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SkillSoft Announces New Agreements Totaling Approximately $9 Million

NASHUA, N.H.–Nov. 14, 2001–SkillSoft Corporation (Nasdaq: SKIL) today announced that it has signed multi-year agreements with three major financial institutions and two consulting firms in the United States. Under the agreements, thousands of financial services, consultants, and staff employees will have access to business and professional skills courses from SkillSoft’s extensive program library. Three of […]

Backers of Distance Education Worry That a Copyright Bill May Die in the House

College administrators are worrying that Congress, preoccupied by terrorism and the economy, won’t get around to completing legislation that would give online education some of the same copyright exemptions that traditional courses have. Although the bill moved quickly through the Senate this summer, it has since been stalled in a House of Representatives committee.

MediaPro Partners with Questionmark

STAMFORD, CT – November 14, 2001 — MediaPro, award-winning developers of e-learning and multimedia applications for business and education, today announced a Support Services partnership with Questionmark, makers of testing and assessment software. MediaPro and Questionmark will work together to provide customers with an integrated training solution that will include MediaPro’s instructional consultation services and […]

ENMAX Selects Click2learn’s Aspen Platform to Centralize Workforce Readiness Programs

BELLEVUE, Wash.–Nov. 14, 2001–Click2learn (Nasdaq:CLKS) announced today that ENMAX Corporation, a leading competitive electricity retailer in Alberta, has selected the Aspen™ Enterprise Learning Platform to improve workforce readiness. The six-figure initiative, based on Click2learn’s Aspen Learning Management Server (LMS), will provide ENMAX with a single point of management and regulatory compliance tracking for all corporate […]

SkillSoft Announces New Agreements Totaling Approximately $9 Million

NASHUA, N.H.–Nov. 14, 2001–SkillSoft Corporation (Nasdaq: SKIL) today announced that it has signed multi-year agreements with three major financial institutions and two consulting firms in the United States. Under the agreements, thousands of financial services, consultants, and staff employees will have access to business and professional skills courses from SkillSoft’s extensive program library. Three of […]

MediaPro Partners with Questionmark

STAMFORD, CT – November 14, 2001 — MediaPro, award-winning developers of e-learning and multimedia applications for business and education, today announced a Support Services partnership with Questionmark, makers of testing and assessment software. MediaPro and Questionmark will work together to provide customers with an integrated training solution that will include MediaPro’s instructional consultation services and […]

ENMAX Selects Click2learn’s Aspen Platform to Centralize Workforce Readiness Programs

BELLEVUE, Wash.–Nov. 14, 2001–Click2learn (Nasdaq:CLKS) announced today that ENMAX Corporation, a leading competitive electricity retailer in Alberta, has selected the Aspen™ Enterprise Learning Platform to improve workforce readiness. The six-figure initiative, based on Click2learn’s Aspen Learning Management Server (LMS), will provide ENMAX with a single point of management and regulatory compliance tracking for all corporate […]

Internet MBA Programs Graduate

In December, a group of pioneering students from the University of Florida in Gainsville will receive Masters of Business Administration degrees. They will be the first class at the university to complete a two-year MBA program conducted entirely over the Internet.

Universal Music, Penguin in learning venture

Penguin Putnam, Inc. and Universal Music Group today launched InsideSessions, a joint venture that creates entertaining and informative distance learning programs for people who aspire to break into the music or book publishing industries. Phyllis Grann, chief executive officer and president of Penguin Putnam, Inc., and Doug Morris, chairman and CEO of Universal Music Group, […]

Mobile Internet Is Getting Better

Users may be frustrated with today’s wireless tools, but that will change soon, one industry insider says.