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eRate chaos looms for nation’s schools

The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation convened the hearing to address highly publicized instances of waste, fraud, and abuse of the $2.25 billion-a-year program, which gives schools and libraries discounts of up to 90 percent on their internet and telephone service and wiring. Read the Full Story

Unis in fierce battle for Asia’s e-students

Australian universities are competing fiercely in the Asia-Pacific region, South-East Asia and China, and the stakes have been raised by the entry of other international institutions, particularly from Britain and the US.Read the Full Story

Protecting Ourselves to Death: Canada, Copyright, and the Internet

These “common sense” ideas, fostered by rights–holder lobbies, emerge out of a peculiar Canadian history of cultural nationalism(s), but they may not promote the interests of Canadians. Ironically, while professing fear for their cultural sovereignty, and following the paths of their own internal political, bureaucratic, and rhetorical culture, Canadians appear to be constructing a copyright […]

Religion & Ethics Newsweekly Offers Innovative Web Site Course On Teaching Religion

The project is supported by a matching grant given by program funder Lilly Endowment Inc. in an effort to extend the reach of the weekly broadcast, which is distributed to PBS stations on Fridays at 5 p.m. ET (check local listings).Based on the Colgate University course entitled “Religion and the Quest for Meaning,” the video […]

2004 UMUC Intellectual Property in Academia Workshop Series

TACKLING THE TEACH ACTNovember 2 – November 16, 2004Moderated by *Kenneth D. Crews, JD, PhD, associate dean and director of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Copyright Management Center, and the 2003 Center for Intellectual Property’s Virtual Intellectual Property ScholarVisit the Online Workshop Website

eCollege One of Colorado’s Fastest Growing Tech Companies on Deloitte’s Fast 50

DENVER – October 4, 2004 – eCollege(SM) [Nasdaq: ECLG], a leading provider of value-added information services to the post-secondary education market, today announced it has been named to Deloitte’s prestigious Colorado Technology Fast 50 Program. This is the fourth straight year eCollege has been among the fastest growing technology companies in Colorado based on five […]

SunGard Announces Plan to Spin off Availability Services Business; Will Separate into Two Strong, Industry-leading Companies; Provides Guidance on Revenue Growth and Reaffirms 2004 Earnings Outlook

Cristóbal Conde, SunGard’s president and chief executive officer, said, “This is great news for our stockholders, customers and employees. We are pursuing a strategic separation of SunGard into two financially strong, independent companies so that each can better focus on its distinct type of business and better pursue its own growth opportunities. Our software and […]

HaiVision Announces Trade-in Program for Amnis and Optivision Video Codecs

Montreal, Canada – October 6, 2004 – HaiVision Systems Inc., a leading vendor of broadband video communications equipment, announces a trade-in credit of up to 33% off the purchase price of HaiVision’s industry leading hai500 series codec systems for any installed Amnis and Optivision NAC-3000 and NAC-4000 series MPEG-2 encoders and decoders. This special offer […]

Watch the Vice Presidential Debate

The only vice presidential debate for the 2004 general election took place on Tuesday, October 5th, when Republican nominee Vice Pres. Richard Cheney debated Democratic nominee Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. Read the Full Story

Preparing School Technology Leaders for Online Professional Development: Training Efforts with El Paso Teachers for Online Course Facilitation in Texas STARgate

Toward this end, 41 technology leaders in El Paso Independent School District engaged in online facilitator instruction through Texas STARgate, a professional development portal for Texas teachers, from December, 2003 to January, 2004. Read the Full Story