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With Northern Illinois University enrollment increasing since 1996, many colleges around campus are feeling the crunch as both students and faculty attempt to make the best use of limited space.
Educators predicting that online education will attract droves of students can cite as evidence the overwhelming popularity of an Open University course called “You, Your Computer and the Net”: Both times the course has been offered, more than 12,000 students in the United Kingdom have participated.
In an effort to help federal agencies take processes online, Digital Signature Trust (DST), an affiliate of Zions Bancorporation (Nasdaq: ZION – news), today unveiled its Electronic Transaction Risk Assessment (ETRA(SM)) service. Under GPEA (Government Paperwork Elimination Act), agencies are required to undertake an in-depth analysis of their authentication requirements before taking transactions online. ETRA […]
Motorola (NYSE:MOT) today announced that Mobile Wireless Technologies (a wholly owned subsidiary of Virtual Academics.com) (OTCBB:VADC), a leading online distance learning and corporate training provider, has developed a software application that can allow students access to classroom and corporate training information wirelessly. The applications will deliver student and teacher information, curricula and testing to schools […]
Lightspeed Interactive, Inc., a business in a superior content management and delivery platform that allows seamless integration with existing enterprise systems. OmniSITE distributes personalized course materials to individual learners based on their specific needs and levels of competency, maximizing learning effectiveness, said Chris Pearsall, Sr. Vice President of Marketing and Sales for Lightspeed Interactive. Our […]
The World Wide Web Consortium yesterday released the first public working drafts of the Simple Object Access Protocol 1.2 specification, to solicit comments ahead of a final recommendation. The W3C said version 1.2 is compatible with other recently issued specs such as XML Schema, and features “a refined processing model, which reduces ambiguities created by […]
Temple University has quietly shut down the fledgling for-profit spinoff company that it created in late 1999 with the hope of making money from distance education.
With the new BiNOS (BATM Inter Networking Operating System), T6 offers simplified installation plus ease of operation and provisioning through a broad range of IEEE standards based administration, management, and network security features. Other T6 features that fall under the BiNOS umbrella include: Link Aggregation — Dynamically broadens bandwidth between switches helping to circumvent possible […]
HPT’s first series of Custom QuickWareINTO courses cover workplace violence, sexual harassment, positive employee relations, new hire orientation, privacy awareness, and information security. E-learning courses under development will cover workplace diversity, communication skills and compliance issues that affect services and manufacturing industries. “A quality e-learning program, with a corporation’s look and feel, is becoming one […]
MOREnet is one of the first state education networks to receive designation as a Sponsored Educational Group Participant (SEGP) under a new policy sponsored by the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development (UCAID), the organization leading both the Internet2 and Abilene projects. Through this program, the MOREnet network is now connected to Internet2. More information