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“This is a great first step,” Senator Schumer said. “We are in desperate need of next-generation broadband infrastructure, and today’s announcement shows that companies like Verizon are leading the way toward a solution. Many communities are now able to take advantage of cutting-edge technology, and I am committed to ensuring that it spreads throughout New […]
Denver- May 9, 2005 – eCollege® [Nasdaq: ECLG], a leading provider of value-added information services to the postsecondary education industry, today announced it has been selected by Laureate Education, Inc. [Nasdaq: LAUR], the world’s leading international provider of higher education, to power its Laureate Online division’s degree programs, which currently enroll more than 22,000 students […]
WASHINGTON, DC, May 10, 2005 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) — At a time when standards and interoperability issues are of preeminent concern to decision makers at academic institutions around the country and world, Blackboard Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBB), a leading provider of e-learning software and services, is demonstrating continued commitment to the IMS Global Learning Consortium […]
NEWTOWN, Pa., May 9 /PRNewswire/ — Vantage Learning (http://www.vantagelearning.com/), the world’s leading provider of online essay scoring technologies, today announced that it expects to deliver more than 22 million tests during the 2005 calendar year.Read the Full Story
Students in Brent’s Introduction to Sociology course at the University of Missouri-Columbia now submit drafts through the SAGrader software he designed. It counts the number of points he wanted his students to include and analyzes how well concepts are explained.Read the Full Story
The research, carried out by the British Educational Communications and Technology Association (BECTA), concluded that primary schools could cut computer costs by nearly half if they stopped buying, operating and supporting products from software vendors such as Microsoft, according to the Times Educational Supplement.Read the Full Story
That surprised technology coordinator James Sowell, who came from computer-rich J.S. Clark Magnet School in Monroe. Computers in Sunset Acres’ classrooms were too old to support the Internet.Read the Full Story
Questionmark Perception enables trainers and educators to create, deliver and report on assessments without programming experience or knowledge of HTML.The Dokeos2Perception connector allows students and instructors to seamlessly link to Questionmark Perception within the Dokeos platform. Institutions can maintain student and instructor profiles within Dokeos while taking advantage of the powerful assessment features of Perception.Dokeos […]
Polycom is also announcing its current VSX 8000s and MGC multipoint video bridges will be field upgradeable to H.264 standards-based high definition video. Pricing and availability will be announced in fourth quarter 2005.Read the Full Story
Arlington, VA – May 4, 2005 – Internet2R today announced that two separate international teams have each set new Internet2 Land Speed Records (I2-LSR) in both the IPv4 and IPv6 categories. As an open and ongoing competition for the highest-bandwidth, end-to-end networks, Internet2 LSR marks represent the rate at which data is transferred multiplied by […]