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Insinuating IT Skills Development Everywhere in the Curriculum

April 29-May 1, 2001 Focus: This conference will focus on successful strategies for identifying, developing, and assessing the IT skills students need to succeed as learners and researchers in their academic and early professional

ActiveEducation Facilitates E-Business Strategies by Releasing Seven New E-Learning Courses and GuideBooks in the ActiveEducation E-BizTech Series

GOLDEN, Colo., — ActiveEducation, Inc. (ActiveEducation), an innovator in the e-learning industry offering online courses and GuideBooks on e-business technologies and desktop applications, today introduced six new E-Biz Tech e-learning courses: XML Introduction, Intermediate, and Advanced; Introduction to Java; Introduction to ASP; and Introduction to HTML and one new GuideBook: XML Globalization and Best Practices: […]

VTEL Reports Second Quarter Financial Results for Fiscal Year 2001

Progress in Q2 Continues Positive Trends Established in Fiscal First Quarter

McGraw-Hill Ryerson: Study Shows Importance of Web-based Tools Increasing in Canadian Colleges and Universities

OTTAWA, Ontario — An independent study sponsored by McGraw-Hill Ryerson revealed that the importance of websites, e-learning software and other Web-based instructional tools has increased dramatically in Canadian higher education institutions and is a significant factor in achieving student success. “This study revealed that while college and university teachers continue to emphasize traditional objectives such […]

Library Associations file Amicus Brief in Tasini case

QUESTION PRESENTED Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in ruling that 17 U.S.C. 201(c) does not confer upon commercial electronic database publishers the privilege of reproducing and distributing Respondents copyrighted articles in and through the commercial electronic databases described in the Second Circuit’s ruling.

Montgomery College Selects Eduprise, Inc. to Expand e-Learning Program

MORRISVILLE, N.C. — Eduprise, the leading provider of enterprise e-Learning services for educational institutions and businesses, has been awarded a three-year contract to provide strategic planning, infrastructure migration and hosting support services, and instructional development services to assist Montgomery College (Montgomery County, Maryland) as its scales support for e-Learning to the enterprise level. “We view […]

First Internet2 Live Distributed Musical Staged by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and NYU

Watch the performance online

‘Facing History’ Online

n the Crayola Crayons Web site you can pick up some fascinating trivia: — Tiger Woodss favorite crayon is wild strawberry. — the most popular color as of January 31 is blue. — the flesh-colored crayon was renamed peach in 1962 “partially as a result of the U.S. civil rights movement.”

CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media Partners with America Online to Explore Ways to Make Interactive TV Accessible to Blind and Visually Impaired Audiences

Press release – February 21, 2001Boston, MA– The Corporation for Public Broadcasting/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) today announced the launch of an innovative research partnership with America Online, Inc., a division of AOL Time Warner Inc. and the world’s leading interactive services company, to help make interactive television more accessible to people with […]

Negative Campaign Ads Have A Lasting Impact On Voters, According To Two Uga Researchers

ATHENS, Ga. — Negative campaign ads can be an effective tool for delivering messages. Two faculty members at the University of Georgia found that the impact of negative campaign ads persists and even increases over time, instead of decreasing. An article they published on that research, The Sleeper Effect and Negative Political Advertising, was recently […]