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UNESCO Publishes Community Telecentre Cookbook for Africa

The Telecentre Cookbook for Africa: Recipes for Self-Sustainability is a step-by-step guide on how to implement community-based telecentres in an African environment, complete with examples of telecentre infrastructure, baseline questionnaires and business plans.

Verizon offers online shield

With the requirement to safeguard kids use of the Web mandated by the Childrens Internet Protection Act of 2000, telecommunications giant Verizon Communications thinks now is a good time to extend managed security services to schools and libraries.

State funnels cash to tech centers

Communities and organizations throughout Illinois are getting more than $30 million in grant money to help eliminate the digital divide.

Education Ministers release vision statement for on-line learning

The Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC) released today a pan-Canadian vision statement for on-line learning. Building on efforts already initiated by Ministers of education and postsecondary education, the common vision statement is intended to help Canada’s provinces and territories continue as leaders in the emerging world of e-education. “Individually and as a group, […]

eCollege(SM) Promotes Matthew Schnittman To Vice President of Professional Services

eCollege(SM) (NASDAQ:ECLG), a leading provider of eLearning software and services to the higher education market, today announced that it promoted Matthew Schnittman to vice president of Professional Services, overseeing all customer service aspects of the company, including Client Services, Help Desk, Course Development, Instructional Design, and Program Consulting. “Customer service is our top priority, and […]

Big Online Job Service Acquires Web Site on College Admissions and Scholarships

TMP Worldwide, the company that owns the job-ads Web site Monster.com, announced Thursday that it had acquired FastWeb, a site that helps high-school students search for colleges and scholarships

Altvia to develop Web-based courses

Altvia Technologies, Inc. of Rockville, Md., has been selected by the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) to develop and host e-Learning courses for its members. AACRAO is a nonprofit higher education association of more than 9,000 admissions and registrar professionals representing approximately 2,300 institutions in more than 35 countries.

Western Governors University Forms Articulation Agreements With Three Community College Consortiums

SALT LAKE CITY – July 12, 2001 – Western Governors University (WGU) today announced that it has formed articulation and transfer agreements with three community college consortiums – the Community Colleges of the State of Nebraska, The League for Innovation in the Community College, and Maricopa County Community College District. WGU already has articulation agreements […]

Online glitches delay medical school apps

Applicants to medical schools across the country this year have had one more source of stress during an already stressful time — problems with the introduction of Internet-based applications, which have stubbornly resisted designers’ attempts at fixes, have delayed the normally rigid process by a month.

New TutorsEdge Virtual Classroom With Live 2-Way Voice Piloted by Apex Learning and University of California College Prep -UCCP-

TutorsEdge, Inc., an innovative provider of online, interactive, live instruction technology, today announced an agreement with Bellevue, Washington-based Apex Learning, a builder and operator of virtual schools, to pilot world-class synchronous virtual classroom technology with students of the University of California College Prep Initiative. Selected UCCP students will take part in scheduled, real-time, online tutorials […]