Menu

Distance-Educator.com

Premier Portal for Professionals Since 1995, Covering Technology-Based Education

Posts Tagged ‘premium’

American Airlines Trains Flight Attendants Worldwide With IBM e-Learning Software

CAMBRIDGE, MA — (INTERNET WIRE) — 11/05/2002 — IBM today announced that American Airlines, the world’s largest airline company, now offers online safety training to all of its 24,000 flight attendants with IBM’s e-learning platform, IBM Lotus LearningSpace. Flight attendants can log on to one Web site from anywhere in the world and complete training […]

6 counties get $1.8M in grants

The grants were awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Read the Full Article

MBA degree retains popularity among IT pros

Twenty-six percent of MBAs had a job in hand when they graduated last spring, compared to the 41 percent of MBAs who entered the workforce a year ago, according to the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC). Read the Full Article

U.S. Navy Turns to TANDBERG for State of the Art Distance Learning

NEW YORK, Nov 6, 2002 (BUSINESS WIRE) — TANDBERG, a global provider of collaborative communication solutions, today announced that through its partner Applied Global Technologies (AGT), the Navy will rollout the TANDBERG Director in its Guam classrooms to support its sophisticated rich media distance learning curriculum. The Navy’s Chief of Naval Education and Training (CNET) […]

Report: ED shares personal student data

The private information disclosed on such forms—including social security number, financial status, and legal history—is shared with agencies outside the U.S. Department of Education (ED), including the Justice Department, the Pentagon, and even private companies such as debt collectors. Read the Full Article

Web Site Links Ideas of Thoreau, Emerson, and Other Proponents of American Transcendentalism

But the transcendentalist movement can actually be seen as a paradigm for the Internet, according to Ann M. Woodlief, an associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. Read the Full Article

JCC unveiling ACT online learning center

The center offers Web-based and computerized testing and job training for individuals and businesses within the Louisville metro area and also will offer a broad variety of continuing education courses, skill-specific training and distance learning. Read the Full Article

Degrees of difficulty and experience

Six of the standard Microsoft units are set to count toward a 12-unit Masters of Networking and System Administration award; and all you will need is five years’ industry experience to apply, not an IT degree. Read the Full Article

Implementing PDAs in a College Course: One Professor’s Perspective

Underlying any attempt at integrating new technology should be a basic philosophy of the interplay between technology and education. When technology is used to support a task for which it is not well suited, failure is likely. Read the Full Article

Statement by the President: An Act to Provide for improvement of Federal education research

The executive branch shall construe sections 115, 116(f), 117(d), 119, 156(b), and 186 of the Act in a manner consistent with the President’s constitutional authority to supervise the unitary executive branch and shall construe section 116(f) in a manner consistent with the President’s authority under the Recommendations Clause of the Constitution to submit for the […]