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If Apple refuses to initiate appropriate measures to repair thousands of allegedly defective G3 PowerBook hinges, Barry said he is prepared to take legal action. Read the Full Story http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/16385.html
IPEDS College Opportunities On-Line is your direct link to over 9,000 colleges and universities in the United States. The database has just been updated to include price information for 2001 and degree information for the 2000-2001 school year. If you are thinking about a large university, a small liberal arts college, a specialized college, a […]
The Internet’s Impact on School Project (IISP) is seeking stories from middle and high school students on how they use the Internet for school. IISP is a national study that seeks to describe the rich and varied ways that middle and high school students use the Internet for school and learning, their attitudes toward the […]
In the latest controversy over virtual schooling, the North Carolina Board of Education left the fate of a proposed online charter school hanging Feb. 7 when it agreed to allow three other charter schools to open in the fall instead. Read the Full Article http://eschoolnews.com/news/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=3516
A newly released study of advanced-placement mathematics and science courses, which have become an important ingredient for admission to elite colleges, is highly critical of the curriculums that most of those courses cover and the way they are taught. Read the Full Article http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/15/education/15COUR.html
Pathlore, the most widely deployed LMS provider in the marketplace, today announced strong growth in the value of e-Learning contracts won during its first quarter of fiscal year 2002, which ended Dec. 31, 2001. The substantial 21 percent increase in contract value is in comparison to contract value Pathlore recorded in the comparable quarter one […]
Harvard Business Online, a division of Harvard Business School Publishing, today announced the creation of “Universal Access™,” a new technology that will make the implementation of eLearning solutions across enterprises easier than ever before. Along with the substantial benefit provided to companies and their training organizations, Universal Access also enables individual managers to benefit from […]
The British Museum is delighted to announce it will be joining Fathom, the innovative knowledge and education site at http://www.fathom.com. British Museum curators and education specialists have worked closely with Fathom to provide online seminars, lectures and features which will make available the Museum’s extraordinary range of expertise to an ever-wider global audience. The Museum […]
While teaching an online course introducing students in the University of Alabama System to nutrition science, Brie Turner-McGrievy says she noticed that “there wasn’t a lot of focus on vegetarian nutrition.”
The premier Web standards body on Thursday recommended a way of signing documents using XML, calling its new digital signature guidelines a key tool for Web services infrastructure. Read the Full Article http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-838335.html