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SmartForce Announces SmartForceConnect

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – July 25, 2002—SmartForce (Nasdaq: SMTF), the world’s largest and most experienced e-Learning company, today announced the formation of its “SmartForceConnect” program, a comprehensive series of initiatives and relationships that will help to drive its learning solutions, and ultimately its customers’ learning programs, deeper into and more closely aligned with customers’ core, […]

Sylvan Learning Systems, Inc. Reports Strong Increases in Revenues and Divisional Profits

BALTIMORE, Jul 25, 2002 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Sylvan Learning Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SLVN) today announced strong financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2002. Read The Full Article

VCAMPUS CORP – Online Tuition Revenues Up 9% Since Q1 2002

“We are pleased to announce online tuition revenue growth for the quarter of 9% over Q1-2002,” said Daniel Neal, President and CEO, VCampus. “We expect continued growth in core online tuition revenue in the third quarter based on our current assessment. Our gains in this area represent the Company’s continued momentum in the government and […]

OPM opens online learning center

The online center is one of five cross-agency e-government initiatives that OPM will create and manage. Four additional projects are in the works, including e-payroll, e-clearance, one-stop recruitment and enterprise human resources integration. Read The Full Article

Lightspan Signs $1.6 Million Contract to Deliver Online Assessments In All Austin, Texas Schools

SAN DIEGO, July 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Lightspan, Inc. (Nasdaq: LSPN), a leading provider of high-quality educational products and services used in schools and homes to help increase academic achievement, announced today that it has signed a multi-year contract valued at approximately $1.6 million to provide benchmark assessments to students in all 105 schools in the […]

University Offers Islamic Studies Online

The nonprofit college, called Internet Islamic University, awards diplomas and bachelor’s degrees in Islamic disciplines, says the president, Zahir Uddin. He is executive director of a research group, the Center for American Muslim Research and Information. Read The Full Article

Re Best Practices in Blended eLearning – Survey

In this research we are exploring how corporate training professionals are currently utilizing blended eLearning, combining asynchronous and synchronous delivery. Your participation in this project will help to advance understanding of effective uses of technology for instructional/learning purposes. All participants will receive complimentary copies of the final white paper that we will produce as a […]

Closing in on 3D Web standards

The Web3D Consortium ( W3DC) made its draft of Extensible 3D (X3D) and an accompanying software development kit available for download and solicited comment on the specification. The technology is a descendant, expressed in XML (Extensible Markup Language), of the pioneering but ultimately unsuccessful Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML). Read The Full Article

Masters at work

more than 80 per cent of mbas earned in the uk go to people who are still at work, either studying part-time or by distance learning. Most of these students will, at least in part, be sponsored by their companies. Having an MBA traditionally increases an individual’s earning power and job prospects. But what’s in […]

Tech Data U.S. Expands Online Education Offerings for IT Resellers

CLEARWATER, Fla., (July 24, 2002) – Tech Data Corporation (NASDAQ/NMS: TECD), a leading worldwide provider of IT products, logistics management and other value-added services, has made Cisco certification courses available online to its reseller customers through an agreement with Logilent Learning Systems Inc, an e-learning service provider specializing in live training via the Internet. Resellers […]