Apex Learning lays off 55 employees
Apex Learning Inc. cut 55 employees yesterday — about one-third of its staff — to complete the transition to a new business model, company officials confirmed Tuesday.
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What Is E-Learning?
THE TERM E-LEARNING may be trendy, but the concept itself has been around for decades. E-learning is training that takes place through a network, usually over the Internet or a company intranet.
Are You Fed Up With Burdensome Higher Education Regulations?
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Citing a desire to continue the positive efforts to simplify burdensome regulations made in the Higher Education Act reauthorization of 1998, Rep. Howard P. Buck McKeon (R-CA) announced a new effort to streamline bureaucracy in higher education policy in a speech to the American Council of Education, an organization representing postsecondary associations. […]
CALL FOR CHAPTERS: Design and Implementation of Web-Enabled Teaching Tools
As the multifaceted environment of the Internet continues to evolve, web accessibility has become a major issue in terms of providing effective communication to the public. In the last five years, the United States Department of Justice and the United States Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights (OCR) have upheld decisions making public entities […]
The Cable Center Creates Distance Learning Program With C-SPAN and The University of Denver
DENVER — The Cable Center announced today that it has formed a partnership with the University of Denver (DU) and C-SPAN to create an innovative, television-based distance learning program at The Cable Center. The project will link DU and eventually other students to Washington, D.C., for courses in political communication using C-SPAN programming. The five-year […]
Troubled Lernout & Hauspie put up for sale
Philippe Bodson, the president and CEO of Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products NV, put the troubled Belgian speech technology developer up for sale today.
Planning to Pay for College? Check Out a 529 College Savings Plan
A study commissioned by Strong Capital Management finds that 68 percent of parents anticipate paying at least half of their children’s higher education expenses, and more than one-quarter of these parents foresee footing the whole bill. Moreover, the study, conducted by TeleNation, found parents expect the total tab for higher education to cost between $50,000 […]
Web Archive Opens a New Realm of Research
Lubos Motl, an undergraduate physics student at Charles University in Prague, was not feeling very cheerful over the Christmas holidays in 1996. His family was shaken by instability, he was suffering chronic stomach pain and he had just been hospitalized after a serious accident at home. And no one at the university knew much about […]
UH expands distance learning offerings
The University of Hawaii has decided to put more education online, offering business courses and other instruction on the “distance learning” track that lets Neighbor Island students essentially take classes on the Internet.
U. Toledo tuition increase a must, says Trustee’s Chairman
Less money from the state and increasing costs will be on the minds of University of Toledo’s trustees in June as they consider a 6- percent tuition hike for next year.