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Public Television Features Mobile’s Azalea Trail

MOBILE–This town is known as The Azalea City, and the evergreen azaleas for which it is famous are an indispensable part of the city’s character.

Alabama Hummingbirds Close Up on Public TV

CLAY, ALA.–The visitors come calling like clockwork, beginning about this time of year. By the time fall comes around, Bob and Martha Sargent will be on intimate terms with nearly 800 of them.

Avoiding the Quality/Quantity Trade-Off in Distance Education

The promises of distance education to provide high-quality educational pro-grams that can be undertaken anywhere and at any time are not new. Similar promises were made early in the 20th century by correspondence study programs. These programs failed to realize their promises because they were confronted by a fundamental trade-off between quality – personalized education […]

Blackboard and CollegisEduprise Announce Expanded Partnership to Provide Comprehensive e-Education Technology and Services in Higher Education

Blackboard Inc. and CollegisEduprise, Inc., announced today an expanded relationship to provide a suite of comprehensive tools and services to assist higher education institutions in the development and implementation of their e-Education initiatives. The growing relationship between Blackboard and CollegisEduprise blends their respective software and services, allowing an institution to deploy a cost-effective and comprehensive […]

PSU’s World Campus allows disabled student to return

Kelley McKee of Steelton, Pa., graduated high school, went into the military and got married. She had a son and obtained her business school paralegal certificate. Her life appeared to be set. But when she got into an accident that broke her neck, leaving her paralyzed at the age of 27, McKee’s future drastically changed.

Cyber cops bust students

It can be frustrating to get, and keep, an Internet connection going. When someone is trying to keep you offline, however, it can be even more frustrating. This was the case this semester for at least six Chico State University students whose computers were blocked from accessing the Internet after the university was notified they […]

Online permits may replace snail mail by spring

Electronic delivery method meant to eliminate costs, provide better service

Cyber Café is here to stay

What was once a game room full of battered and worn billiard and ping-pong tables has now transformed into a futuristic, hip café for UM students to spend their time and cash in.

An Online Course Teaches Emergency-Room Doctors How to Deal With Bioterrorism

Dozens of emergency-room physicians from across the country are meeting in cyberspace in a bioterrorism-intervention course offered free by the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and the Detroit Medical Center.

CyberU Launches its Human Capital Management System, CES 2.9

SANTA MONICA, California – December 05, 2001 – CyberU, Inc., the leading innovator of corporate training solutions, today announced the launch of their Corporate Education System 2.9, the state-of-the-art, ASP-based human capital management system. CES 2.9 integrates CyberU’s learning management system (LMS) with a talent management system, making the Corporate Education System even more robust. […]