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Educators can also combine the newly established configuration guidelines and professional consulting to select hardware/software combinations that fully support their current and future e-learning programs. Read The Full Article
Developed by Ottawa-based e-learning company, ACERRA (http://www.acerra.ca/), the unique application replaces a paper-based certification program to better address the needs of a geographically dispersed workforce, annual re- certification requirements and increasingly complex learning demands. Read The Full Article
Elluminate, an innovative provider of online, interactive, eLearning tools and services, today announced the release of vClass(TM) Version 3.5 Collaboration Environment. vClass enables the delivery of live, online learning, training, and meeting over the Internet by engaging participants with the ability to talk over the Internet (with full, 2-way audio), chat online, share whiteboards and […]
In a 3-2 vote, with two members absent, the Mat-Su Borough School Board last week turned down Horizon Charter School’s request to open this coming school year, but even those members who voted to reject the proposal for now said it was more of an issue of timing and that they would like to consider […]
The goals, put forward by the board members, Superintendent of Schools Bill Eckler and interim high school principal Dr. Peter Bassett, were then grouped by Davis into three general categories: curriculum, organization/operational and involvement. Read The Full Article
For the first time, the school district is offering virtual summer school, where students can read textbooks over the Internet, from home or centralized school sites, and take a midterm and final exam to ensure they understood the material and get the credits they need. Read The Full Article
The four-member faculty committee was formed after a distance-education student was offended by a tenured professor’s remarks in a videotaped lecture. John Broida, the professor of psychology in the middle of the case, is known by his colleagues to be a provocative lecturer. Read The Full Article
Washington, D.C. – The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today released summary statistics of its latest data on the deployment of high-speed connections to the Internet in the United States. The information being released today was filed by qualifying service providers on March 1, 2002, and includes data as of December 31, 2001. Qualifying providers file […]
The contract is a one-year amendment to a previous agreement under which The Lightspan Network was provided to 43 BIA-funded schools. William Mehojha, Director of the Office of Indian Education Programs, said: “The BIA initially selected Lightspan because of the company’s experience with large district- and statewide implementations, and the extensive body of research that […]
eCollegeSM [Nasdaq: ECLG], ], the leading provider of technology and services for online higher education programs, today announced it achieved record revenues for the second quarter ending June 30, 2002. Revenue for the second quarter increased 24 percent to $5.8 million, from $4.6 million for the second quarter of 2001. The net loss for the […]