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Findings from the Survey on Advanced Telecommunications in U.S. Private Schools: 1998-99

Findings from the Survey on Advanced Telecommunications in U.S. Private Schools: 1998-99 show an increase in computer and Internet availability in private schools since the survey was first conducted in 1995. For example, the number of students per computer decreased from nine to six, the porportion of private schools connected to the Internet increased from […]

Governor Ryan Opens First Day of Classes for Illinois Virtual High School

On Monday, January 8, 2001, Governor George H. Ryan launched the first day of classes for Illinois’ newest high school, providing expanded opportunities for high school students in public and nonpublic schools, as well as those educated at home.

Distance-Educator.com’s Zine Is Going Weekly!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 17, 2001, SAN DIEGO, January 17, 2001 – – We are pleased to announce that starting January 22, 2001, Distance-Educator.com’s Zine, will be published on a weekly basis, instead of bi-weekly as in the past. We will continue to feature: articles from leaders in the field book and software reviews, a […]

OnlineCSU Receives Funding For Two New Programs in Data Mining

For Immediate Release HARTFORD, Conn., Jan. 12 — The Connecticut State University in conjunction with Central Connecticut State University has received $60,000 in grants to develop and offer two new online programs leading to a certificate or a master’s degree in data mining. Both the certificate program and the master’s degree program, which may be […]

Four Major Research Universities Form Alliance for Distance Education

University of California, Berkeley; Penn State; University of Washington; And University of Wisconsin Work Together for Distance Education Benchmarking.

Educational Video Conferencing Wins RFP to Provide Distance Learning Initiative to Brooklyn Public Library

EVCI agreement with nation’s fifth largest public library viewed as first step in providing IP-based teleconferencing technology, equipment, technical training and videoconferencing services to public libraries

PBS, NPR Will Join Forces on Web Programming, Promotion

Media * The initiative, billed as a ‘strategic alliance,’ stops short of on-air production ventures, for now.

ADL Releases Version 1.1 of the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM)

News and Events Full Story January 16, 2001 ADL Releases Version 1.1 of the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) WASHINGTON, D.C., January 16, 2001 – The Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Laboratory (ADL Co-Lab) has achieved a major milestone in the development of common open-architecture specifications for “net-centric” learning. The ADL Initiative is a collaborative effort […]

Voice recognition improves

NEW YORK, Jan. 15 — In the movies, computers are always good listeners. In real life, they only hear what they want to hear.

Storage Computer Introduces Advanced Video Storage, Archiving and Delivery Technology for Distance Learning, Cable TV, Education Markets

New ‘Teleserver’ Product Line offers customers significant cost, time.