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Textbook pages never rustle during a University of Virginia seminar about the Salem witch trials, because printed books have been replaced by electronic ones. Students in the experimental course were lent hand-held computers loaded with several assigned textbooks, as well as electronic versions of every warrant, indictment, and deposition from the trials.
PictureTel®, the world leader in visual and audio collaboration, and its partner Pinacl Communications Systems, have secured one of the largest videoconferencing projects ever undertaken in Europe. They have been commissioned by the United Kingdom Education and Research Networking Association, (UKERNA®), to supply an 80-suite videoconferencing network for Welsh Further Education Colleges and Higher Education […]
MICROSOFT ON THURSDAY unveiled a revamped licensing program designed to encourage enterprises to buy software through a subscription model.
When large businesses need to buy Microsofts software for hundreds of computers, they dont back up a truck to the door of their local computer store. They sign volume-licensing agreements.
SBC Communications — the U.S. telco in the midst of a $6 billion broadband building spree — is stepping up plans to offer ultra-fast fiber connections.
E-learning experts will meet next month in New York and San Diego to examine the creation of dynamic e-learning environments. The Conference Boards 2001 E-Learning Conferences will be held June 14-15 at the Hilton New York and June 21-22 at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina. These meetings are sponsored by Intellinex and presented […]
Macromedia has introduced a new accessibility starter kit designed to help educators and web authors to build, diagnose and retrofit web content in support of the Section 508 legislation. The toolkit includes information about accessibility, a new, free extension for Dreamweaver that will assist developers check web sites for accessibility, and provide reports and tools […]
Education Development Center (EDC), Inc. of Newton, Massachusetts announces the latest release of the online version of its publication Mosaic. Mosaic is an occasional journal produced and published 2-3 times a year by EDC. Each issue examines a key education or public health topic through profiles of selected EDC projects. This issue of Mosaic elaborates […]
This Statistics in Brief presents data on Internet access in U.S. public schools from 1994 to 2000 by school characteristics. It provides trend analysis on the progress of public schools and classrooms in connecting to the Internet, the ratio of students to instructional computers and to instructional computers with Internet access, and the types of […]
AN ORGANIZATION COMPRISED of state CIOs is constructing an online exchange to promote the reuse of components when building applications.