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Norway is claiming a world first with nationwide internet-based adult learning. A joint effort by businesses and trade unions has resulted in The Competence Network (NKN), designed to bring online learning opportunities to millions of people.
CIBER, with the expertise of its Internet Services National Practice, teamed up with WSSU’s marketing, public relations and information technology departments to establish standards for its updated web site, making the site interactive, database driven and transactional to automate key administrative processes. CIBER developed the overall architecture and application code and redesigned the site to […]
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA … While much attention has been focused on the need to improve the quality of education and information given students in classrooms nationwide, very little in the way of solid, substantive solutions have been offered. As teachers are the key to the growth and success of students, so, too, is the ease […]
Mountain View, CA (August 9, 2000) — HearMe (Nasdaq: HEAR), a proven leader in providing advanced, real-time voice communication technologies today announced it has licensed its voice over IP (VoIP) solutions and real-time multiuser application servers to eight leading corporate learning and online education companies. HearMe customers in the high-growth elearning space include Educata, eInstruction, […]
ARUNDEL, England, — Futuremedia PLC (Nasdaq: FMDAY), a leading provider of integrated e-learning solutions, today announced that Solstra 2000 has achieved certification from the Aviation Industry CBT Committee (AICC). The AICC is a leading international standards body dealing with inter-operability in learning technologies. The award of AICC certification makes Futuremedia PLC the UK’s first Learning […]
Fearing that Canadian institutions are being left behind in the race to offer distance education, the Canadian government and a group representing provincial education ministers have created a national Advisory Committee for Online Learning.
San Francisco (August 8, 2000) – class.com, inc. announced today that Suzanne Logan has been named Director of Academic Affairs. class.com provides Internet-based online courses for high school students, as the nations first fully accredited virtual high school. Logan was most recently Interim Vice-Provost, Outreach and Extended Studies, for Texas Tech University. In this position, […]
Marvin Bell, a former social studies teacher at the Milwaukee Education Center, faced a conflict a couple of years ago between his roles as the school’s resident computer guru and as one of its teachers. He wanted to figure out how to use computers to enhance a classroom lesson about slavery in the 19th century.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — InterWise®, Inc., the global leader of business-to-business live eLearning, software, services and communications,today announced a strategic relationship with PeopleSoft Inc, the world’s leading provider of eBusiness applications that enable people-customers, employees, and supplier-to power the Internet. InterWise Millennium™ 3.0 will play a critical role in supporting PeopleSoft’s Knowledge Center, a learning […]
Denver (August 7, 2000) – JonesKnowledge.com, a subsidiary of Jones International, Ltd., today announced that, based on its business plan, its parent is making $60 million available to further the online education efforts of JonesKnowledge.com. The funding, a portion of which has already been arranged and provided, is being used to fuel the continued growth […]