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Governor’s legislation would create ‘master teachers,’ online classes

The three bills also would expand student access to advanced courses and other classes on the Internet and continue to offer spending flexibility to local school systems.Read the Full Story

American Graduate School of Management Unveils Unique Online Executive MBA

(PRWEB) January 12, 2005 — As part of American Graduate School of Management’s continuing expansion, effective immediately, the institution will offer a premium online Executive MBA program. This program targets mid-career professionals, with significant work experience, who seek to enhance their careers by learning with motivated student peers and completing a demanding program.Read the Full […]

US-based CGIAR and IGNOU sign MOU in agri

“We are in discussion with IGNOU and hope to finalise the deal soon,” senior research fellow and senior training advisor, International Food Policy Research Institute, Dr Suresh Babu said. Read the Full Story

NACOL Professional Development Webinars, A special opportunity speak to one of the United States’ foremost policy leader on issues effecting the world of online learning: Ms. Susan Patrick, Director, Office of Education Technology, US Dept. of Ed.

During this internet-based conference, Ms. Patrick will provide an overview of the newly released National Education Technology Plan: Toward a New Golden Age in American Education: How the Internet, the Law and Today’s Students are Revolutionizing Expectations and take your questions about how the plan effects your state, district or school. Read the Full Story

New ed-tech plan gives SIF a boost

SIF, which stands for the Schools Interoperability Framework, was developed to eliminate the need for school personnel to enter information about the same students over and over again for each administrative software package a district uses–a need that arises when software programs cannot communicate with each other or share information. Read the Full Story

Schools get Web database to drive up standards

The Specialist Schools Trust is creating a national database that will let teachers share the ICT and e-learning knowledge.Read the Full Story

SMA Launches “Builder’s On-Line Training,” the Homebuilding Industry’s First “Distance-Learning” Management Training Center

ORLANDO, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jan. 12, 2005– SMA Consulting today announced that is has launched Builder’s On-Line Training, a virtual campus that will offer a continuing series of live, distance-learning (and archived, on-demand) educational 90-minute seminars that teach “best-practices” to US residential homebuilders of any size.Read the Full Story

Educators See ‘Following the Leaders’ as Helpful

Sophomore Stacey Hodge knelt before a computer at Riverside High School here and prepared to put Following the Leaders to work. Viewing a list of English skills her teacher had planned for her to review, Ms. Hodge said the computer programs were helping her pass her courses.Read the Full Story

SkillSoft Offers Availability of Mentoring Services Through Third-Party Learning Management Systems

The availability of mentoring services — which include 24×7 on-line chats, study aids, and test preparations — through third-party learning management systems gives learners the ability to access any mentoring service through the LMS. For instance, a learner can access an online chat to quickly clarify a point in a related course or receive a […]

Group and Class Contexts for Learning and Support Online

At the end of the third and sixth years of a distance delivered teacher education programme, students completed a survey to determine the extent to which the nature and characteristics of the online aspects of the programme contributed to learning and afforded affective support.Read the Full Story