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The 27-page booklet puts information on Navy benefits and core career-enhancing programs at Sailors’ fingertips in an easy-to-use format that is available both as an insert to the May issue of All Hands, and online on the Navy Personnel Command (NPC) Web site at www.npc.navy.mil/AboutUs/NPC/PublicAffairs/.Read the Full Story
The company has now licensed more than 200 institutions to its WebCT Vista academic enterprise system, including new customers Coconino Community College, Napier University (Scotland), The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Western Illinois University and Western Michigan University.Read the Full Story
Centra Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTRA), a leading provider of software and services for online learning and training, today announced that Cognex (NASDAQ: CGNX), the world’s leading supplier of machine vision systems, is keeping their sales force current, increasing customer retention and delivering higher ROI to its customer base by implementing Centra as their eLearning solution.Read […]
A few years ago, Linda Dunlap of Marist College in New York was similarly skeptical about the possibility of teaching her discipline online. “How could one possibly teach social psychology, or most psychology courses online? It just didn’t seem logical,” Dunlap recalls. She thinks of psychology “as a very people-oriented field – the study of […]
And word is spreading.Courtenay White, a UND continuing education program manager, said when UND first launched its distance learning engineering degree program in 1989, it struggled to attract a dozen students.Read the Full Story
Thanks to a rare collaboration among all the government agencies, schools, and other public entities in Monterey Bay, students, instructors, and other community members in this coastal city now enjoy internet connectivity at speeds more than 600 times faster than a T1 line can provide–and they enjoy it at just a fraction of the customary […]
The question-and-answer session with flight engineer John Phillips was arranged by the family of his niece, Hannah Doell, who joined the sixth-grade class after her family moved to the district last summer.Read the Full Story
Today’s action by the Subcommittee would, if enacted, represent a $196 million cut to the EETT program on top of a similar sized cut last year. The Bush Administration proposed to eliminate EETT in its FY06 Budget Request.Read the Full Story
The film is a sequel to Krawitz’s 1982 Emmy-nominated documentary Little People, which looked at the lives and experiences of dwarves. For Big Enough, Krawitz revisited the lives of five subjects she had filmed two decades earlier.Read the Full Story
The vocabulary targeted for learning consisted of (a) Coxhead’s (2000) Academic Word List, a list of items that occur frequently in university textbooks, and (b) unfamiliar words students had met in academic texts and selected for entry into the class database.Read the Full Story