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KnowledgeNet® announces Live Office, an “all-access pass” to expert-led productivity skills training. Live Office provides unlimited access to a complete expert-led training schedule of live Microsoft® Outlook, Word, Access Excel and PowerPoint classes, delivered in a virtual classroom. “Our employees value the expert-led training and the flexibility of KnowledgeNet’s Live Office,” said Maellen Langlois, Corporate […]
WebCT PowerLinks™ provide a framework for institutions to integrate key campus technologies and extend the WebCT platform with innovative applications to meet their specific needs. The Questionmark Perception Connector for WebCT Campus Edition allows instructors to incorporate assessments, designed in Questionmark Perception, within their WebCT courses. The assessments can be organized, scheduled, and included in […]
UMUC’s new Accessibility in Distance Education (ADE) Web site has been designed to meet the needs of faculty who are teaching students with disabilities in the online environment. The ADE site explains accessibility problems that students with disabilities are likely to encounter in navigating Web-based resources, and shows faculty members how they can address and […]
Baltimore, MD — Two new Connections Academy® virtual schools have been approved to serve southern California K-8 students in the 2004 – 2005 school year. Southern California Connections Academy (SoCCA), a new virtual charter school, has been approved unanimously by the San Diego Unified School District, and Capistrano Connections Academy (CapoCA) has been approved unanimously […]
Computer Sciences Corp. will receive payment for consolidating ERIC’s resources into a single database, creating a new search engine and offering access to the full text of articles. Read the Article
Called the STVP Educators Corner, the website is a creation of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), an entrepreneurship education and research center within the School of Engineering. It includes videotaped interviews with Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, Stanford course materials, case studies, and links to organizations, events and journals. Read the Article
PowerDsine(R), a provider of Power over Ethernet (PoE) technology, announced it has launched an educational grant program that will offer $100,000 worth of Power over Ethernet (PoE) midspan products to educational institutions operating in the United States and Canadian provinces. All grants under the PowerDsine Educational Grant Program will be awarded to eligible institutions of […]
WHAT: Congressional briefing: “Data-driven Decision Making: A Powerful Tool to Improve Student Achievement” HOSTS: CoSN, the premier national voice in education technology leadership that promotes the use of information technologies and the Internet in K-12 education (www.cosn.org), in partnership with Educational Testing Services (www.ets.org), SAS (www.sas.com), IBM (www.ibm.com), Dell (www.dell.com), Plato Learning (www.plato.com), SchoolNet (www.schoolnet.com), […]
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. Edubox is […]
The Handbook of Distance Education was co-edited by Dr Anderson and Dr Michael Moore of Penn State University. Read the rest of the article Related Links Sloan-C Book Review An Interview With Michael Moore: Editor Of “Handbook Of Distance Education” Purchase the Book Online