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Board Backs Plans for Student Laptop Computers

IT proposal calls for $123m from state Citing the need to improve information technology at the state public campuses, the Board of Higher Education this week approved a $123 million plan that would require students to buy and use their own laptop computers.

Prometric Forms Joint Venture With Recruit Group To Extend Reach Of Computer-Based Testing In Asia Market

Baltimore, Md. – October 2000 – Prometric, the technology-based testing division of Thomson Learning, announced today the formation of a joint venture with the Recruit Group, Japans leading employment information-based publisher. The new company, to be based in Tokyo, will be called R-Prometric. Prometric, building upon its existing operations in Japan, has formed the joint […]

Internet Entrepreneur Goes Live Online at the OU

Dr Murdoch set up an internet bookshop Bookpages in 1996, becoming a multi-millionaire when he sold it to Amazon.com two years later. He was made managing director of Amazon.co.uk, launched the UK website, and subsequently became Amazons vice president in Europe. Dr Murdoch left Amazon last year to co-found Episode-1 Partners, Britains largest dedicated internet […]

Educational Firms Form Global Link

McLean-based GlobalLearningSystems Inc. today will announce an alliance with 16 corporate training companies, based from Chile to China, that it hopes will give it a worldwide reach in offering Internet learning services to schools and corporations.

People Can Check Out Tech at Libraries

The New York Public Library will use a private grant to create public technology training centers at several of their branches.

Content Syndication and Online Learning Using the Content Syndication Format – RSS (Rich Site Summary) – in an Educational Environment.

The paper divides into two parts. In the first part it defines and describes the RSS (Rich Site Summary) format and its emerging use as a format for content syndication by news and media organizations on the world wide web. Through the use of working models and demonstrations, the development, display and distribution of content […]

Exploring New Directions in Online Learning Complete Notes From a Full Day Pre-conference at NAWeb 2000

The session covered emerging issues, trends, and technologies shaping the future growth and development of online learning. The session focused on the following issues: Knowledge Managment Learning Objects Sectoral Communities

Take A Bite Out of College Costs

Next to buying a home, paying for a childs college education may be the largest single expenditure a family ever makes. Participate in the Desktop Lecture Series with Jack Joyce Tuesday, October 24, 2000 – 8:30 p.m. EDT For more than 25 years, Jack Joyce has written, spoken, taught, and consulted with students and parents […]

At MIT, a Division on the Divide

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts. — With a list of panelists that included former heads of state as well as up-and-coming hip-hop artists, there was bound to be some heterogeneity. But with a roster of more than 300 participants from all parts of the globe, the first Harvard/MIT eDevelopment conference joined more diverse causes under one banner than […]

Prince George’s Joins Home-School Trend

For years, Anna Fogg felt as if she and her husband, Reon, must be the only African Americans on the planet who taught their children at home.