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Army Selects SMARTHINKING for Online Tutoring Services As Part of Army University Access Online Initiative

WASHINGTON, May 8 — SMARTHINKING today announced that its services will be used within PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP’s online learning portal solution recently selected by the US Army to provide soldiers with convenient and easy access to higher education degrees and advanced training certifications. Under this agreement, every student-soldier enrolled through Army University Access Online will receive […]

Michigan Virtual University Expands Learning Capabilities Through Partnership with Learnframe, Leading e-Learning Platform Developing Company

Lansing, MI, Draper UT, May 8, 2001 — Michigan Virtual University (MVU), a private, not-for-profit organization dedicated to online education and training, and Learnframe, the leading developer of e-Learning infrastructure technologies and KnowledgE-Commerce™ solutions, today announced their partnership to support the statewide Information Technology Training Initiative in Michigan. The Initiative, announced by Michigan Governor John […]

XML finding favor among developers

Web developers have increased their use of extensible markup language (XML) over the last six months, an international study has found.

Europe’s First eLearning Summit in Brussels (10-11 May)

Viviane Reding, European Commissioner in charge of Education and Culture, will host the first eLearning Summit, organised together with the industry, in La Hulpe, Brussels, at the end of this week. Ministers and representative of leading ICT and multimedia companies will examine possible publicprivate partnerships for the implementation of the eLearning Action Plan adopted by […]

HEWI/NASFAA Distance Education Conference to Address Distance Education Financial Aid Barriers

WASHINGTON, May 8– Addressing the financial aid barriers to distance education students, such as the 50 percent rule, is not only a topic of discussion for the House Education and the Workforce Committee’s new FED UP (Upping the Effectiveness of Our Federal Student Aid Programs) project, but it will also be addressed during the Distance […]

Syllabus Magazine

May 2001 Issue

Smeal College Researchers Push The Digital Frontier

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA-Ten faculty members and researchers in Penn State’s Smeal College of Business have contributed chapters to the new book, Pushing the Digital Frontier: Insights into the Changing Landscape of E-Business.

The Virtual Training Suite

The Virtual Training Suite is a set of online tutorials designed to help students, lecturers and researchers improve their Internet information skills. The tutorials offer self-directed learning, take around an hour each to complete, and include quizzes and interactive exercises to lighten the learning experience.

FCC’s E-Rate Proposal Would ‘Spread the Wealth’

Schools and districts in highly impoverished communities that have been getting first crack at federal E-rate discounts for wiring classrooms and building telecommunications networks may have to share more of that aid with schools that are not quite as poor, under a proposal by the Federal Communications Commission.

Walden Institute to Offer the Web’s First Real-time Synchronous Learning Program

Bonita Springs, FL – Walden Institute, a leader in providing online certificate and professional development programs in technology, business and management, is now offering the first Certified Synchronous Instructor (CSI) Program conducted completely online. The eight-week CSI Program will teach corporate and academic instructors to design and deliver live Web-based instruction and presentations. In Walden’s […]