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AMA Licenses CodeBaby e-Learning Agent to Improve Online Training

CodeBaby virtual agent welcomes new employees and makes corporate training more personalized and engagingEDMONTON, AB September 14, 2005 – CodeBaby®, the leading developer of virtual agent software, has announced that its award winning virtual agent technology has been licensed and deployed by the Alberta Motor Association (AMA), an affiliate of both the Canadian Automobile Association […]

Australia’s e-learning products and services to target overseas markets

Lin Thompson and Associates, in partnership with Binary Blue, have been selected to develop a strategy that will aid in embedding Australian vocational education and training (VET) e-learning products and services in the global marketplace.Read the Full Story

Mind the Gap: The debate about technology and computer use by students continues

The decision not to fund Title IID, which was the main source for many states to enhance their technology instructional plans, has become an issue for debate in itself with funding being totally eliminated in the 2006 federal budget.Read the Full Story

Download Report — Governors Explore Education Options

WASHINGTON–Governors are increasingly expanding education options to help exceed their statewide education goals, according to a new report by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Center for School Change (CSC) at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.Read the Full Story

MBA University Goes Mobile

Arab Open University of Bahrain has included Learning Mobile Author development toolkits in classrooms and research departments to pioneer the creation of an open source mobile content library.

College freshmen making friends online

For many college freshmen, leaving the security of home for a place where they don’t know anyone can be overwhelming. That’s why, to ease this transition, a growing number of today’s students are turning to the web to make friends before they even arrive on campus.Read the Full Story

Learning Design Engines as Remote Control to Learning Support Environments

Abstract:Context:Chapter 5 of the Learning Design book describes the operational model of a learning design engine based on the concept of finite automata with output alphabet. We rely on this event concept to include pre-existing learning tools in flexibe and rich learningdesigns. Contribution: We sketch an approach for the integration of complex learning environments in […]

Broward earmarks $68M for new computers, District ‘refreshes’ 40,000 machines

When students in Florida’s Broward County Schools returned to class earlier this year, chances are they hardly noticed the hard work school information technology (IT) and instructional staff logged over the summer to get the system’s 262 school buildings ready for their return.Read the Full Story

Watch NerdTV: Andy Hertzfeld, the original Macintosh systems programmer

Andy Hertzfeld, the original Macintosh systems programmer, talks about MacHistory and how he fell in love with Open Source software.Read the Full Story

Virtual class delivers worldwide

Sun Microsystems calls the next wave of computing “the Participation Age,” when sharing innovation and building communities comes to the forefront. What better way to expand upon this commitment than with its own live virtual class (LVC) initiative?Read the Full Story