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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Howard P. Buck McKeon (R-CA), chairman of the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness, today announced that the FED. UP page on the House Education and the Workforce Committee website has received approximately 3,000 responses from college officials, administrators, and other personnel who operate Americas institutions of higher learning. The web page […]
Online research start-up Ebrary and the Learning Network, an e-learning company owned by Pearson, on Wednesday are launching a beta version of a virtual library.
Henrico County Public Schools (HCPS) has selected Beyond Books to provide the educational content the district will deliver to its laptop-equipped high school students beginning this fall. The school district, located just outside Richmond, Va., recently announced an agreement to purchase laptop computers for every middle and high school student and teacher. This is the […]
ETS Technologies, Inc. announced today its e-raterINTO automated essay scoring technology will be used within PricewaterhouseCoopers’ online learning portal providing U.S. Army soldiers convenient and easy access to higher education degrees and advanced training certifications. The e-rater technology will provide online assessment of soldiers’ writing skills for those soldiers seeking higher education via the Army […]
AARP has joined with Fathom, the e-Learning company created by the world’s leading educational and cultural institutions, to bring online learning and courses to AARP’s nearly 35 million members. Through a new learning area available on the AARP website at http://www.aarp.org/learn, the AARP will feature courses and free seminars from Fathom’s international network of universities, […]
An MBA is a hot commodity. So it seems only natural that the best MBA programs would analyze the market, target distribution to reach students, and develop courses based on industry trends and corporation needs. It may be natural, but it’s surprisingly rare. At Penn State, innovative professors and administrators have used business principles to […]
Abilene, an Internet2 backbone network, recently enabled Ethernet inventor and 3Com founder Bob Metcalfe to deliver a live HDTV presentation from MIT to the Networld+Interop exhibition floor in Las Vegas. Abilene now connects over 180 universities, with at least one university in each of the 50 states. Many more participants are on the way; recent […]
This weeks guest on LearningWeek Live is Brian Mikesell, Coordinator of e-Services for the St. John’s University Libraries. Mikesells responsibility is to provide leadership in the development and deployment of online library services for all five campuses of St. John’s University (four in New York and one in Rome, Italy). Mikesell works within the campus […]