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Missouri Educational Technology Conference

2001: A Technology Odyssey October 7-9, 2001 Tan-Tar-A Resort Osage Beach, MO

Daily News Spring Break

Happy Spring During the week of April 9 – April 13, while news about education and training decreases considerably, the people who bring you the Daily News will be taking a well-deserved break. We hope you have a good week and we look forward to resuming our service on April 16, 2001. Please use our […]

Interface Design: In Your Face or Interface? by Vanessa Haakenson, M.A.

Successful products have at least one commonality, good interface design. As Don Norman says, “What’s wrong with interfaces? The question, for one. The interface is the wrong place to begin. It implies you already have done all the rest and now you want to patch it up to make it pretty for the user. That […]

Daily News Spring Break

Happy Spring! During the week of April 9 – April 13 the people who bring you the Daily News will be on vacation. We hope you have a good week and we look forward to resuming our service on April 16, 2001. Please use our database search to find recent news and information.

Shadow netWorkspace (SNS) An Advanced Teaching Application

It is called Shadow because it follows you wherever you go; your network space is accessible at any computer anywhere that has a connection to the Internet. SNS provides much of the functionality of a personal PC with the added benefit of being accessible from any computer anywhere via the World Wide Web. As Laffey, […]

MarketWatch.com and Pearson PLC’s Learning Network Team Up to Offer Online Personal Finance Courses

CHICAGO, Illinois — MarketWatch.com, Inc. (MKTW) , the Internet’s leading source of financial news and information, announced today that it will create and offer interactive, online personal finance courses in partnership with Learning Network, the Internet’s premier consumer-education source. The courses will be offered to paying subscribers through the company’s web site, CBS MarketWatch.com, as […]

Intel declares e-Learning the killer app

CHICAGO — “e-Learning will be the killer application over the next two to three years, with over half of IT training being done remotely,” said Sean Maloney, executive vice president of Intel Corp., at this week’s Comdex Spring show in Chicago.

MIT Cheered From a Distance

Distance educators on Wednesday applauded MIT’s plan to post its course materials online for free, and believe it will complement both traditional education and online education.

SUNY Buffalo Library School Renamed School of Informatics

The State University of New York at Buffalo has merged its Department of Library and Information Studies with the Department of Communication. The new unit is called the School of Informatics.

Motorola, WorldCom, and APTE Launch Wireless Classroom Pilot Program

SCHAUMBURG, Ill. — Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT), WorldCom (Nasdaq: WCOM) and APTE, Inc. announced today the launch of a pilot program to introduce wireless technology applications to the classroom. The Motorola Timeport™P935 personal interactive communicator, customized with Internet Coach® Learn Together™applications, and provided with wireless service by SkyTel, a WorldCom company, were assigned to each […]