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The chief of the Northwest’s federal disaster response division is defending his background and job qualifications after FEMA’s national director was removed from on-site command of hurricane relief efforts and questioned about his job experience.Read the Full Story
John Pennington, the official in charge of federal disaster response in the Northwest, was a four-term Republican state representative who ran a mom-and-pop coffee company in Cowlitz County when then-Congresswoman Jennifer Dunn helped him get his federal post.Read the Full Story
Haymarket, VA (September 1, 2005) Hot Lava Software, www.hotlavasoftware.com the leading mobile content provider is extending the power of mobile content creation to thousands of students through a partnership with Global Distance Learning, Nashville, TN www.gdlc.com and Arab Open University of Bahrain, www.aou.org.bh.Using Hot Lava Software’s mobile content creation toolkit, Learning Mobile Author, will allow […]
Educators, trainers and instructional designers will come together March 12-15, 2006, for the fourth annual Questionmark Users Conference, to be held at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco.The event brings together users of the Questionmark Perception assessment management system for three days of learning, sharing of best practices and networking. Attendees will hear case studies […]
The fuel panic that ensued after Hurricane Katrina interrupted oil production and transportation in the Gulf Coast region has heightened concerns over rising fuel costs that already had existed before the storm. These soaring costs have put a serious strain on school budgets, prompting school leaders to examine ways they can save. Read the Full […]
The BBC has released the first TV clips from its archive onto the internet for people to “rip, mix and share”.Read the Full Story
Abstract: Integrating the specifications and tools for IMS-Learning Design (IMS, 2003) into Moodle (Moodle, 2003), an open-source Learning Management System (LMS), is not just a technological question, but also relates to practical, pedagogical, and philosophical issues. This study documents the discussions and experiments of a team of teachers active in the Moodle community who are […]
Planning For The Next Katrina May Not Be As Useful As Developing IT FlexibilityDisaster planning will undoubtedly be a hot topic for campus IT, following Katrina. What lessons can be learned? What can be done differently? Is it possible to be prepared for every contingency?Read the Full Story
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Offering relief to college students impacted by Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. House of Representatives today approved legislation to provide additional flexibility to students forced to withdraw from higher education as a result of a natural disaster. The bill, authored by Rep. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) and approved unanimously, allows the Secretary of Education […]
Washington, D.C. – The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee under the leadership of its chairman, Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., passed the bill today that governs major student financial aid programs for college, services designed to help high school students prepare for college, aid to institutions of higher learning and aid to improve […]