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The Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) today announced the award of $42.0 million in Public Telecommunications Facilities Program (PTFP) grants to public broadcasting stations across the country. The grants will be matched by more than $68 million raised by the recipients. Of the 105 grants to be awarded, most of the funds, […]
VirtualAcademics.com, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: VADC), announced today that the Company has achieved higher earnings than projected for the year ending June 30, 2001. Steven M. Bettinger, CEO of VADC, said today, “For Fiscal 2001, we had a 128.7% increase in earned revenues to $2,632,037 from $1,150,664 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2000. […]
TWENTY-TWO schools and colleges have been selected as finalists of an international competition after impressing judges with groundbreaking web-related projects. Schools in 12 countries including France, Italy and Israel made the shortlist – but none from Britain.
Yahoo! Inc.’s business communications division, Yahoo! Broadcast Services, has unveiled the Yahoo! Training Management Studio. The new service is designed to meet the growing need for rapid online training and initial offerings will include the skills deemed to be most in demand, such as customer relationship management (CRM) and customer education.
Dr. Bensusan, 69, was a professor of humanities and religious studies in the College of Arts and Sciences at Northern Arizona University (NAU). He was also the senior faculty associate for Interactive Instruction Television at the NAU campus in Kingman. He has been at NAU since 1963. Dr. Fred Hurst, Dean of Distributed Learning, in […]
Thousands of students from low-income backgrounds will have access to Advanced Placement (AP) tests under grants to states announced today by U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige. Eighteen states, the District of Columbia and Guam applied for the AP Incentive Program grants and will share in $6.5 million to encourage students from low-income backgrounds to […]
In April 2001, MIT president Charles M. Vest announced that the Institute would bring the “open-source” software sensibility to higher education and offer—for free!—its curricula and courseware to the world via the Web. This “OpenCourseWare” initiative represents a radically different approach to digitizing, marketing and globalizing education.
Most people never see the software behind a Web site. But a group of students and faculty and staff members at Hampshire College are nevertheless making some very deliberate decisions about the programs that run the college’s sites: They have to be nonproprietary programs with codes that the students or staff members can read, rewrite, […]
Bernadette Robinson is a professor of comparative education in the School of Continuing Education at the University of Nottingham, in Britain. At the university, she has a special appointment to conduct research and help develop international collaborations. She has acted as a consultant to 37 different countries, most of them developing nations, that are creating […]
Abilene, the high-speed network backbone built for the Internet2 project by the nation’s largest research universities, is being opened up for use by thousands of public and independent colleges, community colleges, libraries, museums, and elementary and secondary schools.