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WebSurg and the University of Virginia Announce a New Source of Online Continuing Medical Education Credits for Laparoscopic Surgeons

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 12 /PRNewswire/ — At the Annual Meeting of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons in New Orleans, WebSurg, a virtual surgical university (http://www.websurg.com/), and the University of Virginia School of Medicine are announcing their joint partnership of websurg.com that provides laparoscopic surgeons the opportunity to obtain AMA category 1 Continuing Medical Education (CME) […]

Teaching and Learning with Technology

This exciting new text will be publishing this fall for your January classes. Written by teachers, for teachers, Teaching and Learning with Technology helps teachers effectively integrate technology into their classroom. The conversational writing style will engage your students, while the real world examples, activities and rubrics make this text the most accessible and pragmatic […]

UNESCO Outlines Strategy to Combat Digital Divide

Mindful both of the potentials of ICTs and of the dangers of increased marginalization these represent for those without access to them, UNESCO has developed a four-pronged strategy which it will urge States to adopt as their own at the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) scheduled to take place in Geneva in 2003 and […]

TDA Signs Two Grants And A Memorandum Of Understanding In China

Mr. Geoffrey Jackson, TDA’s Regional Director for Asia signed the grants, totaling over $600,000. Mr. Shi Miaomiao, Deputy Director General of the WTO Department of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation; Mr. Luo Bin, Deputy Director General of the National Bureau to Combat Desertification of the State Forestry Administration; and Mr. Feng Huiming, […]

Focus on e-learning challenges

Participating institutions include IBM, Britain’s Open University and India’s Tata Interactive Systems. Read the Full Article

Students plug in to regional virtual school

Bob Pennewell used to stand in front of 28 beaming eighth-graders on the first day of school, asking all to take turns introducing themselves. Read the Full Article

Seventh-graders across Maine receive laptops this fall

King heralded the arrival of the 17,000 laptops at 239 schools Sept. 5 while urging students to take care of the new computers and not to misuse them. Read the Full Article

Inter-University Networking and Capacity Building

portal is being launched to mark the occasion. This new web contains full information on each of the 500 Chairs in 113 countries and indicates the contact persons, partners and publications for each one. Visit the Site

KU ensemble to participate in unique live online Sept. 11 memorial concert

The Electro-Acoustic Music Ensemble, led by Kip Haaheim, professor of music at KU, will take part in “Memoria/Memoire.” Read the Full Article

Homeland and global security web site launched

“MIT has a long and distinguished history of public service, and continues to contribute to the betterment of the nation and the world,” the introduction states. Read the Full Article