Wall Street Welcomes Blackboard
Stock in the online learning company was priced at $14 a share, began trading at $15.80, rose as high as $23.38 and closed at $20.01.Read the Full Story
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More students opt for classes via the Net
But it doesn’t bother Smith, who admittedly prefers sitting beside his students when teaching. This, however, is a hybrid class, one of several offered at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College that lets students complete part of the course in a classroom and the rest online.Read the Full Story
Logging on to learn
The Cactus High School students wanted to take a seminary class offered by their church but knew it would mean losing class time at school.Read the Full Story
Job Announcement: Distance Education Specialist
M.S. in instructional technology or related field with two-plus years of hands-on experience in the effective design and development of multimedia-rich, interactive and engaging distance learning environments with a special focus on web-based instruction. Demonstrated ability to work closely with faculty in the design, development and delivery support of effective, efficient and appealing web-based course […]
Administrative & Student Management Software
With Server 7, users have the ability to perform searches and calculations on the server instead of the client database, which provides data speed gains and greater performance from hard disk storage systems and multi-CPU servers.Read the Full Story
Selections from the Naxi Manuscript Collection
The Naxi use a unique pictographic writing system that is similar to the ancient Egyptian and Mayan writing systems. It is the only living pictographic language in the world today. This online presentation features 185 manuscripts, a 39½ -foot funerary scroll and an annotated catalog of the entire collection.Visit the online presentation
Sentient Learning Expands Global Sales Distribution Network
The January 04 launch of Sentient DISCOVER v2.0 has generated a phenomenal amount of interest across Europe, North America, Asia, Australasia and Africa. More than 150 Universities have requested and received online demonstrations of the new DISCOVER release in recent weeks. This has driven the need for Sentient Learning to further expand its sales distribution […]
Press Statement on the E-Rate Program by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and the Consortium for School Networking (COSN)
We are disappointed to learn that a few individuals have engaged in practices that undermine the E-Rate program and endanger the great benefits it provides millions of students, teachers and community members. We support all efforts to protect the integrity of the E-Rate and bring to justice individuals that have committed fraud upon the program. […]
ISTE and Microsoft Team Up to Provide Online Assessments Of Technology Literacy in Middle Schoolers
To help teachers monitor student progress and meet those requirements, an innovative new online tool to assess the technological literacy of middle school students will make its debut during a demonstration* at the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in New Orleans on Saturday, June 19, 2004. Developed as a collaboration between the International Society for […]
State officials find flaws with new virtual charter proposal
The Idaho Distance Education Academy is targeted at home-schoolers. They’d get a state-paid allotment of 600 to 16 hundred dollars a year _ depending on a child’s grade _ and can still pick whatever curriculum parents want.Read the Full Story