Distance education is only a click away
Director of IDE, Dr S D Pawar, confirmed that the staff had an intense workload, with 61,000 applications received this year for courses offered by IDE. Read the Full Story
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Technological revolution in Indian education
The software, Global Campus Solutions — Higher Education User Group (HEUG) enables academic institutions to keep online track of students and enhance the productivity of staff.Read the Full Story
Internet2 Showcases Technology Initiatives at SC2004
This year, Internet2 is playing an active role in SC2004 by providing advanced networking capabilities to the conference and showcasing community expertise and accomplishments through an impressive schedule of workshops and presentations.Read the Full Story
Microsoft Pushes Search Technology to Market Amid Stiff Competition
Google signaled that it is ready for a fight, announcing Wednesday that it would nearly double the amount of Web pages available to search through its site. Read the Full Story
PeopleSoft Rejects Latest Oracle Bid as Inadequate
“The board concluded that PeopleSoft is worth substantially more than Oracle’s latest offer,” said David A. Duffield, the retired founder of PeopleSoft who was reinstated as chief executive last month. The Oracle offer, which it made 10 days ago, values PeopleSoft at $9.2 billion. PeopleSoft’s board urged shareholders not to respond to the offer. Read […]
Use of Distance Education by Religions of the World to Train, Edify, and Educate Adherents
Religious institutions worldwide are not only turning to the World Wide Web (WWW) to place information concerning religious beliefs and provide virtual services for their constituents but are also getting more involved in formally educating their members at a distance. Read the Full Story
Navy E-Learning Migrates to Navy Knowledge Online
Making Navy E-Learning available on NKO makes it easier for Sailors to manage their careers, providing them access to professional and personal education opportunities, as well as military information and models to pattern their career all under one Web site. Read the Full Story
UKeU initiative branded a ‘risky experiment’
Giving evidence to the Commons Education and Skills Committee’s inquiry into UKeU, higher education minister Kim Howells said the multi-million pound e-university was a ‘risky experiment’. Read the Full Story
Women accused of college aid fraud: The group was allegedly involved in a scheme to pay for distance education courses.
The U.S. attorney’s office in Cedar Rapids alleges that six women and a man fraudulently applied for aid to pay for distance education courses at Cedar Rapids’ Kirkwood Community College. The scheme, which lasted from January 2001 to March 2004, netted the group about $400,000, the indictment states.Read the Full Story
Tech-savvy schools reclaim millions
After spending her entire career struggling to keep pace with the unending barrage of paperwork that followed every one of the district’s approximately 17,000 special-needs students through the school system–the second largest in California–Nunes was convinced the district needed a more efficient means of ensuring that eligible students were receiving the care they so desperately […]