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The 11th annual e-learning Conference & Expo (formerly TeleCon East/IDLCON) offers professionals in the corporate, academic and government/military markets with the solutions, the strategies and the methods that make e-learning possible. The trade show floor offers services, content, resources and technology to accomplish an organization’s e-learning strategy. WHEN: Conference: Tuesday, April 17 — Friday, April […]
RESTON, Va., Jan 30, 2001 — VCampus(R) Corporation (NasdaqSC:VCMP), the leading e-Learning solution provider, announced today that it will provide hosted e-Learning solutions and customized courseware to the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare’s nationwide network of member organizations. The National Council is a nonprofit trade association serving the education, advocacy and networking needs of […]
The Independent Television Service (ITVS) and PBS.org debut the companion Web site to the documentary FROM SWASTIKA TO JIM CROW The television program will be broadcast nationally on PBS on February 1, 2001 at 10:00 p.m. (Check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/fromswastikatojimcrow) FROM SWASTIKA TO JIM CROW tells the untold story of the German Jewish professors […]
The basic idea is nothing new. Penn State has provided management training to businesses and organizations since 1915. What’s different about the new World Campus Supervisory Leadership Certificate Program is that, instead of requiring business people to travel across the country, or overseas, to acquire the training they need, now they can do it in […]
Amid the dark clouds over the Internet industry, the prospects of one sector — online higher education — are looking brighter.
NEW YORK, Jan 30, 2001 — Kaplan, Inc. and its Quest Education unit today announced that Quest College in Davenport, Iowa, the school charged with spearheading distance education initiatives, will be renamed Kaplan College. The Davenport school is accredited by the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the North Central Association of Colleges and […]
IN HOPES of making a required course more accessible to all students, officials at Florida Gulf Coast University set up a distance-education version reserved for students who could not attend in person. But a senior has complained that non-disabled students are being unfairly excluded from it.
A national authority on distance learning has been named to head up UMassOnline, a new educational initiative that will be launched Feb. 7. Read the UMass Press Release
(U-WIRE) SAN DIEGO — Whether academia likes it or not, online courses are growing at record pace, and thousands of students around the world are enrolling in these e-classes. But since San Diego State University cancelled registration with one online learning company 2learn2.com Inc., the future of online classes at the university is somewhat uncertain.
American e-learning companies may look across the Atlantic for a boost to their fledgling industry, but they face even more hurdles in Europe than they do on this side of the pond.