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Distance Education and Virtual Reference: Where Are We Headed?

Back in the old days when I was going to college (not so very long ago, really), things were a little simpler. You walked to class—or drove, if you lived in L.A.—and you would sit in a room with a couple dozen friends and fellow students and take notes while you listened to your instructor […]

State higher education institutions to learn about online teaching

Faculty and administrators representing higher education institutions from throughout the state will assemble at the University of Central Oklahoma Friday to take part in a workshop designed to showcase the latest tool in education. Known as Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT), the online database offers teachers and students worldwide an academic, […]

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT: Electronic Dissemination of Government Publications

This report responds to the requirements in the conference report for the legislative branch appropriations for 2001 that we [United States General Accounting Office] study the impact of providing documents to the public solely in electronic format and assess the feasibility of transferring the depository library program to the Library of Congress.

E-learning explodes into communitty colleges

604 million students take part-time classes

For many students, distance learning is close enough

As e-courses become the college of choice for more degree-seekers, some educators see pitfalls.

MTN Delivers State-of-the-Art Distance Training to Holland American Passengers

MIRAMAR, Fla., April 3 /PRNewswire/ — Maritime Telecommunications Network (MTN), the leader in maritime telecommunications and a subsidiary of Verestar, Inc., is proud to announce it will provide the m.s. Veendam, a Holland America Line vessel, with the capability to broadcast live shore-side training seminars onboard their vessel.

Case Study: Distance Learning in Public Health

In recent years, interest in examining technology’s potential to meet training needs for public health professionals has generated new initiatives, such as the Enhancing Data Utilization Skills through Information Technology program.

SmarTeam Debuts mySmartMeeting To Provide Secure, Real-Time Conferencing and Collaboration Over the Internet

BEVERLY, Mass. — Furthering its strategy to deliver affordable e-collaborative product development capabilities to its manufacturing customers and their supply chains, Smart Solutions, a Dassault Systemes (Nasdaq: DASTY – news) company and its Americas subsidiary, SmarTeam Inc., a leading provider of rapidly-implemented business collaboration solutions for small-to-medium-sized manufacturing organizations, today announced mySmartMeeting. The new powerful, […]

McGraw-Hill Higher Education Offers Digital Textbooks through netLibrary’s Metatext

NEW YORK — McGraw-Hill Higher Education, a unit of McGraw-Hill Education and a leading provider of electronic learning solutions for the college market, today announced it has formed an alliance with MetaText, netLibrary’s digital textbook division, to develop electronic versions of its college textbooks that will be ready for review this spring. In a move […]

Virtual Academics Announces Wireless Initiative

BOCA RATON, Fla. — Steven M. Bettinger, president and CEO of Virtual Academics (OTC Bulletin Board: VADC – news), said today that VADC’s plans to develop systems and courses for wireless education and training are proceeding. “We believe the academic delivery systems that we are developing and testing will change distance learning for schools and […]