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Kaplan poised to be online leader

Today’s online professor “has a lot more power,” said Andrew Rosen, credited with growing Kaplan Inc. from a test preparation business to a diversified education company with thousands of online students. Rosen has been president and chief operating officer of Kaplan since 1997; he also is president of Kaplan College.Read the Full Story

New principal gears up for district’s new virtual school

“We had one terminal. The kids had one hour a week they could work on it individually,” said Diener. “It was slow and it wasn’t very powerful.”Read the Full Story

Vigorous overseas ad campaign

The campaign, by international student recruitment body IDP, is in response to a drop-off in applications through the not-for-profit organisation in the first three months of this year.Read the Full Story

Innovate Call for Manuscripts

Innovate is dedicated to presenting articles via the most dynamic, interactive technology that is available. For each article, the journal provides an online discussion forum, an interactive webcast that connects authors and readers, and a “read-related” feature that links visitors to articles on similar topics. A multimedia classifieds section and journal editions in multiple languages […]

Online Training Saves Big Bucks

Fairfield, Ohio-based CIC, a P&C insurer operating in 31 states, has 2,400 headquarter associates, but no regional offices. Read the Full Story

I.B.M. and Cisco Planning Joint Internet Phone Venture

Executives from the companies called the new relationship an effort to help increase the acceptance of Internet phone service among corporate users.Read the Full Story

Trivantis Named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Hot 100 Fastest Growing Entrepreneurial Companies in America

Founded in 1999 by chief executive officer Tim Loudermilk, Trivantis achieved success and profitability in market conditions that have witnessed the crash of most software start-ups. Undeterred by the dot-com bust of 2000 and the struggling economy of the past three years, Trivantis has grown to become the major publishing technology company in the e-learning […]

A Meta-Analysis of the Effectiveness of Teaching and Learning With Technology on Student Outcomes (2003)

In 2003, Hersh Waxman, Meng-Fen Lin, and Georgette Michko extended the study to include data from 42 studies representing a combined sample of approximately 7000 students. This study is presented below. The mean of the study-weighted effect sizes averaging across all outcomes was .410 (p < .001), with a 95-percent confidence interval (CI) of .175 […]

Engineering Profession Must Adapt to Maintain Future Leadership

The report recommends ways to improve engineers’ training and prepare them for the complex technical, social and ethical questions raised by emerging technologies. Press Release Full Report

Diploma mill crackdown: Officials vow end to feds’ use of suspect degrees

To receive a doctorate from ba: we sure about this?yesHamilton, which is not an accredited school, requires of its doctoral candidates, not years of research resulting in a thorough thesis, but a four-page paper, a five-hour correspondence course on business ethics — and $3,600.Read the Full Story