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Affinity Health System Chooses Pathlore Learning Management System to Deliver e-Learning to More Than 4,500 Employees

Three years ago Affinity Health System, a Catholic, mission-oriented healthcare network serving communities in Wisconsin’s Fox River Valley and East Central Region, decided it was time to make the move to e-Learning. “We wanted to take training out of the classroom and, whenever possible, deliver it directly to our employees in a format that would […]

SOCIAL ISSUES — Giving It the Old Online Try

The dot-com bubble may have burst in the world of commerce, but the promise of harnessing the Internet for paradigm-changing growth–and even profits–still thrives in the halls of academia. At the University of Maryland University College, enrollment in courses offered over the Net soared to 63,000 in the past academic year, up 50% from the […]

North Carolina Approves TechSkills

TechSkills announced it has received approval for licensing from the North Carolina Community College System’s Proprietary School Licensing Board. TechSkills has joined the elite group of licensed proprietary schools that provide education to North Carolina communities. To be licensed, proprietary schools must meet stringent requirements including standards for program and course offerings, facilities, financial stability, […]

U. Alabama Faculty Senate wants evaluations kept offline

While University of Alabama students prepared for the Thanksgiving holidays, the Faculty Senate met Tuesday to discuss posting faculty evaluations on the Internet.

Erudite Corporation, UM-Dearborn Expand E-Learning Agreement

Erudite Corporation and the University of Michigan-Dearborn (UM-Dearborn) School of Management have expanded their original agreement to coproduce e-learning management training courses…

Ohio State U. teaching assistants offer help online

Ever wanted a tutor who is available to help with classes 24 hours a day? If so, here is a dream come true.

Community Colleges Provide Key Training for New Technologies, Consultant Says

The training in information technology and other technical fields that community colleges provide is a major resource for the United States’ global competitiveness, says Willard R. Daggett, president of the International Center for Leadership in Education, a consulting group that focuses on education reform through academic technology.

Univirtuality

The greatest aim of the Internet, it would seem, is to get every single thing in the natural world online, in one form or another – everything from artificial oceans to virtual body parts. Scientists and technology experts seem to have attacked no task with greater doggedness. And why stop with the terrestrial, when there’s […]

An Online Course Explores the Persecution of Witches in Europe

“Witchcraft and Heresy in Europe,” a popular online course at Arizona State University, might draw some of its appeal from the timeless intrigue of its subject matter.

WorldCom launching satellite ISP

WorldCom Inc. plans to launch satellite Internet broadband services for the U.S. early next year, offering download bandwidth in a general operating range of 600K to 800K bit/sec., the company announced Tuesday.