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Athabasca University’s online MBA ranked again among world’s top EMBAs

(St. Albert, AB) — For the second time in two years, Athabasca University’s (AU) Executive MBA has been included on the prestigious list of the world’s top 75 EMBA programs by the Financial Times (FT) of London, England. Launched as the world’s first online MBA in 1994, the Athabasca University program is the only online […]

Certegrity Puts integrity into certification

This pay-as-you-go training information archival service provides a safe and secure repository for all of your training information, including class and certification information, as well as images of documents and exams. The stored records are retrievable at any time, 365 days a year, and meet all legal, regulatory and risk management requirements for securing and […]

SkillSoft’s Client Advisory Forums Highlight Trends in Enterprise Learning

NASHUA, N.H., Nov. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — SkillSoft PLC (Nasdaq: SKIL), a leading provider of content resources and complementary technologies for integrated enterprise learning, just completed two customer advisory forums held in Boston and San Francisco. The forums, attended by 134 learning executives, were designed to inform SkillSoft customers about planned product and service directions for […]

FUTUREMEDIA Brings Home Computing Initiative to Winterthur Life UK

Brighton, England, 1st November 2004 – Futuremedia (NASDAQSC:FMDAY), a leading European e-learning provider and the premier supplier of Home Computing Initiative (HCI) programmes in the UK, today announced it has been selected by Winterthur Life UK, part of the Credit Suisse Group, one of the world’s leading financial groups, to deliver the Government’s HCI programme […]

Avaya IP Video Telephony Solution Makes Desktop Videoconferencing as Simple as a Phone Call

BASKING RIDGE, N.J. – Nov. 1, 2004 – Avaya Inc. (NYSE: AV), a leading global provider of business communications software, systems and services, today introduced an Internet protocol-based video telephony solution that makes desktop videoconferencing as simple as a phone call. The solution integrates broadcast-quality video and office phone functionality into a single, easy-to-use interface, […]

Study: Firefox still gaining on Internet Explorer

The percentage of Americans using Mozilla and Firefox, two open-source browsers funded by the Mozilla Foundation, grew to 6 percent in October from 5.2 percent in September and 3.5 percent in June. That 6 percent was split evenly between the two browsers.Read the Full Story

General Practitioners and Online Continuing Professional Education:

This appears to be convenient and time efficient for the busy working professional. The views of practising professionals were sought and form the basis of this paper. Primary care physicians at two locations, who actively pursue continuing education, discuss the role of information technology in their daily professional practice and give their views about online […]

The Academic Culture and the IT Culture: Their Effect on Teaching and Scholarship

In this article, I’d like to continue the discussion and also go further, exploring not only why these two areas continue to be, for the most part, resistant to the changes but also how technology can successfully address these core missions of higher education.1Read the Full Story

On the air, on the move

“You’re provided a higher level of television with NETV,” said Swift, of Omaha. “It’s television that’s educational, and you always walk away and feel like you learned something new.” Read the Full Story

2004 Vote

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