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Guidelines For Creating Accessible Online Learning Technologies

The SALT Project is a collaboration with the IMS Global Learning Consortium to make online learning resources accessible to people with disabilities by developing and promoting specifications and effective models that will help level the playing field for learners with disabilities. http://ncam.wgbh.org/salt

Here’s an IDEA: individualized schedules for kids

As summer winds down and the new school year launches, many students find themselves back in a building they remember very well. This is not the case for almost 4,000 Interior Distance Education of Alaska students. While IDEA students in grades K to 12 do have an office building — actually five in Alaska — […]

College Park hears details about future

As students chatted in the hallways, it was a much different atmosphere Monday night as the board of directors for College Park listened to reports from Nebraska University system representatives about the future of long-distance learning. Read the Full Article

Northark’s enrollment hits new high at 2,012

the largest number in the history of the college and the first time Northark has ever exceeded 2,000 students in a single semester. Read the Full Article

The New Digital Campus

Higher education decision makers are faced with a question that has serious organizational and monetary implications: Is it more effective to task campus IT staff with building homegrown portal applications, or is it more efficient to implement a third-party infrastructure to unite campuswide technology resources? Read the Full Article

CU telemedicine program benefits Indian patients

For years, Robert Moran would drive seven hours round trip to the veterans hospital in Hot Springs, S.D., the nearest clinic where he could get treatment for the nightmares, shakes and sweats haunting him since his return from the jungles of Vietnam. Read the Full Article

Centra Expands Presence in Asia Pacific Region

LEXINGTON, MA and SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (September 17, 2002) – Centra (NASDAQ: CTRA), the leading provider of business software solutions for eLearning and real-time collaboration, today announced that it has established a new sales and service support office in Australia. The new office expands Centra’s ability to acquire, manage and service clients in one of the […]

Arrow Electronics Selects Aspen to Drive Training Intiative for 5,000 Employees Across North America

Arrow will use the highly acclaimed Aspen LMS to integrate training information from different divisions throughout the company into a centralized, blended learning program with a single point of management. Aspen will allow Arrow Electronics to manage all aspects of learning through Arrow University — from traditional, instructor-led classes to web-based curriculum. Arrow will also […]

VCampus Revolutionizes E-Learning Delivery Through New Web Services Platform

RESTON, Va., Sept. 17, 2002-VCampus Corporation, the leading provider of web-based, end-to-end e-Learning solutions, today announced the rollout of VNexus™, a next generation platform making VCampus the first e-Learning company to launch a fully SOAP-compliant Learning Management platform with unmatched web services capabilities. Through VNexus, organizations can now take advantage of the cost effectiveness of […]

Digital Identity and the Future of the Internet

But as the Internet has grown in popularity and as Web services seek to deliver customized, user-centric experiences, the technology industry finds itself answering a whole new set of questions around identity: “digital” identity. Read the Full Article