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President Discusses No Child Left Behind and High School Initiatives

want to thank all the students who are here today. Thank you for coming to let an old guy speak to you. Dr. Riddile said, make one thing — make sure you do one thing, Mr. President. I said, what is that? He said, keep the speech short, students can’t wait to get back into […]

State U and State Network bring the campus to the high school

The University of Iowa (UI) takes its message via the ICN to those students who may not be able to personally visit the campus early in the school year. The Hawkeye/Iowa Communications Network High School Visit Program started three years ago with approximately 15 pilot schools selected from western Iowa. The program has grown with […]

Texas software targets test cheaters

Officials will hire an outside expert to review security measures and build a tracking system to monitor test-score irregularities that could signal cheating, according to reports released on Jan. 10.Read the Full Story

Administration hopes to decrease plagiarizing from Internet

As the use of the Internet increases, the administration has become concerned with plagiarism becoming easier.Read the Full Story

Webinar Invite–Managed Learning Services: Leveraging Technology & Training Outsourcing Services

“Managed Learning Services: How to Best Leverage Technology & Training Outsourcing Services” Wednesday, February 9, 20051:00pm Eastern / 10:00am PacificRegister online at www.geolearning.com/webinar Managed Learning Services is a rapidly growing business trend that seeks to leverage learning technologies with outsourced training services. The Managed Learning Services model means organizations can wholly or partially outsource the […]

Free Opera for higher education

The company said its offer is being made in an attempt to protect academia from some of the flaws in “more vulnerable browsers” and to ensure a more secure, personalised web surfing experience for future generations of decision makers.

Cognitive and Logical Rationales for e-Learning Objects

e-Learning artefacts are probably compared most appropriately with information artefacts as known by the cognitive dimensions framework (cf. Green, 1996; Green & Petre, 1996) which describes the “system under investigation” as “something that has been built for the processing, storage and communication of information. Every information artefact provides one or more notations in which the […]

California Distance Learning Health Network Achieves State-Wide Reach

Installation and testing of Berkeley’s satellite dish, which equips them with three receivers including one to downlink digital broadcasts, has just been completed.Read the Full Story

E-Learning Takes Some Of The Scare Out Of Compliance

Two of the best examples of how E-learning is being used in the post-bubble, post-recession world can be found at Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Massachusetts and the Maryland Transit Administration. Read the Full Story

eRate delays require more work, creativity

On Jan. 11, the Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) of the Universal Service Administrative Co.–the agency that administers the $2.25 billion-a-year program–sent letters notifying 2,700 applicants they would be getting $510 million in eRate discounts for the 2004 program year. Read the Full Story