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eCollege Provides New Level of Flexibility for Managing Large Online Programs

DENVER – April 19, 2005 – eCollege® [Nasdaq: ECLG], a leading provider of value-added information services to the post-secondary education industry, today announced the release of its enhanced Program Administration System, providing a new level of flexibility for administrators to more effectively manage large-scale online programs. The enhancements are part of eCollege’s overall product advancement […]

Approved CE for Florida Adjusters

Florida statutes now require all adjusters to complete 24 hours of continuing education courses every two years. Of the 24 hours, at least 10 must come from adjuster law courses, at least two from an ethics course, and the remaining 12 hours may come from any subject approved for adjusters.CEU.com has received approval from the […]

Governors Take Education Recommendations to Hill

Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher testified before a Senate committee on lifelong learning opportunities.Read the Full Story

Governors Seek Input from 10,000 High School Students

By the end of this school year, the National Governors Association (NGA) hopes to survey more than 10,000 high school students on their expectations and frustrations about America’s high schools and how the work they do affects their futures.Read the Full Story

Pennsylvania Provides Customized PETI Tools to Its EETT Grantees

Pennsylvania’s teachers are now gaining proficiency in redesigning learning activities to leverage the potential of technology incrementally, while greater numbers of students are increasingly engaged in learning. More adminis-trators and teachers are also starting to use real-time data to inform instruction.Read the Full Story

PETI Tools Assist Missouri Districts in Determining Their Technological Progress

The Missouri Educational Technology Professionals’ Association (METPA), which was formed to help promote statewide education technology standards and integration, as well as to play an active role in the state’s fall education technology conference and spring technical conference.Read the Full Story

Critics Question Use of Offshore Firms for Online Tutoring

Such arrangements appear to constitute only a minute fraction of the tutoring business that is mushrooming under the federal law.Read the Full Story

Adobe to buy Macromedia

Though it was unclear at press time exactly how this union of print and online publishing software giants would affect each company’s respective products, one thing is for sure: The deal is bound to have an impact on teachers and students at all levels of education.Read the Full Story

Developers React to Adobe – Macromedia Deal

While the $3.4 billion acquisition may not set any records in terms of its size, it marks the end of one era and the beginning of a new one for Web developers and designers who have watched Macromedia and Adobe increasingly compete for their loyalty over the years.Read the Full Story

When iPod goes collegiate

When Kenneth Rogerson walked into his newspaper journalism class on the first day of the school year, the professor could barely contain his excitement.Read the Full Story