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Demo version of uCertify PrepKits for Microsoft Exam 70-291 and 70-293 Released

uCertify (Jan 03, 2005). uCertify, committed towards providing quality educational training and services for the IT industry, announced to release the demo version of Exam Simulation PrepKits for the Microsoft Exams 70-293 and 70-291, for MCSE and MCSA certifications. uCertify has offered 50% Discount on the both the PrerpKits, if they are Pre-Purchased before the […]

Kentucky to initiate online test program

Select students at the schools will take 10th-grade reading or 11th-grade social studies tests on computers, while the rest of the students will continue to take pencil-and-paper tests. Read the Full Story

PBS’ newsmagazine ‘Now’: A new season with a new host, David Brancaccio

Most notably, its changing of the guard: Bill Moyers retired at age 70 last month from the weekly newsmagazine he founded three years ago.Read the Full Story

Capital Alliance Subsidiary Announces PRC Nationwide E-Learning Partnership With ChinaCast

ChinaCast, a publicly listed company on the Singapore Stock Exchange, is headquartered in Beijing, China.Read the Full Story

Apple office software seems likely

IGG Software, which has marketed a time-billing application as iWork, has changed the program’s name to iBiz. Read the Full Story

Residency dispute tests virtual schooling

The dispute involves more than $100,000 in tuition that taxpayers in a suburban Pittsburgh school district paid for U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum’s children to be educated via computer at their Virginia home–revealing a basic flaw in Pennsylvania’s 2002 cyber-school law.Read the Full Story

‘Cyberschool’ law eyed in Pennsylvania

Legislators need to clarify which students may enroll in Internet-based schools at taxpayer expense, said state Rep. James Roebuck, the ranking Democrat on the House Education Committee. Read the Full Story

Broadband Networking >> The ‘Other’ VoIP

Television sets are a dying breed at Northwestern University (IL). Walk the halls of the Bobb and McCullough residence halls on the north end of the school’s suburban Chicago campus, and you’re likely to find nary a one. Read the Full Story

New Jersey Institute of Technology Breaks E-Learning Barriers with WebCT Campus Edition

The New Jersey Institute of Technology, an e-learning pioneer and the confirmed originator of the “virtual classroom” concept, is using the WebCT Campus Edition(TM) course management system to expand its already broad range of innovative e-learning offerings. Read the Full Story

In virtual school, teacher is just an e-mail away

The e-mail came from one of my 10th-grade world-literature students, the same week Time magazine published a short piece examining the viability of online education. Read the Full Story