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Asia Broadband Large Scale English Education Internet Portal Launched in China

The Fudan New English learning solution has been built up through a partnership between Shanghai Broadband Network, Shanghai Online Education Center of Shanghai Telecom and the Distance Education College of Fudan University, one of the top universities in China.Read the Full Story

Elluminate’s vClass Delivers Critical Voice Communications for Illinois Virtual High School Online Courses

Through IVHS, students at participating public or private high schools, as well as home-schooled students, have access to more than 100 online courses that may not be readily available to them in a typical school setting. Read the Full Story

VBRICK Systems Introduces Ethernetv, The First Digital Video Distribution

WALLINGFORD, CT.– November 11, 2003– Answering the call of education, government and enterprise customers, VBrick Systems, Inc. (http://www.vbrick.com/) today introduced the VBrick EtherneTV Media Distribution System, the world’s first complete system for the delivery of live and stored television to both desktops and TV’s.Read the Full Story

Look Students … No Wires … As University of Memphis Uses Avaya’s Wireless Solution to Improve Communications Mobility

BASKING RIDGE, N.J., Nov. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Avaya Inc. (NYSE: AV – News), a leading global provider of communications networks and services for businesses, today said the University of Memphis, which is seeking to become one of the nation’s leading research and technology transfer facilities, has upgraded its communications network to use the latest in […]

CompassLearning Deploys Centra to Provide Real-Time Online Professional Development to Schools Nationwide and Facilitate Corporate Communications

LEXINGTON, Mass. (November 18, 2003) – Centra Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTRA) announced today that CompassLearning, Inc. has deployed Centra’s Web collaboration software to deliver real-time online professional development services to school systems nationwide for the successful implementation and effective use of its Web-based educational technology, CompassLearning Odyssey(tm).Centra’s virtual classroom application is enabling CompassLearning’s field-based consultants […]

Ocean County College (N.J.) renews higher education services contract with Collegis

(Maitland, Fla. and Toms River, N.J. — November 18, 2003) — Ocean County College renewed an agreement with its long-time technology partner Collegis, a higher education services company, to lead its administrative technology management efforts and assist in the development of online learning models.Collegis and OCC have agreed to a five-year contract renewal with a […]

South Carolina Technical Colleges to Offer PRIMEDIA Workplace Learning’s PRIMEed

Carrollton, TX — November 18, 2003 — PRIMEDIA Workplace Learning, a PRIMEDIA company and the leading provider of integrated learning solutions for more than eight million professionals, announced today that the South Carolina Technical College System will offer PRIMEed training programs as part of its continuing education curriculum. Under the agreement, the 16 technical colleges […]

Skills2Learn releases SA-first e-learning program for World Aids Day

Skills2Learn is to release a South African first to coincide with World Aids Day on December 1 – an e-learning program that educates people about AIDS in an engaging and interactive storyline format. The program is available in eight African languages.The story format was chosen as it is a powerful teaching tool in Africa, and […]

Akiva Announces the Initial Release of Open Source Platform

Carlsbad – November 11, 2003 – Akiva Corporation, a leading developer of collaboration technology, today announced the initial release of the Madrid Platform. Designed as a standards-based alternative to proprietary architectures for Enterprise Content Management (ECM) applications, the Madrid Platform represents the first open development environment for the new breed of collaboration-enabled applications that are […]

IntraLearn Enables Verizon Literacy University to Offer Free Literacy Programs

Northboro, MA – IntraLearn Software Corporation, the leading supplier of configurable e-Learning software applications to the mid-market, announced that IntraLearn is the e-Learning infrastructure supporting the award-winning Verizon Literacy University, an online university created by Proliteracy Worldwide and the National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL) to support literacy programs and to recruit and train literacy […]