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VBrick Enables Live Video on Cisco IP/TV

Low-Cost Network Video Appliance Compatible With IP/TV Enables Live Video Directly to the Desktop

Apex Learning and Milwaukee Public Schools Launch Virtual Schools in 21 High Schools

Twenty-fourth Largest School District in the Nation Provides Online Advanced Placement Courses

Ridge Administration Announces 30 PA Schools Competing to Become Nation’s First Two `Digital School Districts’

CARLISLE, Pa., Nov. 1 /PRNewswire/ — On behalf of Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, Education Secretary Eugene W. Hickok today announced that 30 school districts will advance in a statewide competition to become the nation’s first two “Digital School Districts.”

A Flamboyant Online Bookseller Goes Out of Business

Bigwords.com, an online bookseller that promoted itself on college campuses with attention-grabbing marketing stunts, has made an uncharacteristically quiet exit from the student-retailing business.

Learning Tree International Climbs the Ranks of Forbes Magazine’s ‘200 Best Small Companies’

Nov. 2, 2000–Learning Tree International (Nasdaq:LTRE – news), a global leader in IT education and training, announced that it has been named one of Forbes Magazine’s “200 Best Small Companies” as featured in the October 30, 2000 issue.

Virtual Learn and Alamo Learning Systems Partner to Provide Innovative Training Programs for New ISO 9000 Standards

OAKLAND, Calif. (BUSINESS WIRE) – Virtual Learn Inc., the onramp to eLearning, and Alamo Learning Systems have teamed up to help U.S. companies, and California companies in particular, meet the new requirements of the revised ISO 9000 standards system using an innovative, multi-media learning solution.

Stock Focus: Corporate Training

On-the-job training is a big business, and it is getting even bigger.

Virtual U Game Released

NEW YORK, NY (November 2, 2000) — The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Jackson Hole Higher Education Group, and Enlight Software are proud to announce the release of Virtual U: Game Version, a stripped down version of Virtual U, the software that simulates a university system, and provides a compelling new way to understand and […]

Online learning advances

A new Tennessee Board of Regents program that allows students to earn a diploma with just a computer and Internet connection will transform classroom teaching, Chancellor Charles Manning said.

An Online Course Takes Another Look at the Vietnam War

AN ONLINE COURSE offered by a professor at California’s Citrus College examines the controversies and questions surrounding the Vietnam War. Some of the topics students explore include the origins of Vietnamese nationalism and the strategies and tactics of the United States.