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Building a Virtual High School…click by click

South Dakota’s Rapid City Academy finds out just what it takes to provide a diverse population of students the flexibility offered by online learning.Read the Full Story

Interactive Teaching and Learning

How does the use of the interactive whiteboard promote interactive teaching and learning?Read the Full Story

PBS Unveils NerdTV, the First Downloadable Web-Exclusive Series from a Major Broadcaster, and Begins PBS Podcasts

Alexandria, VA – September 7, 2005 – Beginning today, PBS takes the wraps off two major new content offerings: NerdTV – broadcast television’s first entirely downloadable series – and an array of downloadable podcasts from a variety of PBS signature programs.Read the Full Story

Online courses fit neatly into busy schedules of students

Imagine getting home after a hectic day in school. You sit down at your computer, tap in a password and learn your assignment for a class that does not meet in school. Instead, you log into a chat room and ask your teacher questions about the assignment and brainstorm ideas with your fellow classmates.Read the […]

iPod nano, iPod phone unveiled

SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) — Apple Computer Inc. has unveiled a pencil-thin “iPod nano” digital music player and a long-anticipated cell phone that plays music like an iPod, both aimed at extending its domination of the digital music market.Read the Full Story

Telecom Technology Executives to Share Global Vision of Next Generation Networks at TELECOM ’05

September 07, 2005, Washington – Today, the United States Telecom Association (USTelecom) and the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) announced that the lead technology officers from Verizon, SBC, BellSouth and Qwest will appear on center stage together to discuss future plans, including how to deploy IPTV, for the communications industry at TELECOM ’05 this […]

Preface to Learning Design: A Handbook on Modelling and Delivering Networked Education and Training

1 PrefaceThe Valkenburg GroupIn March 2002, thirty-three experts in e-learning from four continents met each other for the first time in Valkenburg aan de Geul, a small village in the south of The Netherlands. Since then, the group, referred to as the Valkenburg Group, has met several times at different locations to explore how to […]

New Study Reveals Continued Growth for Online Higher Education in Corporate Learning

ASTD and Capella University Identify Senior Learning Executives’ Perceptions of Online Learning for Higher EducationRead the Full Story

Universities Hit by Katrina Tap Technologies To Stay Afloat

In spite of a lack of power, a hugely damaged telecom infrastructure, and increasingly explosive civil unrest, university staff and students in Louisiana are applying what technology they can use to communicate with each other and helping in the arduous process of rebuilding their state.Read the Full Story

eCollege(R) Reaches Out to the Education Community in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina Tragedy

CHICAGO, Sept. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — eCollege(R) (Nasdaq: ECLG), a leading provider of value-added information services to the post-secondary education industry, is reaching out to institutions that have been impacted by Hurricane Katrina.Read the Full Story