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The progress of an industry-initiated high-tech charter school in San Diego is sparking interest from technology leaders seeking to boost the number of students graduating with marketable technology skills. (Free Registration Required)
TASHKENT, Nov 1, 2000 — (Times of Central Asia) In the age of globalization, the process of intense social differentiation taking place in the CIS countries, and in Uzbekistan in particular, goes along with intensive informational differentiation. The latter, against sociologists’ opinions, is not directly connected with the financial situation of this or that social […]
MADISON – John P. Morgridge, Chairman of the Board of Cisco Systems and a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will be a keynote speaker at the Wisconsin Economic Summit, scheduled for the Midwest Express Center in Milwaukee November 29-December 1.
A growing debate in Mexico over distance education has pitted populists against the pro-business team of the president-elect, Vicente Fox, whom critics accuse of abandoning the country’s proud tradition of free public education.
Woburn, MA (October 30, 2000) Through an agreement with H.W.Wilson, booktech.com (AMEX: BTC, news, msgs), a first mover in digital and on-demand custom content publishing, will make the content of the Wilson OmniFile: Full Text Mega Edition available on its Web site to the growing number of educators interested in creating custom teaching materials. This […]
Researchers say children learn very differently when using computers at home than they do in school.
CENTER CITY, Minn., Nov 1, 2000 (BW HealthWire) — When Minnesota-based Hazelden Foundation began offering internet-based distance learning through www.DLCAS.COM in 1998, they were spotting the first signs of a change in the culture of addiction prevention and treatment. Hazelden projected–correctly, it’s turned out–that with an increasingly diverse group of health and human service organizations […]
It’s also never a simple mission to get everyone together for a live, group meeting. As Benny Bachand, Assistant Adjutant General at VFW explained, “Our organization was exploring innovative and efficient ways to inform the membership in the U.S. about the various programs available to them. We also wanted to cover community service, highlight correct […]
(October 30, 2000) Companies interested in using XML-based documents such as purchase orders or invoices for their business-to-business transactions got some long-awaited news last week.
Integrate TV and Internet in the remote corporate teaching is one of the goals of Dtcom, to start operations in the Brazilian market in the early November 2000. With R$15mil investment the company expects to train the employees of its clients via TV or computer.