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Innovative Program to Educate Rural School Technology Coordinators AnnouncedLinn State Program to Train Technology Staff for Rural Schools Is First in Nation

The program is part of a broad effort by the Rural School and Community Trust (Rural Trust), a national rural education advocacy group, to reinvent rural teacher education in the context of the appropriate use of technology. Read the Full Article

Moonlighting for an Unaccredited University

Slade Gellin teaches three courses in engineering technology at the State University of New York College at Buffalo, spending 15 hours a week in class. Read the Full Article

Home schools on their own

Sonoma County will stop filing mandatory paperwork for home-schooling families, highlighting the tenuous relationship that exists between them and the state’s public education system. Read the Full Article

Many seniors avoid the snare of the Net

On a frigid February morning, Willard Lloyd circles the pool table, contemplating both his next shot and his ingrained status as an Internet holdout. Read the Full Article

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Collection includes Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, and Paredon record labels. Access the Site

Arizona ASP plan mired in controversy

According to a report from the East Valley Tribune of Mesa, officials from several Arizona districts have cited problems with accessing and navigating the $27.9 million system so far. Read the Full Article

e-Learning Conference and Expo Opens, Pathlore Announces PathLearn

e-Learning Conference and Expo April 8, 2002 – Apr 13, 2002 Washington DC, Conference Center PathLearn, Pathlore’s Users Conference November 4-6, 2002 Orlando, Florida International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Education (ICTE 2002) Now including a virtual conference November 20-23, 2002 Badajoz, Spain

New Resources Announced by the Jason Project, and the Library of Congress

JASON XIV The Jason Project announced JASON XIV: From Shore to Sea for school year 2002-03. The JASON team will explore the terrestrial and marine ecosystems that extend from California’s coast to the Channel Islands Marine Sanctuary to learn how such systems affect life on our planet. Three New in CyberLC New cybercasts from the […]

SmartForce/Centra merger off

Tough time for e-learning as big guns cancel deal Read the Full Article

Click2Learn to post greater loss than anticipated

The company said it expects to report a loss, excluding charges, of $2.8 million to $3.2 million, or 12 cents to 13 cents a share. Read the Article