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The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) has promoted Tracey L. Beeker, director, licensing and marketing, to the newly created position of vice president, strategic partnerships and licensing. Ms. Beeker reports directly to Judy L. Harris, executive vice president, PBS Business & Development. “Tracey’s commitment to the public television mission, combined with her extensive marketing background and […]
April 15, 2002 Mark your calendars! The third Windows on the Future Conference is set for for April 15 at the Fawcett Center located on the Ohio State University campus. The conference will be a joint presentation between ITEC-Ohio, ADEC (American Distance Education Consortium) and Internet2. The spring conference theme, “Meaningful Performance – End-to-End” focuses […]
Participation Trends and Patterns in Adult Education: 1991 to 1999 uses data from the 1991, 1995, and 1999 Adult Education Surveys of the National Household Education Surveys Program to examine participation rates in adult education over time. Participation is examined among different groups of adults (by age, sex, race/ethnicity, education level, labor force status, occupation […]
Students at a Sendai primary school have established virtual companies on the Internet, helping to revive a historic art while also gaining valuable business experience Read the Full Story http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20020219wo31.htm
Some education groups that were not invited to sit on a panel charged with making recommendations on how to revise federal student-aid regulations are accusing the U.S. Department of Education of stacking the deck in favor of changing a rule that affects distance education Read the Full Story http://chronicle.com/free/2002/02/2002021901u.htm
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday that students may grade each other’s work in class without violating federal privacy law, deciding the case of a learning disabled boy whose classmates ridiculed his scores and called him a “dummy.” Read the Full Story http://www1.caller.com/ccct/national_world_news/article/0,1641,CCCT_812_993756,00.html
Hampshire County schools and Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College have signed a memorandum of agreement that will enable the two institutions to improve services for both students and businesses in the Hampshire County community. Read the Full Story http://www.times-news.com/stories/2002/february/day13/1333287.html
AltaVista said Tuesday that it will discontinue its free Web e-mail service, the latest online amenity to get axed as a result of cost-cutting measures. Read the Full Story http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-840733.html
A new Systemax PC carrying AMD’s 1.6-GHz Athlon 1900+ CPU muscles its way onto the power side of the chart. Read the Full Story http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,78068,00.asp