Menu

Distance-Educator.com

Premier Portal for Professionals Since 1995, Covering Technology-Based Education

Posts Tagged ‘premium’

WBT Systems to Support Microsoft® SQL Server™

WALTHAM, MA USA – August 21, 2001 – WBT Systems, a premier provider of scalable e-Learning solutions to organizations worldwide, today announced expansion of their TopClass e-Learning Suite™ to support Microsoft SQL Server as a preferred database platform, alongside Oracle 8i. By supporting SQL Server, WBT Systems is responding to the needs of customers and […]

Technology may bring an end to CD copying

Slipped quietly alongside regular music compact discs in record stores, mostly in Europe, are more than 1 million secretly altered discs — stealth CDs that represent the recording industry’s hopes for a solution to digital-music piracy.

E-learning: Great Growth Potential

The new school year is approaching and education is once again a major focus of attention. For some, the words “back to school” usually sends a shudder down the spine despite their urge to seek knowledge.

Kansas State University: K-State program helps registered nurse go the distance for her patients

When Karen Hackenberg, a coronary and critical care nurse, decided there was more she could do to help her patients, she turned to Kansas State University for help. Now, with her bachelor’s degree in dietetics from K-State, Hackenberg is on her way to becoming part of an elite group: registered nurses who also are registered […]

HIRC Study Identifies Ten Leading Online CME Providers

Online Continuing Medical Education (CME) will supplement traditional methods in the future, according to Health Industries Research Companies’ (HIRC) Summer 2001 eHealthRx Service. The ten companies listed in the report are: CE Medicus CMEweb Cyberounds HealthStream MedCases Medscape mypatient.com Virtual Lecture Hall WebMD World Medical Leaders “The vast majority of CME credits are still obtained […]

3 Colleges Share 1 Campus, 2 Technology Grants, and 200 High-Tech Classrooms

Three Colorado colleges faced unusual challenges when they decided to spend two separate state grants on new classroom technology at one urban campus that all three institutions share — not always comfortably.

Malaysia’s Internet Road Show

NAFIZAH ISMAIL had heard of the Internet, but she had never used it until one day in April when a special bus rolled up to her school, deep in Malaysia’s northern rice bowl.

Debating Merits of Palms in Class

Ann Arbor Open School in Michigan is an alternative public school that prides itself on accepting new ideas and student individuality, talents and interests. But to the chagrin of some parents and teachers, there is one idea the school isn’t open to — the use of handheld computers in the classroom.

Fall 2001 Internet2 Member Meeting

1-4 October, 2001 Renaissance Austin Hotel Austin, Texas

The Library That Keeps On Giving

university system has written a new chapter in how to lend e-books.