American Safety Council Launches Florida Online Safe Boating Course
The course is being launched to coincide with the start of Florida’s busy summer boating season as well as National Safe Boating Week (May 21-27, 2005).Read the Full Story
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School computer gap grows
David Davis, 11, used to dread math and never got better than a C in the subject. But since he got his own laptop computer at school, math has become one of his favorite classes.Read the Full Story
Business Roundtable Renews Call for Shared Responsbility for Cyber Security Among IT Suppliers, End-Users and Government
“Hardening the Internet is one of the most important security issues facing the business community,†Hopkins said at a newsmaker luncheon at the National Press Club that was sponsored by the Critical Infrastructure Protection Program at The George Mason University (GMU) School of Law.Read the Full Story
Detroit radio station will tune to classical
Metro Detroit’s long-suffering classical music fans will finally get what they’ve been pining for on July 1 — a local classical music station for Detroit for the first time since 1997, when classical WQRS-FM (105.1) flipped to a modern rock format. Read the Full Story
One Third of All Software in Use Still Pirated, Major Study Finds
Washington, D.C., (Wednesday, May 18) – Thirty-five percent of the software installed on personal computers worldwide was pirated in 2004, a one percentage point decrease from 36 percent in 2003. Yet, losses due to piracy increased from $29 billion to $33 billion.Read the Full Story
eSN’s sneak peek at ‘MS Student 2006’
Called Microsoft Student 2006 (MS Student 2006), the product is a cross between Microsoft’s online Encyclopedia Encarta, a customizable search engine, and its Office productivity suite–geared specifically to the needs of students.Read the Full Story
Education for Agriculture and Rural Development in Low-Income Countries: Implications of the Digital Divide
International statistics show that the great majority of the world’s population remains untouched by the ICT revolution. The digital divide is partly an outcome of illiteracy and low educational quality, but it is also a constraint to the improvement of educational quality, equity, and access. With regard to the worldwide initiative Education for All, the […]
Need a tutor? Call India.
Unlike most tutors, however, Mr. Basak lives thousands of miles away from his students – he is a New Delhi resident who goes to work at 6 a.m. so that he can chat with American students doing their homework around dinnertime.Read the Full Story
Online exam clicks with students
They are guinea pigs for a national test which will become compulsory for 13 and 14-year-olds in 2008.Read the Full Story
Graduates From 8 Countries, More Than 30 States, Participate in Today’s Online Commencement Ceremony of Jones International University
DENVER, May 20 /PRNewswire/ — Jones International University® (JIU®) (http://www.jonesinternational.edu/), which received the first accreditation in the United States of a completely virtual institution, has 2004-2005 graduates representing eight countries and more than 30 states across the U.S., living proof that it has taken the distance out of distance education.Read the Full Story