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Submarine cable deal to be signed

The country is joining the thirteen-member consortium called SEA-ME-WE-4 to reduce telecommunication cost remarkably, and giving Internet browsers to get high-speed gateway to the cyber-world. Chittagong and Cox’s Bazar will be brought under a cable landing station for installing optical fibre link. Read the Full Story

Gilat Brings VSAT Connection For Russia’s First Distance Education Project

The satellite-based network will provide Internet access, distance learning and video conferencing to the University’s branches located throughout the Russian Federation from Kalingrad in the west all the way to Sakhalin in the east. Read the Full Story

E-learning gets boost from HP

The memorandum of understanding was signed by NCU’s Center for Science and Technology and HP Taiwan. The project was one of the first global collaborative research networks on one-on-one educational computing initiated by the IT giant and Taiwan’s e-learning advocates, officials said. Read the Story

Labor releases free e-learning app

EZ Reusable Objects will let agencies build Web-based e-learning courses, said Peter Gallagher, president of Development InfoStructure. The Arlington, Va., IT consulting firm helped Labor build the application. EZRO is an example of the resource-sharing model of how companies, agencies and the open-source software community can collaborate and build apps, Gallagher said today at FOSE […]

Introducing Folio by ePortaroTM, New Electronic Portfolio system available from Sentient Learning

Sentient Learning has concluded an exclusive agreement with US organisation ePortaro, Inc. to deliver this highly successful product in UK and Ireland. Electronic portfolios (“e-portfolios”) have already received significant uptake in the US, Europe and Australia, enabling the student, academic and institution to build an extensive record of learning, reflections and achievements in electronic format […]

Elluminate Launches Global Channel Partner Program for Live eLearning and Web Conferencing

Additionally, John Pope was hired as director of channel sales to develop and manage the new channel program. Read the Full Story

New IBM ThinkPad, ThinkCentre Preloaded with Classic Books; Partnership Between IBM and Vital Source Brings Library to Student

IBM today announced an exclusive three-year agreement with Vital Source Technologies to preload more than 2,000 classics of western civilization on ThinkPad notebooks and ThinkCentre desktops for education customers. In addition, K-12 schools, colleges and universities can work with IBM and VST to preload textbooks and other customized content. Read the Full Story

21st century skills, the future of technology and education

While more Americans than ever are getting a public education, he said, classrooms will need to change to help children keep up with the developing world. New technologies can also offer better measurements of students’ abilities. Read the Full Story

Brandeis University selects WebCT Vista for powerful, efficient management of fast-growing academic enterprise

WALTHAM, Mass., March 22, 2004 – Brandeis University, a world-class research institution with a liberal arts focus, has selected WebCT Vista to graduate from course-by-course e-learning to systematic management of its academic systems. With this decision, Brandeis becomes the first institution in Massachusetts to adopt WebCT Vista. Read the Full Story

SumTotal Systems Unveils the SumTotal Enterprise SuiteT

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 22, 2004 – SumTotal Systems™ Inc. (NASDAQ:SUMT), the business performance and learning technology industry’s largest single provider of technologies, processes and services, today unveiled its plans for the SumTotal Enterprise Suite, the integration of the leading learning and performance suites of Docent and Click2learn. Read the Full Story