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Inquiries from international students are up 40 percent in recent months at Bisk Education in Tampa, a company that has partnered with five universities to offering Internet courses. Students are seeking everything from undergraduate degrees to specialized certificate programs.Read The Full Article
Now that the courses are almost ready, Universitas 21’s member institutions — including the University of Virginia in the United States –are starting to put more effort into their other emphasis: devising new ways of academic cooperation. Read The Full Article
The programme will be jointly developed and offered by four of the world’s leading distance education universities: the Open University/OUBS in the UK, Deakin University in Australia, Canada’s Athabasca University and the Hong Kong Open University. The four universities have founded the World Alliance in Distance Education (WADE) which aims to attract and unite distance […]
By organizer reckoning, more than 17,000 were on hand for the conference and exposition—some 5,500 exhibitors staffing approximately 450 booths and more than 12,000 teachers, administrators, and professors cramming into session rooms. Read The Full Article
Today, blind U.S. Postal Service customers can buy stamps, check ZIP codes and perform other transactions at an Internet site USPS calls its “cyberspace post office that never closes.” Read The Full Article
Dr. Deborah Jewell Sherman, Richmond Associate Superintendent for Instruction, stated: “In light of the student achievement and accountability requirements of the new No Child Left Behind Act, school districts such as ours will need to have real-time, accurate data on student achievement. We selected Lightspan eduTest Assessment because it has proven effective in school districts […]
For its part, Cubic’s Simulation Systems Division, part of the Cubic Defense Applications Group, stands to gain $667,000 in new task orders, which positions the company to potentially benefit from a projected transfer in 2004 of the C2WS to Air Education and Training Command (AETC), where various curriculum expansion proposals are currently under review. Cubic […]
The new four-year degree programme which will begin in September is the first NUI Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in Rural Development in Ireland. Read The Full Article
German newspapers and current affairs programmes on German television often feature stories about Linus Torvalds, Mika Häkkinen, and Aki Kaurismäki, as well as Nokia and the Finnish Tango. The media image of a Finn is one of a silent but competitive person who drinks milk and spends the evenings reading – and shivering in the […]
There were some new tools and toys sprinkled around the vendor booths, but mostly the same ed-tech aids they were selling a year ago. Read the Full Article