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AppWorx Certified Compatible with SunGard SCT Banner 7

The AppWorx Enterprise Scheduler is designed to complement SCT Banner by helping higher education customers automate manual processes, reduce errors, eliminate latency, shorten processing windows and improve output management and distribution. AppWorx has been tested and certified for use with supported SCT Banner through version 7.“We are very pleased to earn certification on SCT Banner […]

Penn State World Campus Adds Live eLearning to Online Curriculum

Now one of the nation’s ten largest universities, Penn State is a recognized pioneer in online education, continuing more than a century of innovation and commitment to distance learning.Read the Full Story

Capella looks to raise $86M in IPO

For more than a year rumors have surfaced that the fast-growing Minneapolis-based online education company has been planning for an initial public offering (IPO). This is the second highly anticipated IPO this year — ev3 filed plans for an IPO last month.Read the Full Story

Harcourt Assessment Partners with State of Oklahoma with Online Testing Program for Seventh Grade Geography

Student testing began last week for the state’s 48,000 seventh graders, with nearly 17,000 tested so far. The three-week testing period continues through April 29.Read the Full Story

MIKE WENDLAND: School laptop project at risk

Michigan’s grand vision of equipping every sixth-grade student in the state with a laptop computer may be no more.Read the Full Story

Critics diminish grand laptop plan

Originally, school district leaders in Cobb County, Ga., wanted to provide a laptop computer to every middle and high school student in the district, which would have made it the largest one-to-one computing initiative in the nation (see “$69.9 million iBook deal on tap in Ga.”). On April 13, however, they agreed to limit the […]

Agilix Partners With Blackboard to Deliver Mobile Learning Solutions to Educational Institutions Worldwide

Orem, Utah – April 12, 2004 – Agilix Labs, Inc. has entered into a partnership with Blackboard Inc. (NASDAQ:BBBB) to deliver offline, mobile learning solutions for students, instructors and system administrators, and to extend Blackboard’s vision of the Network Learning Environmentâ„¢. Read the Full Story

WebCT unveils first-of-its-kind program harnessing e-learning data to drive education excellence

LYNNFIELD, Mass., April 18, 2005 – WebCT, provider of higher education’s most flexible and widely used e-learning solutions, today announced the Quality Assessment Innovation Project, a first-of-its-kind initiative to help colleges and universities improve education by analyzing the student performance data they collect in the WebCT Vista academic enterprise system.Read the Full Story

Speedera and Macromedia Partner for Secure Flash Video Delivery

Macromedia has long boasted that its Flash Video is the perfect combination of easy content creation and reliable delivery with the oft-touted figure of 98% penetration of all desktop computers.Read the Full Story

New Higher Ed e-Learning Study Provides Unique “Self-Audit”

The non-profit group A-HEC (Alliance for Higher Education Competitiveness) just launched a new phase of the recently published and well received study, “Achieving Success in Internet-Supported Learning in Higher Education” (click here to visit original study page). The new phase is open to all institutions (click here to visit the new study phase page). Participation […]