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Click2learn and Interwise Partner to Integrate Leading Learning Technologies

Click2learn (NASDAQ:CLKS) and Interwise joined forces today to integrate Click2learn’s Aspen™ Enterprise Learning Platform and the Interwise live e-Learning software solution. The partnership will allow Click2learn to seamlessly deliver, track and manage all synchronous learning events offered by Interwise– including virtual classrooms, live iMentoring sessions, scheduled or ad hoc group meetings, as well as larger […]

COLUMN: Expensive laptops are not the answer

Gone are the days of simple back-to-school shopping, the crisp feel of unused notebooks and the pristine sharpness of No. 2 pencils, that somehow yielded inexplicable feelings of excitement regarding the upcoming school year. Instead, a new and more costly back-to-school necessity has emerged for students of the new millennium.

Videoconferencing May Get Much-Needed Critical Mass

Will the current reluctance to travel stimulate widespread use of videoconferencing? The stock market seems to think so. Shares of companies that specialize in videoconferencing have shot up 30 percent or more in the last two weeks.

Review: WannaBe

wouldn’t wanna get along without without WannaBe. With my slow, rural dial-up pipeline to the Internet, I rarely connect at more than 26,400 kbps. There are no cable or DSL alternatives available here yet, so consequently, Web-surfing speed leaves a lot to be desired, to understate the case.

Yahoo! Broadcast Services Unveils Online Training Solution

Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet communications, commerce and media company, today announced the availability of online training solutions from its business communications division, Yahoo! Broadcast Services (business.broadcast.com). The new offering, Yahoo! Training Management Studio, is tailored to meet departmental needs for rapid online training at a much lower cost than current learning management […]

Apple rolls out $799 iMac

Bowing to consumer pressure for less expensive consumer computers, the online Apple Store today shows a new low-end model added to the company’s arsenal: a US$799 iMac available in Indigo only. At $799, it’s now $200 less than the next step up in the iMac line.

Why Fly When There’s Internet2?

Internet2 members who are developing high-performance networking applications will use the technology themselves to conduct their national meeting.

ADL Initiative Finalizes Latest Addition to E-Learning Specifications

Key IMS Content Packaging Capability Expanded And Included In SCORM

Abilene Network Expands Beyond Research Universities

Abilene, the high-speed network backbone built for the Internet2 project by the nation’s largest research universities, is being opened up for use by thousands of public and independent colleges, community colleges, libraries, museums, and elementary and secondary schools.

University of Phoenix, Online Campus Selects Interwise as Platform for New Interactive Corporate eLearning Site

Powered by Interwise and Hosted by U4all.com, University of Phoenix, Online Campus Offers Diverse Internet-based Corporate Training