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OnlineLearning: Roadwarriors To get its e-learning system up and running quickly, the Ford Design Institute needed a pit crew of competent vendors.

When Roscoe Nash, Jr., became dean of the Ford Design Institute (FDI) in June 1997, he was given an Excursion-sized order: to get nearly 20,000 engineers and technical employees through 160 hours of training in four years.

Virtual Academics.com Introduces Employee Skills Enhancement Training Initiative Distance Learning Provider to Capitalize on Projected Multi-Billion Dollar Online Corporate Training Budgets

BOCA RATON, FL, September 5th, 2000 – VirtualAcademics.com, Inc. (OTC BB: VADC), an online distance learning company, announced today that it has signed an agreement with OfficeTec.com to offer its courses to those employment seeking individuals looking to upgrade their skills or re-train in preparation for the job market or career change. “OfficeTec.com is the […]

Recent ERIC Digest Titles of Interest to Distance Educators

ED436528 Effective Teaching in Distance Education. * ED435382 Change in the Age of Technology: A New Look at Licensing & Copyright for Colleges & Universities. * ED436187 Evaluation of World Wide Web Sites: An Annotated Bibliography. * ED436009 Online Resources for K-12 Teachers: Children’s & Adolescent Literature. * ED435582 Teaching Social Studies with the Internet. […]

Videos of presentations by Johns Hopkins University researchers Geoffrey D. Borman and Karl Alexander, recorded during a recent national conference on summer learning held at Hopkins, are now available on the World Wide Web.

Videos of presentations by Johns Hopkins University researchers Geoffrey D. Borman and Karl Alexander, recorded during a recent national conference on summer learning held at Hopkins, are now available on the World Wide Web. Borman’s talk offers an overview of what research has been conducted nationally on summer school and summer learning loss. Alexander gives […]

Indus International Launches eLearning Initiative Powered by DocentPartnership with Docent, Inc. Creates Premiere Web-Based Training Solution

San Francisco, CA – Indus International (NASDAQ:IINT), a leading provider of Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) solutions introduces Indus Learning Center ONLINE, a web-based learning service for maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) professionals. Developed in partnership with Docent, Inc., a provider of award-winning eLearning and knowledge exchange technology, Indus Learning Center ONLINE offers training options specially […]

Former Lucent Technologies Executive Joins JonesKnowledge.com as Group Vice President of Sales

DENVER (August 23, 2000) – JonesKnowledge.com, Inc., a leader in the development and deployment of e-learning solutions for corporations and educational institutions worldwide, today announced that Craig Sawicki has joined the JonesKnowledge.com management team as group vice president of sales. Mr. Sawicki will oversee the sales organization, driving JonesKnowledge.coms continued leadership as a service provider […]

Saba Deploys World’s First National eLearning Network Saba Learning Management Solution Designed to ‘UpSkill’ Norway’s Citizenry; The Competence Network Increases Availability of Continuing Education, Reduces Training-Related Costs

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. – A milestone development in the global eLearning industry takes place tomorrow in Norway, when the forward-thinking country launches a nationwide Internet-based learning network developed by eLearning infrastructure leader Saba (Nasdaq: SABA). The national deployment to “upskill” millions in the Norwegian workforce was established by The Competence Network of Norwegian Business and […]

Eduventures.com Analyses the E-Learning Growth Trends in the Higher Education Market

BOSTON — August 16, 2000– In a newly released report, Eduventures.com provides an independent evaluation and framework for colleges, universities and service providers to understand the potential growth of e-learning in the higher education marketplace. In E-Learning Accelerates into the Higher Education Market, Eduventures.com predicts that as many as 50 percent of postsecondary institutions will […]

International Workshop on Advanced Learning Technologies

The International Workshop on Advanced Learning Technologies (IWALT 2000) took place very successfully by bringing together researchers, academics and industry practitioners who are involved or interested in the design and development of advanced and emerging learning technologies. About 130 participants from 20 countries from all continents of the world attended the event. The feedback from […]

Click ‘n learn No traffic, no 9 a.m. classes. Learning online is booming – and may fundamentally change the face of higher education

Mark Clayton, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor For eight centuries, university students have trudged to classrooms where higher learning was dispensed face to face by a frequently learned, sometimes wizened, occasionally clueless professor. If you didn’t want to march to class that was fine. You might not graduate. Now Stephanie Currier, a Washington, […]