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WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Blackboard Inc. (Nasdaq: BBBB – News) today announced a strategic relationship with MERLOT (the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Training) to improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning by increasing the number of high quality resources available to online learning communities. Read the Full Story
There is an old saying in business, “What gets measured gets done; what gets rewarded gets done repeatedly.†Read the Full Story
“We can’t do it as long as we assess the way we’ve been assessing — with paper-and-pencil testing,” Wilhoit told a legislative subcommittee yesterday. Read the Full Story
Interim Superintendent Marilyn Tillman said at least 176 students were in the district’s elementary, middle, and alternative schools. The elementary school had 98 students, the middle school 28 students, and the alternative education program had more than 50 students – though a firm figure was not available.Read the Full Story
This article argues that the promotion of the digital divide as a policy issue benefits four major groups: information capital, developing country governments, the development “industry,” and global civil society.Read the Full Story
CHARLES TOWN, W.Va., Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ — American Public University System students — currently 11,000 distance learners around the world — will soon each have access to 10 free hours of tutoring from a 24-hour online tutoring center. Read the Full Story
In football, the game of the century seems to happen twice a decade. Read the Full Story
Looking for an alternative, FSU selected Parature for its flexibility, quick deployment time and ease of use. FSU implemented Parature’s knowledge base references, download functionalities, trouble ticket submission, survey functionalities and integrated contact management piece. With the upcoming school year rapidly approaching, FSU needed a solution that could meet their requirements and be fully deployed […]
NASHUA, N.H., Sep 1, 2004 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ — SkillSoft PLC (Nasdaq: SKIL), a leading provider of content resources and complementary technologies for integrated enterprise learning, today announced development plans for SkillSoft(R) Dialogue(TM), a new virtual classroom technology product that will complement SkillSoft’s wide variety of formal and informal learning content resources and the SkillPort(TM) […]
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ — ViewCentral, Inc., the leading provider of Collaboration Management Solutions, and Interwise, the leader in true enterprise conferencing, today announced a product integration designed to simplify the production of Web-based events for large enterprise customers. According to the agreement, ViewCentral version 4.6, the company’s flagship solution for managing Web-based […]