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SkillSoft Releases Courseware to Support Project Management Institute’s The PMBOK Guide — Third Edition

For the last several months, SkillSoft has also been working on meeting the Project Management Institute’s latest requirements for certifying courseware for continuing education and contact hours. Currently, SkillSoft has 44 courses that have been reviewed and approved for meeting contact hour requirements prior to taking an exam; 289 titles meet continuing education requirements for […]

Qwest Communications Continues Delivering High-Performance Network to Internet2 in Extended Agreement

Qwest Communications International Inc. (NYSE:Q) today announced an agreement to continue providing optical and SONET network services to Internet2, a university-led research and development consortium that includes more than 300 U.S. universities, research institutions, corporations and government agencies working together to create and deploy next-generation Internet technologies. Read the Full Story

Home-schooling purists spurn growing online charter schools

The Akron Beacon Journal, in an effort to compile its own data, surveyed Ohio’s more than 600 school districts last fall. Read the Full Story

Conducting class from afar

Who can name a pair of parallel planes?” asked teacher Kim Abolafia as she motioned toward a geometric shape labeled with an alphabet soup of letters.Read the Full Story

PLATO Learning chief resigns

After meeting with the company’s board of directors Wednesday, John Murray, who served as president, chairman, and chief executive officer of the company since he took the helm in 1994, agreed to relinquish all three titles and his seat on the company’s board, effectively cutting all ties between himself and the Bloomington, Minn.-based firm. Read […]

Virtual High School program offers students unique opportunity

If, for example, students want to take an advanced placement English class because they think the school’s offering is not challenging enough, then they’re out of luck.Read the Full Story

School board will consider request for more money for online classes

The Churchill On-Line Academics program currently has 31 students enrolled in Internet classes. Of those, 16 are full time students who were included in the official count day in September. That means the district received $89,760 from the state for those students.Read the Full Story

Is ‘Fair Use’ in Peril?

Do you like fast-forwarding through commercials on a television program you’ve recorded? How much do you like it? Enough to go to jail if you’re caught doing it? If a new copyright and intellectual property omnibus bill sitting on Congress’s desk passes, that may be the choice you’ll face.Read the Full Story

Thinking Cap

Thinking Capâ„¢ is built to support open standards and interoperability.Thinking Capâ„¢ was created and is owned by Agile.Net Inc. a software developer in Toronto, Canada.Read the Full Story

University students receiving financial aid in record numbers

University Park, Pa. -– As college costs rise nationwide in the face of shrinking state support for public higher education, Penn State is supporting more students in their quest to pay for college and continues to seek ways to stem the growth of post-graduate debt.Read the Full Story