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Knowledge Anywhere Unveils New E-Learning Programs for Companies with Multinational Audiences

Knowledge Anywhere, Inc., a leading provider of custom e-learning solutions, today announced that it has developed an e-learning solution for companies with multinational audiences. Following on the success of its U.S.-based e-learning solutions, Knowledge Anywhere, has completed an e-learning program to bring training to companies with employees and customers in a variety of countries. Read […]

Online learning to become a reality at the Laporte School

The Minnesota Center of Online Learning, Northern Division, Laporte, will offer a wide range of online courses designed to allow students access to educational courses to earn their high school diplomas. Read the Full Story

Blackboard Inc. and Open Universiteit Nederland Announce Strategic Alliance

Under the terms of the alliance, Blackboard and OUNL will work to integrate Edubox and the Blackboard’s Learning and Portal Systems through Blackboard’s open Application Programming Interfaces (API’s). Together the technologies will combine the functionality of Blackboard’s products with advanced features from Edubox, including compliance with the new international standard for Learning Design. Read the […]

UMUC/PBS Live broadcast on Accessibility in Online Learning,

Produced by UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE (UMUC) for PBS Adult Learning Service Supported with grants from SBC Foundation and NEC Foundation of America You are invited to participate in a live satellite broadcast on accessibility in online teaching and learning from 2:30-4:00 pm on April 22, 2004. The broadcast will be in the form […]

eLearning: Strategy, Development and Standards

With interest and investment in large scale e-learning and knowledge management escalating around the world, this is an opportunity for an audience in the UK to hear about the Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI http://web.mit.edu/oki ). OKI is a collaboration by a group of leading universities, led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and other […]

The University of Michigan Releases Specs For eLearning Software Project

These specifications, called the Sakai Technology Portability Profile, will ensure software being developed will operate across the systems of participating university partners: UM, Stanford University, Indiana University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Read it Online

Echelon survey shows e-learning is gaining ground

Research by Echelon Learning, the consultancy-led learning publisher, has revealed that web-delivered learning is gaining in popularity and is now the second most popular way of acquiring both knowledge and skills. Respondents were asked five questions: – What was their preferred delivery mechanism for acquiring a skill? – What was their preferred delivery mechanism for […]

Financial services leads the way in e-learning

The research, provided by e-learning provider SkillSoft, entailed questioning employees working in 16 global organisations, over a third of whom worked in the financial services industry. Read it Online

Sylvan Learning Systems, Inc. Buys KIT eLearning B.V.

The other selling shareholders of KIT are Elron’s controlling shareholder, Discount Investment Corporation and Kidum IT Ltd., a privately held Israeli company. Elron will receive an amount of approximately $5.7 million from the immediate proceeds of the sale and will record a gain of approximately $5.3 million in the first quarter of 2004. About KIT […]

Pathlore Gives Training a Lift at Maryland Transit Administration

With an annual budget of $720 million, the MTA runs bus, subway, light-rail and commuter rail services as well as a freight rail system. The agency’s employees range from bus operators and mechanics to directors and general managers. Each will use the LMS to manage their career development plans as well as register for classes […]