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Survey cites top 25 connected colleges

The second annual edition of the company’s “25 Most Connected Campuses,” issued Oct. 22, examines the technological capabilities of the nation’s higher education institutions and indicates which campuses employ the most cutting-edge tools to enhance teaching and learning. Read the Full Story

US Signal Helps Cooley Law School Unite Campuses Across Michigan; Sets Foundation for Distance Learning Next Fall

The project included linking Cooley’s main Lansing campus with Cooley’s two other campus locations in Grand Rapids, Mich. and Oakland County, Mich. via high-speed/low-latency connections. Read the Full Story

President Signs SHRM Supported Bill to Provide Persons with Disabilities Access to Technology in the Workplace

This law provides federal funding to state programs that aid people with disabilities and provides access to technology and services that assist in gaining full employment. SHRM worked diligently with Congress and the White House to bring this law to fruition.Read the Full Story

High-Speed Internet Policy Failure: U.S. Slips to 13th in Broadband Service Worldwide

“Allowing cable and telephone companies to squeeze out competition is a double-barreled failure,” said Mark Cooper, director of research for the Consumer Federation of America. Read the Full Story

Polycom Sponsors the First K-12 Interactive Distance Learning Video Conference

INDIANAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oct. 26, 2004–Polycom(R), Inc. (Nasdaq:PLCM), the world’s leading provider of unified collaborative communications solutions for the education market, is serving as a platinum sponsor for the inaugural Keystone Conference, the first nationally accessible, K-12 interactive videoconferencing conference and event, on Oct. 25-26, 2004. Read the Full Story

Intel to Join in a Project to Extend Wireless Use

The companies said that Intel would make a “significant” investment in Clearwire, which has begun building long-range wireless data networks around the world.Read the Full Story

SMARTHINKING Adds Live, Online Math Tutoring In Spanish

SMARTHINKING’s bi-lingual math tutorials serve as a “safety-net” for those students whose first language is Spanish. The one-to-one instruction is primarily conducted in English, but tutors have the ability to communicate in Spanish, thus ensuring students’ comprehension. “By combining bilingual math tutoring with the online writing lab’s English language learning specialists, SMARTHINKING provides a powerful […]

Distance Learning Leader BTV + Selects Modulus Video MPEG-4 AVC Systems

SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oct. 26, 2004–Modulus Video, Inc., the AVC Company, announced today that interactive distance-learning leader BTV + has purchased multiple complete MPEG-4 AVC encoding/decoding systems. Read the Full Story

Choosing people: the role of social capital in information seeking behaviour

This paper reports findings that come out of a larger investigation of the information seeking behaviour of a random sample of residents of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.Read the Full Story

Exporting education: Wisconsin can teach the world, and profit by it

In fact, offshore education demand is so strong that sale of academic “sheepskins” is rivaling wool as an Australian export industry.Read the Full Story