in Beijing, China.Read the Full Story

Faculty implementation can derail the biggest IT projects

That’s partly because trouble makes news and success usually brings silence, but the explanation lies deeper than that, according the software firm. The fault, says PeopleSoft, lies not in its software, but in the way school systems are often forced to manage a major software implementation. Read the Full Story

Polycom Adds New Best In Class Audio, Video, Web and Data Solutions to the Polycom Office, Expanding Accessibility and Benefits of Rich Media Collaboration

PLEASANTON, Calif. – April 19, 2004 – Polycom, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM), the world’s leading provider of Unified Collaborative Communications solutions, today took rich media collaborative applications to the next level by announcing new best in class personal and wireless solutions for The Polycom Office, Polycom’s unique converged voice, video, web and data solution for small, […]