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Optivision Enables First Real-Time Interactive, Multi-City, Multi-Track Music Video Recording Session — Groundbreaking Event Links Five University Campuses With World-Class Musicians Via Live Streaming Audio and Video

PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov 6, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Optivision(R) Inc., a leading provider of networked streaming video products, today announced the successful completion of the first ever multi-location music video recording session using real-time streaming video over Internet2(R) networks.

Navy Selects 16 Institutions for a Pilot Distance-Learning Program

THE U.S. NAVY has struck deals with 16 colleges to offer distance-learning degrees for sailors through a program that will begin on a pilot basis this January. The program will most likely be expanded to include additional colleges within the next few years.

OnlineLearning.net Will Start 2001 Offering More Than 250 Online Classes From UCLA Extension and the University of San Diego — Record Number Of Enrollments Drives Increase In Slate Of Course Offerings

LOS ANGELES, Nov 6, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Starting the Year 2001 with a record number of courses and programs, OnlineLearning.net — the leading online provider of continuing adult education nationwide — is delivering a slate of more than 250 courses from partners UCLA Extension and University of San Diego.

New Study Finds WebCT Used Extensively At 1,560 Colleges and Universities — Millward Brown IntelliQuest Study Finds 148,000 Faculty Will Be Teaching 303,000 WebCT Courses With 5.8 Million Actual Students In 11 Million Seats

LYNNFIELD, Mass. & VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov 6, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) — A new study conducted by Millward Brown IntelliQuest has found that WebCT is used extensively at the higher education portion of its customer base.

Global Classroom

Technology has made long distance learning more appealing prospect, writes Ronan Quinn

UK Government: Some Primary Pupils Failing to go the Distance, says OFSTED Report

NOV 6, 2000, M2 Communications – More than four out of five primary school pupils can swim 25 metres by the time they transfer to secondary school, school inspectors report today, but some schools are far more successful than others.

Indian Government: India and China Agree on Greater Cooperation in Education

NOV 6, 2000, M2 Communications – India and China have agreed on the need to have greater exchanges between the educational institutions in their countries. This emerged at a meeting between the delegations of the two sides headed by the Minister for Human Resource Development Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi and the Chinese Minister for Education […]

e4help Launches Interactive Web Classrooms for the Next Generation of e-Learning

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov 6, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) — e4help.com, an advanced multimedia software and services company, today launched its new live webcast product, e4Learn(TM). This web-enabled distance learning tool allows companies and organizations to host virtual classrooms and seminars that bring the interactive element to e-learning that has so far been missing.

Home workers Imperil Systems

The theory that hackers reached Microsoft Corp.’s product development servers via a home-based employee’s computer demonstrates why it’s critical for companies to ensure that their remote employees aren’t stepping-stones into the corporate network.

Consumer Two-way Satellite Internet Service Unveiled

STARBAND COMMUNICATIONS LAUNCHED a two-way satellite Internet service on Monday, promising high-speed access to millions of people in remote areas of the United States who don’t have access to broadband technologies from their telephone or cable operators as well as anyone else who has a clear view of the southern sky.