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The Inter-American Distance Education Consortium (CREAD) celebrated its 10th anniversary with a Commemorative Conference on Cooperation in Distance Education: A Network for the New Millennium in the city where it was founded — Caracas, Venezuela. The National Open University of Venezuela organized the conference with other member institutions.
The University of Massachusetts Lowell Division of Continuing Studies and Corporate Education (CSCE) has trained dozens of faculty how to migrate courses online since they started offering distance learning courses over five years ago. Dean Jacqueline Moloney and her staff are taking the training a step further by putting their program, “Course Redesign for the […]
Two non-profit organizations said they are developing a joint project to offer satellite-based Internet service for educational purposes to minority universities in rural and isolated areas. The Internet Satellite Project will be developed by The Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center of Ohio (ITEC-Ohio) and the American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC). These organizations are currently working on […]
The Library and U.Va.’s Information Technology and Communications group (ITC), under the leadership of Karen Marshall of the Library and Nancy Hopkins of ITC, began a pilot program this summer that put new, state-of-the-art, fully loaded laptops into the hands of 14 English department faculty members.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has begun the pilot phase of its closely watched plan to create detailed Web pages for nearly all of its courses and develop courseware tools that other institutions could use free.
New York – November 28, 2001 – This week’s episode of LearningWeek Live – the first interactive weekly webcast featuring stories about the people, technology and business of learning today – features the premiere of a new program entitled “LearningWeek Libraries”. Hosted by Hope Kandel, LearningWeek’s Library Correspondent, “LearningWeek Libraries” will be webcast live monthly […]
Institutions weigh legal issues and inconvenience of tracking down students who share files
The bankruptcy auction for the assets of Lernout & Hauspie, a once highflying Belgian speech technology company, started yesterday afternoon at a New York law office. The proceedings, which could be over as soon as today, are expected to produce only a fraction of the hundreds of millions of dollars that Lernout & Hauspie owes.
Click2learn, Inc. (Nasdaq:CLKS) today announced the completion of a private placement of $6.85 million. The investment was made at a price of $2.50 per share, resulting in the issuance of 2,740,000 shares of Click2learn common stock, and also includes warrants to purchase additional shares on certain terms and conditions. Proceeds from this private offering will […]
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