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ITVS Launches Website for BORN IN THE U.S.A. Airing on PBS

ITVS Launches Website for BORN IN THE U.S.A. Airing on PBS’s Independent Lens series on October 23, 2000 (check local listings at www.itvs.org/bornintheusa) (San Francisco) – The Independent Television Service (ITVS) debuts the BORN IN THE U.S.A. website (www.itvs.org/bornintheusa), a companion site to the ITVS-funded documentary. BORN IN THE U.S.A. takes a critical look at […]

OnlineLearning.net’s Six New Partnerships Expand Presence in Educational, Corporate, Technology and Association Markets

LOS ANGELES, (BUSINESS WIRE) — OnlineLearning.net, the premier supplier of continuing higher education on the Internet, announced today new strategic partnerships with About.com, LeapIt.com, The Chauncey Group International, Prosoft, AssociationCentral.com, and CyberU.

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An Online Course Teaches How to Enjoy — and Evaluate — Poems for Children

Part of an occasional series of course snapshots.

West Virginia Digital K-12 Education Information Technology Ranked Fifth Nationally

CHARLESTON, W.Va., Oct 16, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — West Virginia’s acumen for utilizing information technologies in K-12 education operations has been ranked fifth nationally in the “Digital State Survey” conducted by The Progress & Freedom Foundation and Center for Digital Government.

Dot-com or dot-edu?

As the Internet puts its stamp on the way people learn, traditional universities are taking on the characteristics of dot-com companies. Is this a good thing?

Report: Digital Divide Widens

The Commerce Department says minorities are gaining access at a quick pace but lag behind the national average.

Faxon Partners With Kluwer Academic Publishers To Negotiate E-Journal Licenses for IUPUI — New Vendor/Publisher Acquisition Model Provides Library Community with Streamlined E-journal Access

WESTWOOD, Mass., Oct 17, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Negotiating on behalf of the IUPUI University Library, Faxon, RoweCom Academic & Medical Services (NASDAQ:ROWE) today signed an agreement to license seven electronic journals with Kluwer Academic Publishers, setting in motion a new vendor/publisher e-journal acquisition model that dramatically changes and simplifies the way libraries obtain access […]

Internet Top Guns Talk About Haves, Have-Nots

SEATTLE — Amazon.com Inc. CEO Jeff Bezos told a conference on solving the digital divide that a few customers around the world have figured out a way to buy books online, even if they don’t have a credit card.

YORK UNIVERSITY: New schools offer students wide range of programs; York University melds higher education with demands of workplace at new Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies

OCT 17, 2000, M2 Communications – TORONTO — York University is responding to the rising demand for a university education that also provides job skills and professional accreditation for the workplace with the newly reorganized Joseph E. Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies. The new Faculty will serve both part-time adult learners and full-time […]