IT training rebounds, e-learning drives surge
The last couple of years have been tough ones for the training market. With the flattening of IT spend goes the year’s budget for training on those postponed technologies. Read the Full Article
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Online-Learning Announces Design Courses For Web Professionals
The courses provide students with the unique ability to receive training in multiple core Information Design skills. Read the Full Article
Future teachers reach new heights
Ellenville Middle School is hosting a new six-credit inclusion class, part of SUNY New Paltz’s five-year elementary and special education master’s program. Read the Full Article
Video counseling assists people in rural areas
Three years ago the superintendent of schools at Arthur County expressed the need for mental health providers in the Sandhills area of Nebraska. Read the Full Article
Students at PVHS, THS share one teacher in groundbreaking video-linked Spanish I class
It’s a Tuesday early in the school year, and Pahrump Valley High School teacher Susan Warner is showing her students how to count and write their addresses in Spanish. Read the Full Article
Agencies struggling to put ‘diploma mills’ out of business
Several state education agencies are trying to shut down diploma mills, with mixed success. Universities in Washington, D.C., have joined forces to stop one company from including their names on a Web site. Concern about cases of falsified transcripts, meanwhile, will top the agenda of a meeting next week of the Association of American Medical […]
Michigan Community Colleges: Colleges Coalesce Around eLearning Platform
WIDS, or Worldwide Instructional Design System, is a set of software and training tools developed by the Wisconsin Technical College System. It is an approach to teaching, assessment, and outcomes measurement that is now in place in 300 schools and school systems in the United States and abroad. Read the Full Article
University Circle institutions broadcasting to classrooms
But the new Center for Distance Learning, which opened yesterday at the Western Reserve Historical Society, will move the journey in the other direction, too, by sending the cultural and educational resources of University Circle institutions into the classroom. Read the Full Article
Chinese Institutions Look Toward Distance Education
As many as 800,000 students will gain access to higher education through distance-education programs that have been authorized by China’s Ministry of Education, says Qiong Wang, an associate professor of education at Peking University, in Beijing. Read the Full Article
2002 Session of WIPO Assemblies Conclude
The highlights of the meeting that took place from September 23 through October 1, 2001, include: – Member states considered the procedures for the appointment of a Director General in 2003 and decided to convene a special session of the General Assembly in mid-2003 to endorse the nomination of a Director General by the WIPO […]