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London Business School Selects eLearning Software from Centra

After evaluating serveral eLearning vendors, London Business School chose to use Centra’s ASP to enhance traditional physical classroom teaching with live, interactive online sessions delivered directly to participants’ home or office PCs. According to Ian Hardie, Associate Dean of Executive Education of London Business School, “We were looking for an innovative way to expand the […]

In States Hurt by the Recession, Technology Is on the Chopping Block

Back in the late 1990s, before the recession hit, many states poured money into technology in higher education. State leaders thought that public colleges would be improved, and many hoped that technology would lead to savings in teaching and administration. Read The Full Article

UMass Tallies Tech Grant

The three – day TE3 conference, scheduled for October, will introduce entrepreneurship faculty from business schools nationwide to cutting – edge technology that enhances the education and learning of entrepreneurship. “TE3 is designed for entrepreneurship educators who plan to use technology to teach entrepreneurship in undergraduate, graduate, and continuous (life long) educational programs,” says Jack […]

FileMaker 6 backs XML

New features include support for Extensible Markup Language (XML), which will allow it to access data from a wide variety of sources, and the ability to import large numbers of picture files directly into a database to create an image library. Read The Full Article

Divide Is More Than Digital

Now he refers to himself as a “master of Dreamweaver” and hopes to get a job as a Web designer, perhaps even owning his own business one day. Read The Full Article

OpenSAML

SAML is a framework defined by the Security Services Technical Committee within Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) that will, for example, play a part in making it easier to log into multiple Web sites. OpenSAML is an open source reference implementation of this standard that was developed by the Middleware Architecture […]

Paige Touts Technology, E-Learning on His No Child Left Behind Tour Across America

DENVER, Colo. — U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige today highlighted the importance of harnessing the power of technology to expand access to learning and make sure no child in America is left behind. Paige discussed technology and e-learning at the No Child Left Behind Forum on E-Learning at the Denver Center for the Performing […]

UW hosts conference on the future of learning

“Exploring the Future of Learning” will bring hundreds of students, researchers, and policy makers to the UW Seattle campus on July 20-21 to experience hands-on activities, demonstrations, and workshops designed to stimulate a dialogue about the transforming role of technology in learning. The UW will show off some of its most pioneering research and demonstration […]

Fresno State Offers Web-based Registration for Fall Semester

For the first time, California State University, Fresno students can quickly and easily register using the Web for their fall 2002 classes. A new Web-based registration system was introduced at 8 a.m. Monday, July 8, and is drawing substantial interest from new and returning students, said Bernie Vinovrski, assistant vice president for enrollment services. In […]

Alcatraz is not an island; Alcatraz is an inspiration

The government did all these things and sat on tribes for so many years Š and yet still, in 1969, there’s still a group of people who were willing to stand up and say, we want our freedom. We want to be Native people. We want our own governments. We want the right to self […]