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HRRC (Home Recording Rights Coalition ) Voices Caution And Concern Over New Copyright Office Recommendation On “Induce” Bill

Washington, Septermber 13, 2004 – The Home Recording Rights Coalition (HRRC) today said that a new recommendation from the U.S. Copyright Office to the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding “induce” legislation would need much more scrutiny and discussion – including a full Congressional hearing – before it could be considered as a basis for a consensus […]

LEARNTEC 2005 Focuses on Best of American Innovation

KARLSRUHE, GERMANY, September 13, 2004 – LEARNTEC 2005 today announced that innovation in American e-Learning will be the highlight of its 13th European Conference and Specialist Trade Fair for Educational and Informational Technology. Beginning February 14 in Karlsruhe, Germany, the conference will offer American businesses the opportunity to expand into this growing international market.“LEARNTEC is […]

Elluminate and Sloan Consortium to Develop First of Its Kind Synchronous eLearning Best Practices Program

Pampano Beach, Florida., (September 13, 2004) – Elluminate, Inc., a leading provider of live eLearning and Web conferencing solutions for education, and Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C), an association of academic institution s and organizations that share information about effective online learning, announced today that they are working together to research and develop synchronous eLearning best practices. […]

University of London Consortium Adopts Blackboard Academic Suite

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Blackboard Inc. (Nasdaq: BBBB) announced today that it has installed the Blackboard Academic Suite(TM) for a consortium of leading University of London colleges. The Bloomsbury Blackboard Consortium comprises The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), and The Royal Veterinary College (RVC).Through […]

IBM to Contribute Speech Software to Apache Software and Eclipse Foundations

NEW YORK, NY — Sep 13, 2004 — SpeechTEK 2004 — IBM today announced it is contributing software to the open source community in a move to spur the availability of speech-enabled applications by making it easier and more attractive for developers to build and add speech recognition capability in a standardized way.The initiative, supported […]

HaiVision Announces H.264 Video Encoder/Decoder

The new multi-format HM2 codec blade adheres to the H.264 standard as defined in section 10 of the international MPEG-4 specifications, ensuring complete inter-operability with other vendors who comply with the standard. Moreover, the HM2 is designed to meet the same stringent technical performance levels defined by HaiVision’s award winning MPEG-2 codec systems, i.e. highest […]

eCollege’s Product Vision to Drive Profitable Growth and Regulatory Compliance

DENVER – September 13, 2004 – eCollege(SM) [Nasdaq: ECLG], a leading provider of value-added information services to the post-secondary education market, today announced its product advancement vision driven by a focus on student retention, operational efficiency and program reporting, which yields top and bottom line growth for institutions, and supports regulatory compliance.In the fourth quarter […]

HIV/Aids will wreak havoc if staff are not trained to change behaviour

The biggest problem regarding the increasing number of HIV/Aids infected individuals is most people do not acknowledge that the country faces a crisis if something is not done to reduce the rate of infection. According to a recent report on News24, research from the Actuarial Society of South Africa (ASSA) shows that “the virus will […]

Distance Education and the Mainstream: Interaction as an Indicator of Distance in Education

Another indicator often presented is the emergence of the smart classrooms. In such classrooms, the faculty have access to the Internet by high speed wired connection, or even wireless technology and are capable to include Websites, and other display materials to students in their lecture.Interaction as the Relevant IndicatorIn short, technology is often indicted as […]

Distance Education and the Mainstream: Interaction as an Indicator of Distance in Education

Another indicator often presented is the emergence of the smart classrooms. In such classrooms, the faculty have access to the Internet by high speed wired connection, or even wireless technology and are capable to include Websites, and other display materials to students in their lecture.Interaction as the Relevant IndicatorIn short, technology is often indicted as […]