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Athabasca University: World Alliance On Distance Education (WADE) Collaborates On First Global Business School Program

Athabasca University’s Centre for Innovative Management has announced a world partnership for the development and delivery of a post-MBA International Business Program. The program will be jointly offered by the world’s four leading distance universities: Deakin University in Australia, the Hong Kong Open University, the Open University of the United Kingdom, and Canada’s Athabasca University. […]

OpenUW attracts over a thousand enrollments in a month

The OpenUW, a series of free online minicourses, has registered 1,297 users since it went live on May 16, drawing interest from as far away as Scandinavia and Armenia. The minicourses have averaged about 44 users each day, mostly visitors to the University of Washington website (www.washington.edu), which holds the web link to the course […]

Electronic Tuition Rates: Sensible for States and Students

Electronic Tuition Rates: Sensible for States and Students Governor Roy E. Barnes, Georgia Chairman, Southern Regional Education Board 592 10th St. N.W. Atlanta, GA 30318 (404) 875-9211 www.sreb.org We have 21st-century distance learning and a 19th-century approach to selling it to adults who need it. Arbitrary in-state and out-of-state tuition charges don’t serve students, colleges […]

The University of Memphis Selects Element K for E-learning

ROCHESTER, N.Y., June 12, 2002 – Element K, a leading provider of training solutions for information technology and business skills, today announced that it has formed a three-year agreement with The University of Memphis, a leading urban state university with 20,000 students, to provide University students, faculty, and staff with a web-based e-learning solution. The […]

Career Education Announces Its Online University Is The First College To Use E-Signatures In Federal Aid Process

HOFFMAN ESTATES, IL, Jun 03, 2002 (INTERNET WIRE via COMTEX) — Career Education Corporation (Nasdaq:CECO) today announced that its E-learning division, American InterContinental University Online (AIU Online), is the first higher education institution in the United States approved to allow students to electronically sign federal financial aid application- related documents. Read the Full Article

An Internet Pioneer of the 90’s Looks to a Future in Software

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. In its boom years, the Internet, despite being decentralized technology with countless contributors, had a leading man: Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape Communications, who wrote code and became rich, the first of the young Internet millionaires, smiling from the cover of Time magazine at 24, barefoot and wearing shorts. Read […]

NetSchools Orion Wins Major Educational Publishing Award

“This is a significant achievement for our company,” said John Murray, President and CEO of PLATO Learning. “It speaks highly of the vision, dedication and capabilities of our new colleagues on the NetSchools Orion team. PLATO Learning greatly appreciates the Association of Educational Publishers’ recognition of NetSchools Orion as a leader in its product category.” […]

Lightspan’s Academic Systems Extends Brand to Consumer Market

TOPICS Entertainment, which is ranked as the 10th largest software publisher in the nation, will repackage, bundle and distribute select titles of Academic Systems educational software into three new titles to be distributed to national retailers such as Wal-Mart, Costco, Best Buy and CompUSA. Academic Systems will receive royalties on each sale. Jim Dredge, Academic […]

Britannica Goes Concise – One-volume Encyclopedia, the Publisher’s First, Delivers Quick Facts

The new Britannica Concise Encyclopedia packs basic information from the 32-volume Encyclopaedia Britannica into two thousand pages that deliver facts quickly. The book’s 28,000 entries provide overviews, key dates, statistics and other essential facts on everything from art to zoology. A full complement of maps, flags and charts is also included, making it ideal for […]

Storyline Online Launched Today

Joining SAG Foundation Executive Director Marcia Smith at Storyline’s inauguration will be SAG President Melissa Gilbert, SAG Foundation President Mitch Ryan (Dharma & Greg), Storyline reader Sean Astin, SAG National Recording Secretary Elliott Gould (Ocean’s Eleven) and Verizon Pacific Region president Tim McCallion. Author Nina Laden, whose book “The Night I Followed The Dog” is […]