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eCollege Releases eCollege Content Manager

DENVER – January 11, 2005 – eCollege® [Nasdaq: ECLG], a leading provider of value-added information services to the post-secondary education industry, today announced the release of eCollege Content Manager v1.0, which helps institutions centrally manage, standardize and reuse content across multiple programs, courses and sections. eCollege Content Manager is part of the Company’s overall product […]

Plymouth High looks online to expand offerings

Peter Lovely, director of curriculum, said he would like to hook up the high school with Massachusetts-based Virtual High School, a nonprofit organization that offers credit-bearing high school courses to students across the country and around the world. Lewis S. Mills High School in Burlington is in its second year with Virtual High School and […]

U.S. Education Corporation Introduces New Online Program at Western Career College

Classes commence January 24, 2005. The program, which is provided via Western College Online, is intended for students who have successfully completed some college in a healthcare-related discipline from any regionally or nationally accredited college. Read the Full Story

Iowa State follows tuition trends with 4 percent increase

Tuition at public four-year universities in the nation increased an average of 10.5 percent this year, according to an annual survey on trends in college pricing by the College Board, a non-profit membership association of colleges and universities. The survey states that the increase is the second largest in more than a decade. Last year’s […]

Capitalising on richer Web data

Recent successful trials of European semantic-Web applications suggest that machine-readable data will soon usher in an improved Web that will facilitate information reuse, and provide for painless building and maintenance of community portals.Read the Full Story

Apple unveils $499 PC

Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the new Mac Mini during his keynote address at the Macworld Expo here, promising the machine would help further expand Apple’s audience beyond the Mac faithful. Read the Full Story

Choosing people: the role of social capital in information seeking behaviour

An explanation for the use of people as information sources is that they are easier to approach than more formal sources and therefore are a least effort option. However there have been few studies that have investigated who the people chosen as information sources are and what their relationship to the information seeker is.Read the […]

President Bush to visit FCCJ [Florida Community College at Jacksonville] Friday

White House officials would not say Monday which of FCCJ’s campuses the President will visit.Read the Full Story

Telemedicine and distance learning after the tsunami

Months from now, experts will have to evaluate how well these networks performed and evaluate where there is need for improvement.Read the Full Story

As for managing knowledge, MUMMY knows best

This is where MUMMY comes in. It aims to enable mobile, personalised knowledge management using rich multimedia to improve the efficiency of mobile business processes. Read the Full Story