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“No other college or university is offering an accredited MFA Creative Writing program online at this time,” said Karen Offitzer, the program’s lead faculty member. “The online format allows us to team professional, award-winning writers with students who are unable to leave home for 10 days, twice a year, as required by most low-residency MFA […]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Blackboard Inc. (Nasdaq: BBBB) today introduced its Communities of Practice Initiative(SM) to cultivate innovations in e-learning and support the organic growth of knowledge within the Blackboard(R) community. Unveiled at EDUCAUSE 2004, the initiative features two new programs, including a course design competition and a grant program. The course competition will […]
DENVER – Oct. 20, 2004 – EDUCAUSE 2004, Booth # 1525 – Sonic Foundry Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFO), a leading rich media solutions company, today announced Villanova University’s College of Engineering has purchased three of the company’s Mediasiteâ„¢ rich media presentation recorders to capture and stream courses for its graduate degree program. The recorded classes serve […]
Philadelphia, London, New York and Alexandria, VA (October 20, 2004) — Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA, CMCSK), HIT Entertainment PLC (London Stock Exchange: HTE), PBS and Sesame Workshop today announced plans to launch a 24-hour digital cable television channel for preschool-aged children and companion video-on-demand (VOD) service. Read the Full Story
PLEASANTON, Calif. – Oct. 20, 2004 – Polycom®, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM), the world’s leading provider of unified collaborative communications solutions, today announced new software for its industry-leading Polycom VSXâ„¢ line of video conferencing solutions. Polycom VSX Release 7.5 software delivers several enhancements that improve the quality of video calls, and introduces People+Contentâ„¢ IP, a software […]
New York Institute of Finance, the world’s premier provider of financial training to financial services firms and corporations, and VCampus Corporation (NASDAQ:VCMP), a provider of comprehensive e-Learning publishing and hosting services to corporations, government agencies, associations and higher education organizations, today announced plans to develop and deliver an online curriculum to support NASD’s new Research […]
Others attend to their projects in the large, open activity room upstairs, pausing perhaps to study one of the chess games hanging on the wall before meeting in groups to plan the current project. A third group steps up a half flight of stairs into the small narrow room at the front of the building, […]
Despite his credentials (a Ph.d in International Relations and Russian studies as well as years of teaching experience), Dr. Seabold has added another feather to his cap – an M.A. in distance learning, which he obtained online at University of Maryland University College. In today’s increasingly technology based world, distance learning is becoming an important […]
The World Lecture Hall, the most well-known repository of links to academic Web sites, attests to the vitality yet unevenness of this movement. A few “enhanced” courses do little more than deliver the traditional print syllabus via the Internet, but many prove that the creative possibilities of Web use are almost endless (see Mullinix and […]
Pampano Beach, Florida., (October 19, 2004) – Elluminate, Inc., a leading provider of live eLearning and Web conferencing solutions for the real-time organization, and The University of Iowa (UI) announced today that UI has selected Elluminate Live!â„¢ Academic Editionâ„¢ for use by its Center for International and Rural Environmental Health (CIREH) to provide interactive training […]