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Questionmark Perception Assessments Linked to Dokeos Open Source LCMS

Questionmark Perception enables trainers and educators to create, deliver and report on assessments without programming experience or knowledge of HTML.The Dokeos2Perception connector allows students and instructors to seamlessly link to Questionmark Perception within the Dokeos platform. Institutions can maintain student and instructor profiles within Dokeos while taking advantage of the powerful assessment features of Perception.Dokeos […]

Call for Papers – 4th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education

The 4th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education will be held from January 6 (Friday) to January 9 (Monday), 2006 at the Renaissance Ilikai Waikiki Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii. Honolulu is located on the island of Oahu. Oahu is often nicknamed “the gathering place”. The 2006 Hawaii International Conference on Education will once again be […]

Polycom Demonstrates High Definition (HD) Video on Industry Leading VSX Video Communications Platform

Polycom is also announcing its current VSX 8000s and MGC multipoint video bridges will be field upgradeable to H.264 standards-based high definition video. Pricing and availability will be announced in fourth quarter 2005.Read the Full Story

New Internet Speed Records Set

Arlington, VA – May 4, 2005 – Internet2R today announced that two separate international teams have each set new Internet2 Land Speed Records (I2-LSR) in both the IPv4 and IPv6 categories. As an open and ongoing competition for the highest-bandwidth, end-to-end networks, Internet2 LSR marks represent the rate at which data is transferred multiplied by […]

Technology Counts 2005: Electronic Transfer, Economic and policy forces are moving technology dollars in new directions.

States and school districts are spending millions of dollars to build online student-data systems that will offer teachers what policymakers hope will be the information needed to craft clear-cut strategies for raising achievement. The biggest impetus for putting money into such data systems is arguably the expansive reporting requirements and ambitious student-achievement goals set forth […]

Georgia Virtual High School Officially Opens for Online Learning

WINDER, GA (May 4) – Students in Ms. Whitney Neufeldt’s AP Government class at Winder-Barrow High School witnessed firsthand the successful conclusion of a bill becoming law when Governor Sonny Perdue signed legislation today creating the Georgia Virtual High School.Read the Full Story

CalPoly standardizes on Oracle

In late 1997, Hanley, also the vice provost for IT services at Cal Poly, gave Oracle the old college try and hasn’t looked back since, building on the Oracle infrastructure year after year.Read the Full Story

Carrabec’s rural program set to get big-time exposure

And so it was when Gail Albert-Halaban, a freelance photographer working for Newsweek, hauled her equipment into teacher Brendan Murphy’s pre-calculus class.Read the Full Story

Online education used to combat hospital infections

Health Minister Andy Kerr said the initiative, provided by NHS Education for Scotland (NES), would help in the fight against HAI by providing frontline NHS staff with knowledge on best practice for combating hospital infection.Read the Full Story

Free! Writing Research Assistant Template

Online Teachers:  Take a few moments to review my free online application, Office Hours Writing Research Assistant.  I want feedback to make it even better! Jim Musgrave, English Instructor, Grossmont, San Diego Mesa and Southwestern Colleges