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We are, of course, disappointed that the House has today passed the Dingell-Tauzin bill, an unjustifiable and unwarranted giveaway to the Bell monopolies. This legislation, if it ever became law, would be a public policy disaster, and would allow the Bells to extend their monopoly control to all forms of telephone service as well as […]
The university is India’s largest purveyor of distance-learning programs, with an enrollment of 750,000 students. In order to extend educational opportunities to nearly every village in India, the Indira Gandhi National Open University will establish 40 FM radio stations and set up 2,000 television satellite downlinks to its study centers. Read the Full Article http://chronicle.com/free/2002/02/2002022601u.htm
USC-led group looks at teacher training. Carlile Elementary student teacher Anthony Martinez chatted on-line with a few peers, one at Desert Sage Elementary in Pueblo West, one in the tiny town of Branson near Trinidad and one in New York. Read the Full Article http://www.chieftain.com/tuesday/news/index/article/3
VA Software Corp. announced Cornell University deployed the SourceForge(TM) Enterprise Edition collaborative software development (CSD) platform to accelerate the growth of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) for the National Science Foundation (NSF). The NSDL program is building an online network of learning environments and resources for science, mathematics, engineering and technology education at all […]
3Com Corporation and Polycom, Inc. announced an agreement to deliver the SoundStation® IP 3000 – 3Com® NBX® phone, a new IP-based conference phone that integrates fully with the 3Com NBX platform. Combining the rich sound quality of Polycom’s SoundStation IP 3000 conference phone and the industry-leading 3Com NBX IP-based business telephone system will give customers […]
Knowledge Impact announced it has been selected by the Province of British Columbia to create a customized training and performance support solution for end-users of its PeopleSoft application. The government will count on Knowledge Impact’s PeopleSoft expertise to create a highly simulated, highly interactive learning environment where end-users working in the application will receive customized […]
ProsoftTraining announced a publishing partnership with Blackboard Inc. Under the terms of the agreement, Prosoft will offer Blackboard Course Cartridges for its CIW Foundations, CIW Site Designer and CIW E-Commerce Designer courses. The unique needs of academic institutions call for specialized turnkey products capable of combining traditional classroom materials with a customizable online component. CIW […]
The “enhanced distributed learning environment” (EDLE) package ties IBM content management and rich media technology into Lotus LearningSpace. IBM Mindspan Solutions, IBM’s e-learning division, has teamed with Business Partner VIP to offer a new hardware, software, and services package for distributed e-learning. Read the Full Article http://www.advisor.com/Articles.nsf/aid/SMITT602
PBS has teamed up with the Cerebellum Corporation to provide exciting new programming on PBS YOU, PBS’s distance learning service. This new programming — called Standard Deviants School — will air programs that focus on subjects ranging from mathematics and English to foreign languages and social studies. Standard Deviants School, billed as “Educational TV with […]
Liverpool University vice-chancellor Philip Love said: “China is now one of the world’s most important economies Read the Full Article http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_528809.html?menu=news.technology