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Peterson’s and Bridges Partner to Co-produce First-Ever E-Guidance Center for U.S. High Schools

Peterson’s, a provider of online and print education and career information and a division of Thomson Learning, is pleased to announce an agreement with Bridges.com Inc. (TSE:BIT), North America’s foremost provider of career and educational planning solutions, to provide America’s 20,000 secondary schools career and college planning guidance, test preparation, and financial aid information via […]

Dot-Commers Trade Options for Books

Back in the reign of the dot-coms, Colvin Pitts, 22, left his computer science classes and backpack behind at Stanford University for a job as a programmer at Media3k, a San Francisco streaming media Web site that set him up with a $45,000 salary and stock options worth $70,000.

British schools in Net frenzy

The government claimed today that virtually all British schools were now hooked up to the Net.

Online university returns to Manassas

An online university can do business virtually anywhere, but Manassas officials are pleased American Military University recently decided to move back to the city.

PLATO Learning Appoints New Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing

PLATO Learning, Inc. (NASDAQ:TUTR), announced today the appointment of Robert M. Kilgarriff as Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing. Effective immediately, Mr. Kilgarriff will report to John Murray, PLATO’s President and Chief Executive Officer. Since 1999, Mr. Kilgarriff has held senior management positions with Jostens Corporation, including Vice President Sales and Channel Development for Project […]

Business Schools, Fed Up With Internet Use During Classes, Force Students to Log Off

For years, business schools have poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into wiring their classrooms, handing out laptops, and making it easy for students to log on to the Internet. Now many schools are spending thousands more to make students log off.

A New Online University in Indonesia Seeks to Lure Students With Relatively Low Tuition

A prominent Islamic organization in Indonesia has played a key role in the creation of an Internet-based virtual university in Jakarta, the nation’s capital.

BOCES’ ever-evolving vocation

BOCES’ ever-evolving vocation – Vocational training was what Rockland’s Board of Cooperative Educational Services was all about when it opened in 1961 with 15 courses and 450 students from around the county.

California State University Boosts Training Curriculum With Playback Media

Playback Media™, a provider of a suite of streaming video corporate training programs focusing on business-critical issues, recently announced an agreement with the California State University (CSU) system to offer the Playback Media eLearning solution to its campuses. In addition to conventional business-competency training, the Playback eLearning service includes courses encompassing a range of employment […]

Students with disabilities benefit from technology at Indiana U.

Two years ago, Margaret Londergan devised a plan. After working for Indiana University for almost 20 years, Londergan knew that students with disabilities needed more support than technology made possible.