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Her weekly e-mail home includes upcoming test dates and information about material that is being covered in class. She can respond to messages while students are taking exams instead of waiting until her planning period. And if she’s home sick, she can still check the messages sent to her school account.Read the Full Story
WASHINGTON, DC, Apr 14, 2005 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) — Blackboard Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBB), a leading provider of e-Learning software and services to more than 2,200 universities and K-12 schools worldwide, is expanding awareness of its software products and services across Europe.Read the Full Story
Kuwait, 13 April, 2005 –The American University of Kuwait (AUK) has adopted the SCT Luminis Platform, it was announced today by SunGard SCT, an operating unit of SunGard (NYSE:SDS). AUK’s move to the SCT Luminis Platform, a digital campus portal solution, complements the University’s successful 2004 adoption of SCT Banner, one of the world’s most […]
PLEASANTON, Calif. – April 12, 2005 – Polycom®, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM), the world’s leading provider of unified collaborative communications solutions, today announced that the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has approved Polycom’s Siren14â„¢ technology as a new 14 kHz super-wideband audio coding standard, and the approval now goes to “last call†as ITU-T Recommendation G.722.1 Annex […]
Elluminate, Inc., a leading provider of live eLearning and Web collaboration solutions for the real-time organization, announced today that Babson College has implemented Elluminate Live! Academic Version(TM). The college is using Elluminate Live! to simulate the face-to-face experience of a traditional classroom, adding live interaction to distance education programs and blended online/onsite course offerings, such […]
Topics covered include: the use of courseware to create an online course or to complement face-to-face instruction; features of Oncourse, Indiana Universitys proprietary version of courseware; advantages and disadvantages of Microsofts advanced streaming format (.asf); using Windows Sound Recorder to record lectures; compressing PowerPoint presentations; and using HTML formatted files. Sample screenshots are included. (MES)Read […]
Project TParty, announced on Friday, April 8, will address the complexity of today’s computing landscape. Whereas people currently have to maintain a wide array of “smart” devices–from cell phones to computers to personal digital assistants–on their own, TParty is intended to move such work into the background, making such computing tasks as upgrades and backups […]
SAN FRANCISCO, April 11, 2005 — XML has come a long way in helping businesses foster universal communication among workers in the 18 months since Microsoft began helping customers improve productivity by more deeply integrating XML technology into Microsoft Office System and introducing Microsoft Office InfoPath, an information-gathering application in the Office System…Read the Full […]
Qualrus, a program developed at the University of Missouri, offers instant feedback on even complex subjects.Read the Full Story
The new tools, collectively known as Accordent’s BlackBoard Integration Suite, enable non-technical content authors to save time and reduce complexity by automating the otherwise manual process of making streaming media presentations available to students within the BlackBoard Learning Systemâ„¢.The suite consists of three software applications and a server-side plug-in that enable users to upload RealAudio® […]