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Adaptable personal e-learning from beginning to end

An innovative e-learning platform to provide individual students with unique educational experiences tailored closely to their personal profiles, interests and needs, has been developed enabling the key goals of personalisation and adaptability to be met.Read the Full Story

California State University, Chico, leads evolution

LYNNFIELD, Mass., July 20, 2005 — California State University, Chico, an e-learning pioneer with one of the Cal State system’s highest graduation rates, has selected the WebCT Vista™ academic enterprise system to support online learning far into the future.Read the Full Story

Super-fast broadband coming via cable?

Broadband Internet access via TV cables could reach 100 megabits per second as early as next year–50 times faster than the average broadband speeds now offered to cable TV homes, a Finnish company said Wednesday.Read the Full Story

FLY pentop set to take off

LeapFrog SchoolHouse, the school division of the Emeryville, Calif.-based company that six years ago introduced the LeapPad electronic learning system–a device so popular it had parents flocking to toy stores nationwide–this fall will release its latest tool for learning: a computer the size of a pen.Read the Full Story

Internet2 Selects Glimmerglass Intelligent Optical Switches for Nationwide Advanced Network Testbed

HAYWARD, Calif. & ANN ARBOR, Mich.– July 20, 2005– Glimmerglass, a pioneer in automated fiber management and Internet2 corporate member, today announced that Internet2, the foremost U.S. advanced networking consortium led by the research and higher education community, has selected Glimmerglass Intelligent Optical Switches for deployment in five national network nodes located in Seattle, Washington […]

Students Imagine a World Where Technology Dissolves Boundaries

Imagine Cup 2005 draws 16,000 students to innovate and compete. Finals are July 27 – Aug. 1 in Japan.Read the Full Story

Elluminate Delivers Real-time Interaction to Australia’s Deakin University

Live eLearning Environment Will Also Provide Support for Off-campus Students, Cross-campus Meetings, and Professional Development for Teachers and StaffRead the Full Story

TANDBERG Adds Significant Reliability, Security Innovations to its Visual-Communication Systems, Completes its Multipoint Portfolio with MPS 200

Cisco CallManager features now available on 2000 MXP, 1500 MXP New York, USA, and Oslo, Norway — July 18, 2005 — As organizations continue to expand their visual communication networks, TANDBERG®, a global leader in visual communication and innovation (OSLO: TAA.OL), today introduced major advances that enhance the dependability and security of its H.323 video-communication […]

Is Multiple-Column Online Text Better? It Depends!

Summary: This study investigated the effects of multi-column displays and justification on reading performance and satisfaction of an online narrative passage. Participants read a short story displayed in one of six formats (one, two, or three columns, in either a full or left-justified format). Results showed a significant column x justification interaction with reading speed […]

Faster connections always bring major changes

I was chatting with some folks at a nearby telecom company called Citizens about bandwidth. The company is small, but it’s doing something very cool: It’s about to launch an IPTV service.Read the Full Story