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Synovus Builds Foundation for E-Learning With Pathlore

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Mar. 18, 2003 – Pathlore Software Corporation announced today that Synovus (NYSE: SNV), the Columbus, Georgia-based diversified financial services company, will install the software maker’s learning-management system (LMS). Synovus will use the LMS to deliver, track, and report on corporate training for the Georgia corporation’s 11,400 employees. “Our growth makes it challenging […]

Renaissance Education Group Selected For Alaska Supplemental Education Program

NEWS RELEASE For more information contact: Michael Hosking Renaissance Education Group (503) 827-4233 michael@PersonalProfessors.com Portland Education Company Selected by Alaska Education Officials Education Web Site Uses Unique Digital Whiteboard Technology That Permits Real-Time Instruction and Live Student-Teacher Dialogue. PORTLAND, OR – March 5, 2003. Alaska education officials have announced that the Portland company Renaissance Education […]

Gov Online Learning Center Powered by GeoLearning Saves Taxpayers $20 Million

$20 million cost avoidance achieved in first 20 weeks; GeoLearning LMS is the engine behind federal government’s e-learning solution estimated to save taxpayers more than $1 billion over 10 years. The federal government’s Gov Online Learning Center, an e-learning site powered by GeoLearning’s GeoMaestro™ learning management system, has saved taxpayers approximately $20 million in its […]

SITEL Launches GeoMaestro E-Learning Platform

GeoLearning LMS offers SITEL University enhanced reporting, authoring and competency management tools. GeoLearning, Inc., the leading developer of ASP-delivered e-learning systems and Web-based training solutions, announced today that SITEL Corporation, a leading global provider of outsourced customer support services, has upgraded SITEL University to its new GeoMaestro™ learning management system and e-learning delivery platform. SITEL […]

GeoLearning Launches Third Internet Data Center

E-learning provider’s expansion reflects market demand and growing security needs of corporate and government clients. WEST DES MOINES, IA, January 6, 2003 — GeoLearning, Inc., the leading developer of ASP-delivered e-learning systems and Web-based training solutions, announced today that it has opened a new Internet Data Center facility in Toronto to meet market demand and […]

The Technology Revolution: An Interview with Frank Newman

The popular press and trade journals have featured discussions about how this technology will transform education, but we have yet to see changes on a mass scale in our approach to teaching and learning. Read the Full Article

Apple Aims Bigger at Macworld

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 7 — Apple Computer Inc. chief executive Steve Jobs opened the Macworld Expo convention here with a two-hour keynote speech that was both a product launch and a mission statement that Mac still matters. Read the Full Article

Drexel University Selects WebCT Vista to Support e-Learning for Four Philadelphia Institutions

LYNNFIELD, MA — (INTERNET WIRE) — 01/06/2003 — Drexel University, Philadelphia’s technological leader, has selected WebCT Vista as its 21st-century e-learning environment, WebCT announced today. WebCT Vista will let Drexel easily support its own academic enterprise as well as 6,500 students at three independent liberal arts colleges in Philadelphia. Drexel, one of Yahoo! Internet Life […]

SkillSoft Completes Integration of Books24x7 Content With MySmartForce e-Learning Platform

NASHUA, N.H., Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — SkillSoft PLC (Nasdaq: SKIL), a leading provider of e-learning courseware and referenceware for business and IT professionals, today announced that its development team had completed integration of Books24x7 Referenceware (SM) content, which includes more than 3,000 unabridged IT and business books and reports, with the MySmartForce e-learning platform. With […]

The University of North Carolina Deploys Centra to Provide Virtual Team Support to Global Executive MBA Program

OneMBA, a groundbreaking executive MBA program, brings together an executive class comprising an unprecedented worldwide network of business leaders that learn together. The class completes a rigorous 21-month program – a shared global core curriculum taught simultaneously on four continents at each of the five partner schools, and in residential sessions that bring together the […]