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Since then low-power television service (LPTV) has grown to include 2,034 stations across the nation, and according to the FCC and the trade association that represents the industry it has been a tremendous success.Read the Full Story
Saba and SumTotal Systems showed a positive tendency. Blackboard had good results, yet it still has to struggle with capricious shareholders. Centra’s yearly results were disappointing and additionally the company has not come up with a clear forecast for 2005. Skillsoft tumbled sharply. Read the Full Story
WASHINGTON, Feb 24, 2005 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ — Blackboard Inc. (Nasdaq: BBBB) announced today that eight new universities will use the complete Blackboard Academic Suite(TM), to foster Networked Learning Environments(TM) for their educators and students.Read the Full Story
Tops on the list of endangered programs is the Technology Immersion Pilot, or TIP, a massive, $14.5 million initiative rolled out in 23 school districts across the state to study the impact of 21st-century technology on student learning in the middle grades.Read the Full Story
Each school contributes at least one teacher who teaches a VHS course online, typically in place of teaching a section of a regular course at the school. In the VHS model, the school also provides a site coordinator who handles administrative matters and supervises local students enrolled in VHS courses. The VHS teachers, with the […]
State Rep. Robert Talton, a Pasadena Republican and an attorney, is sponsoring H.B. 826, which would require the Texas Supreme Court to adopt rules that would allow attorneys whose law degrees are based on study by correspondence to take the Texas exam, if they’ve passed another state’s bar exam and are licensed to practice law […]
At age 48, Marion Kovalenko is not your average college student.The mother of two balances her family life and her job as a teacher’s assistant at Petersen Elementary School, squeezing in study time at night via online courses. Read the Full Story
WASHINGTON–At a time when all young people need higher skills to be successful in an increasingly competitive economy, one third of U.S. students drop out of high school before graduation and half of those entering college never earn a degree. All told, less than one-fifth of the nation’s 9th-graders make it through the pipeline from […]
U.S. Circuit Judge Harry T. Edwards told the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) it “crossed the line” by requiring the new anti-piracy technology in next-generation television devices. But another appeals judge on the panel questioned whether consumers could challenge the FCC’s rules in the courtroom.Read the Full Story
GeoLearning, Inc., the leading provider of Managed Learning Services and hosted learning platforms, today announced its Spring User’s Conference that will be held Thursday, April 7 in Tucson, AZ at Loews Ventana Canyon Resort. The summit offers GeoLearning customers and members of its Customer Advisory Board an opportunity to share ideas and best practices related […]