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OU Students To Learn To Take On The World’s Negotiators

Part of the course will see students logging on simultaneously to a real-time online conference, in which they will each assume the role of a particular country in the simulated chamber as they try to agree a global treaty on forests. Students taking Environmental practice: negotiating policy in a global society will use custom-designed interactive […]

Telecommuting Gains Ground

The organization, created and run by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), surveyed 1,000 individuals in April 2002 and the results indicate that 54 percent of U.S. employees think that telecommuting would improve the quality of their lives. Among those that commute an hour or more a day, this view jumped to 66 percent. […]

Capella University Graduates Largest Online Class

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — (INTERNET WIRE) — 07/19/2002 — Capella University will confer the largest graduating class in its history at a commencement ceremony on July 27, 2002. Approximately 400 students from around the globe will be honored at the event, more than doubling the size of last year’s graduating class. Based on existing growth trends, […]

E-Learner Competencies

Much has been said about the impact e-learning has on content developers, trainers, and training managers. When the conversation turns to learners, attention focuses on the benefits of less travel and fewer hours spent away from jobs. However, those issues don’t create an entire picture of how e-learning effects participants. Read The Full Article

Keep up or lose licence, doctors here told

They need to chalk up 50 points over the next two years, and can do this a number of ways, including taking part in half-day workshops, which will give them two points, or by publishing papers in medical journals, which will give them up to 10 points. Read The Full Article

Handheld tested as teaching tool

The screen lights up fast The words from it trickle down It’s like falling rain Read The Full Article

Training Transforms a Region’s Economy

For generations, residents made their livings in lumber mills, mines, and fishing boats, collecting and processing the natural wealth. Read The Full Article

Broadband, telecommuting seen as economic boons

The initiative also has the backing of the U.S. Department of Commerce, which views broadband usage as an integral part of U.S. economic development. Read The Full Article

House Committee Votes to Ease Copyright Restrictions on Distance Education

The House Judiciary Committee unanimously approved the bill, the Technology Harmonization and Education Act (S 487), on a voice vote without debate. It is identical to a bill the Senate approved in June 2001. Read The Full Article

UT to run postgraduate program

“We want to help those in the regions who cannot afford to attend higher education institutes in person,” Atwi Suparman, the university’s rector, said on the sidelines of a seminar titled Technology in the Learning Process. Read The Full Article