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APTS [The Association of Public Television Stations] President John Lawson Lays Out Public Television Stations’ Plan To Complete The Digital Transition Before House Panel

Lawson made his remarks in testimony at a hearing titled “The Digital Transition: What We Can Learn from Berlin” before the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.Read the Full Story

China says population of Internet users reaches 87m

The number of broadband subscribers has jumped 78.7 percent in the past six months to 31.1 million, the China Internet Network Information Center said on its Web site. Read the Full Story

New initiative aims to make open standards and open source an open book

In a recent survey of global CEOs by IBM Business Consulting Services 75 percent of the CEOs surveyed cited education and the lack of qualified candidates as the issues that will have the greatest impact on their business over the next three years.Read the Full Story

Collaborative e-Learning Using Streaming Video and Asynchronous Discussion Boards to Teach the Cognitive Foundation of Medical Interviewing: A Case Study

Objective: We created and evaluated a 4-week online elective course for medical students to teach the cognitive basis for interviewing skills. Read the Full Story

Business Degrees Most Popular with Adults Looking to Return to School, According to EducationforAdults.com Survey

CHESTER, Pa., July 20 /PRNewswire/ — In a recent survey conducted by EducationforAdults.com, an online directory of continuing education programs, business and education degree programs are the most popular programs for adult learners, with 19.96 percent and 16.20 percent of the responses, respectively.Read the Full Story

Open-source software running the Internet under the radar

It’s open-source software, a wide spectrum of programs developed not under the lock and key of a single company but by the communal efforts of volunteers who often start with little more than common interests and e-mail discussion groups.Read the Full Story

Idaho adds $5M to its PLATO Learning deal

On July 15, PLATO Learning snagged a new contract worth $5.03 million to provide Idaho public schools with a computerized program that will help struggling students pass the state’s mandatory high school graduation test. In January, Idaho signed a $16.8 million contract with PLATO Learning to provide software and support for Idaho’s statewide computerized student […]

Scaled-back Macworld endures Apple absence

Noticeably absent from the show were Apple Computer and its chief executive, Steve Jobs, who traditionally delivers the keynote speech. Jobs had declared his company’s intention not to participate after the show’s organizer, Framingham, Mass.-based IDG World Expo, announced plans to shift the event from New York back to Boston. (The East Coast version of […]

GU [Goa University] launches distance education programme

DEITI is a major Government of India project at the university for improving the quality and uniformity in college as well as school education.Read the Full Story

Thomson Learning Announces Acquisition of Group Modulo Inc.

Group Modulo, Inc., based in Montreal, Quebec Canada, is a French-language publisher of textbooks for the K-12 and post-secondary markets. The addition of Modulo is a key growth opportunity for Thomson as it provides an entre into the French-language markets in both the school and higher education segments.Read the Full Story