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EducationforAdults.com Launches on the Web

The median age of the U.S. labor force will approach 41 years by 2008 — a historic high according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. An older workforce faces greater challenges when it comes to pursuing or completing undergraduate and advanced degrees. Job and family responsibilities leave many working adults strapped for time. As a […]

Students Take Step up to Qualify

The Island is also likely to be the first jurisdiction to offer an MBA for wealth managers, fiduciaries and trustees, in association with the Society for Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) and the International Trust Companies Association. Read the Full Article

Hearing Text, Not Tunes, on Your MP3 Player

TALKING computers are nothing new. Computers in sci-fi movies have been chatting away for years (think HAL in “2001”), the physicist Stephen Hawking uses a voice synthesizer to communicate, and the occasional nerd still thinks it’s cute to record a computer-generated answering-machine greeting. Read the Full Article Note: You must register to get access to […]

NowCollege.com Launches Online Math Help For Grade 12 – The First Program Of Its Kind In Western Canada

The program offers expert instruction, tutorials, and test-preparation to high school students facing the challenges of senior-level Math. Students can access it anytime and anywhere on the Internet. Read the Full Article

Patrick Brazier: British Council to Extend Mutually Beneficial Dialogue with Syria

…the new Syria “virtual university” to help establish links with Britain Read the Full Article

GeoLearning Selected as E-Learning Provider for Boeing Employees’ Credit Union

GeoLearning, Inc. announced today that its ASP-delivered e-learning platform has been selected to power a blended learning environment for Boeing Employees’ Credit Union (BECU), the fourth largest credit union in the United States. The GeoExpress learning management system and classroom scheduler module will deliver, track and report data on e-learning courseware and instructor-led training for […]

White Paper on Marketing E-Learning Within Organizations Released by Hawthorne Associates

SALEM, Mass., April 30 /PRNewswire/ — Hawthorne Associates (http://www.hawthorneassociates.com/), a marketing firm specializing in the corporate training and manufacturing sectors, today released its new white paper, “Getting the Organization to Adopt E-Learning–From Challenge to Action”. The paper was designed to help organizations maximize investments in e-learning and outlines techniques to foster support among learners and […]

Alliance to Develop National System for Community College Faculty Development in Information Technology

Washington, DC. – Three corporate and educational leaders have formed an alliance to develop, for the first time ever, a systematic, nationwide plan for community and technical college faculty development in the field of information technology (IT). Read the Full Article

May/June 2002 Issue: The Technology Source

In an interview with James Morrison, Eduprise founder William Graves discusses the current state of today’s learning economy. Focusing on the perspectives of four groups of players in the field–students, instructors, institutions, and policymakers–Graves considers the impact of technology on these groups, and reflects upon the further changes in store for higher education. See http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=989 […]

Apple’s new eMac sports 17-inch screen

The all-white desktop, which will be sold only to teachers, schools and college students, features a 700MHz G4 processor, a 40GB hard drive and 128MB of memory. Read the Full Article