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Lanier Conference – American Cities Under Siege? – Live On The Web

The Webcast will be available at http://www.uh.edu/admin/media/newsroom/webcast/index.html.. Leading academic experts, journalists, and political leaders from across the nation will meet in Houston for the all-day conference assessing the future of the largest American cities in an era of terror. In addition to reports from leading urban analysts, survey data from residents of New York, Chicago, […]

Element K Selected for Cisco Learning Solutions Partner Program

Cisco Learning Solutions Partners are chosen based on the breadth of their solutions and their ability to meet specific customer training and business needs. As an authorized Cisco Learning Solutions Partner, Element K is expanding its existing library of online internetworking courses by incorporating Cisco content. Element K’s e-learning solution includes access to broad libraries […]

Commonwealth Nations Back a Plan for a Virtual University to Serve Smaller States

Higher-education experts from Commonwealth nations met last week in Vancouver, British Columbia, to continue their work on the proposal. Read the Entire Article

Lightspan’s Academic Systems Expands into Secondary Schools

Academic Systems, the higher education division of Lightspan, Inc. and a leading provider of interactive multimedia instructional programs for college students, has expanded into the secondary education market. Early implementations of Academic Systems’ award-winning, technology-based Interactive Mathematics in both middle schools and high schools have demonstrated that the curriculum gives teachers a powerful tool to […]

Study: Kids’ web sites often confusing for students

Children don’t have the patience to navigate the complex designs of many of the web sites targeted to their age group, according to a study released April 15 . . . Read the Full Article

Interview with Jonathan Levy: “Context is the holy grail for e-Learning”

Jonathan Levyis Vice President of Harvard Business Online Enterprise at the Harvard Business School (HBS) Publishing Corporation. He works closely with Fortune 100 business leaders and HBS faculty, define the appropriate pedagogical and technological vision for a new model of online learning for managers that provides learner-driven career-long high-quality real-time performance support. Distance-Educator.com-What distinguishes Harvard […]

MIT course beamed to Africa

Over 190 students from eight sub-Saharan countries are taking an MIT course without leaving their continent thanks to a joint initiative of MIT’s Center for Advanced Educational Services (CAES) and the African Virtual University (AVU). Participating countries are Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. The collaboration began when AVU, a technology-facilitated higher-learning […]

Parents Ready to Pay More

Gone are the days when Nigerian universities were the delight of students from other countries in the world. Today, no foreign student itches to study in the cult and strike infested Nigerian universities. Read the Full Article http://allafrica.com/stories/200204170268.html

Aspen View Schools selects Elluminate’s vClass™ for online learning and meeting

Elluminate, an innovative provider of online, interactive, eLearning tools and services, has announced that Aspen View Schools has selected vClass, its virtual classroom software, to begin offering distance education for their schools. “After 18 months of reviewing potential software solutions, we have chosen to work with Elluminate and their vClass technology.” says Dr. Dean Lindquist, […]

The Coming Battle for DVD-Burning Dominance

Claiming it has already shipped 500,000 SuperDrive-equipped Macs and more than 2 million DVD-R media discs, Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) is taking advantage of its early adopter status to claim leadership in the race to dominate the up-for-grabs DVD authoring market. Read the Full Article