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Such a robust academic support infrastructure helps schools attract students and keep students. Over 80% of SMARTHINKING e-structorsÔ have a Masters degree or PhD in their discipline. SMARTHINKING projects that it will provide 63,000 students with nearly 250,000 tutoring sessions in the 2004-2005 academic year. In a survey of nearly 1500 users, 73% of students […]
But unlike most of the others who were stalking, shooting and invading one another at a Saturday night gaming party, he was not performing in the shadow of a hulking computer tower and massive monitor. Read the Full Story
PLEASANTON, Calif. — March 22, 2004 — PeopleSoft, Inc. (Nasdaq: PSFT) today announced PeopleSoft® Enterprise CRM for Higher Education, a new solution that enables public and private colleges and universities to implement more effective interaction strategies across all phases of the student lifecycle — recruitment, registration, retention, fundraising, and continued education. Components of the new […]
“The latest version of Real-Time Mentoring enables us to deliver live support to online learners even faster and more effectively, which in turn helps companies realize greater impact and program payback from learning initiatives,” notes Wayne Goldstein, Global Mentoring’s CEO. “It’s an important step in our commitment to relevant and timely support solutions that result […]
VON CONFERENCE – SANTA CLARA, Calif. – March 29, 2004 – Polycom, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM), the world’s leader in video and voice conferencing, conference bridges and integrated web collaboration solutions, is demonstrating the industry’s first integrated voice, video, and web applications across H.323 and SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) at the VON Conference (Polycom Booth #801), […]
The VTEL program, which has been underway since December 2003, allows each of the installed systems to be upgraded to a common platform covered by VTEL’s three-year factory warranty. “By taking advantage of the VTEL upgrade program, videoconferencing systems under my direction, as well as others around the state, will have the advantage of participating […]
“This grant will be invaluable in helping us extend the reach of digital broadcasting to all the communities we serve,” said Ted Krichels, general manager for Penn State Public Broadcasting and associate vice president for outreach at Penn State. “We signed on WPSX’s digital signal Channel 15 in March of last year, becoming the 100th […]
The software, from a company called PeopleSoft Inc., has been touted frequently by top school administrators as the solution to the school system’s long-standing problems with such basic business functions as paying employees and vendors accurately and on time. Read the Full Story
MADISON, WIS – March 29, 2004 – Sonic Foundry Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFO), a leading rich media solutions company, today announced its award-winning rich media presentation system, Mediasite Live™, is a key technology in The Ohio State University’s new state-of-the-art facility created to give students, faculty and staff hands-on experience using and evaluating cutting-edge technologies that […]
SCORM stands for Shareable Content Object Reference Model and is an XML-based framework used to define and access information about learning objects so they can be shared among different management systems. It was developed in response to a Department of Defense (DoD) initiative to promote standardization in e-learning. Read the Full Story