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Western Governors U. improves its grade

The virtual university, chartered in 1996 by the Western Governors Association as a private, non-profit institution, now offers 24 separate degrees in education, business administration and information technology on the undergraduate and graduate level.Read the Full Story

Harvard, Drexel, Swarthmore, and MIT Choose BigBad

– Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government – Executive Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts (rebranding and print collateral design)– Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (design and development of interactive campus map – Swarthmore College,Swarthmore, Pennsylvania (content management system consulting services)– MIT School of Engineering – Professional Education Programs, Cambridge, Massachusetts (website strategy, design, and development) “We continue to […]

Next-generation DVD formats rally support

Groups representing the Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD–blue laser formats aiming to become the technology to replace DVD–made their announcements at the Consumer Electronics Show here.Read the Full Story

’GBH on ‘front line’ of on-demand TV

Public television operator WGBH in Boston has figured much of it out already.Read the Full Story

‘Sesame Street Live’ tour is ‘Out of This World’

This year, in fact, it’s “Out Of This World.” Read the Full Story

More Than 95 Percent Of Parents Monitor Their Children’s Online Activities

The Conference Board’s latest Consumer Internet Barometer, a quarterly measure of who’s doing what on the Internet, finds that three out of four parents say they are in the room when their children go online. Read the Full Story

THS [Terryville High School] planning to offer Web-based courses

Administrators are interested in joining a program called Virtual High School that operates out of Maynard, Mass. and runs on a semester basis. Two site coordinators in Plymouth will track grades and take care of all students; needs.Read the Full Story

Professor’s anatomy Web quiz garners quarter-million-plus hits

In December, the site logged 277,593 hits, a feat that has James A. Strauss, assistant professor of anatomy and physiology at University Park, pleased and amazed. Read the Full Story

Online Bioterrorism Continuing Medical Education: Development and Preliminary Testing

Objective: Education to achieve awareness and competency in responding to incidents of bioterrorism is important for health care professionals, especially emergency physicians and nurses, who are likely first points of medical contact. Read the Full Story

Student surfers fail the grade

Eighty-one Shanghai University students were persuaded to quit school in the middle of last month after failing more than the allowed number of courses in a given time. Read the Full Story