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WASHINGTON, DC — Pressured by a competitive global environment where it is being squeezed between the OECD countries and the developing countries of East Asia, Korea must ratchet up its pursuit of the knowledge economy, says a new joint World Bank- Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) study. Korea is a country with limited […]
Boston University, in cooperation with National Technological University and PBS: The Business & Technology Network, will launch its online Distinguished Lecture Series on April 20, 2001 and extending through June 2001. One to three-day short courses covering state-of-the-art engineering topics will be delivered in distance-learning format. Courses will cover such topics as High Speed Photodetectors, […]
DALLAS — HighTechCampus, a premier e-learning solutions provider, today announced it has secured a second round of funding with a $4 million infusion from Tobat Capital. “This second round of funding — at a time when venture capitalists are requiring a proven path to profitability before investing — is an extreme vote of confidence for […]
NAPERVILLE, Ill.– NETg, powering intelligent decisions through learning, has signed an agreement with Michigan Virtual University (MVU) to provide the state’s education system with a comprehensive online learning program. The courses will be available to as many as 850,000 faculty, staff and students in Michigan’s K-12, University and community college systems. This program, the broadest […]
BRISBANE, Calif. — Classroom Connect, Inc. (www.classroom.com), the leading provider of Internet-based curriculum products and professional development programs for K-12 education, today announced its receipt of the Fund for Improvement of Postsecondary Education/Learning Anytime Anyplace Program (FIPSE/LAAP) grant as part of a partnership to develop a new online professional development community. As the commercial partner […]
Not personally of course, and unfortunately, not literally. But Pavlik, the director of the Center for New Media at New York’s Columbia University, is conducting research with his students on a technology that may be the next best thing to time travel. Or at least, that will be the case until quantum physicists finally figure […]
USERS OF THE Symantec Norton AntiVirus software may have problems getting their e-mail when the program’s e-mail filter fails to run properly.
NORTEL NETWORKS HAS announced a partnership aimed at delivering streaming media over its wireless and IP services platforms.
NEW YORK — CMP Media Inc., publisher of Technology & Learning magazine, will hold the fourth annual SchoolTech Exposition & Conference (www.schooltechexpo.com) in New York later this month. The technology conference & exposition, which provides technological professional development to over 3,000 K-12 educators each year will take place March 28-31, 2001, at the Marriott Marquis […]
Tuition for full-time students at The Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood campus in Baltimore will increase just over 5 percent in 2001-2002, in part to cover operating costs of a new student arts center and a recreation center that will open this fall.