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The court-ordered shutdown of many internet connections belonging to the U.S. Department of the Interior means American Indian children are missing essential educational opportunities, said Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D. Read the Full Story
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 23, 2004 — Interwise®, the foremost provider of enterprise conferencing solutions, today announced that the nationally ranked University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business is expanding its usage of the Interwise Enterprise Communication Platform (ECP) to add live, Internet-based classes to the Terry Evening MBA, Executive MBA and its customized MBA program […]
Sentient Learning has concluded an exclusive agreement with US organisation ePortaro, Inc. to deliver this highly successful product in UK and Ireland. Electronic portfolios (“e-portfolios”) have already received significant uptake in the US, Europe and Australia, enabling the student, academic and institution to build an extensive record of learning, reflections and achievements in electronic format […]
Additionally, John Pope was hired as director of channel sales to develop and manage the new channel program. Read the Full Story
IBM today announced an exclusive three-year agreement with Vital Source Technologies to preload more than 2,000 classics of western civilization on ThinkPad notebooks and ThinkCentre desktops for education customers. In addition, K-12 schools, colleges and universities can work with IBM and VST to preload textbooks and other customized content. Read the Full Story
No longer is DE considered to be novel, or only for the technologically savvy. BlackBoard™ and WebCT™, the two most widely used online course management systems, have made it easier for faculty to reach out to students at any time, in any place. Read the Full Story
Those programmes include courses from the Open University Business School, which offer the opportunity for continuing professional development and for gaining professional management qualifications. Courses in improving computing skills, learning German and Spanish, and in learning about the environment are also being offered.The announcement of the partnership comes after a signing of a Memorandum of […]
Not a day goes by that Macias doesn’t think to herself “Why do good work when we can be doing great work?” Read the Full Story
While more Americans than ever are getting a public education, he said, classrooms will need to change to help children keep up with the developing world. New technologies can also offer better measurements of students’ abilities. Read the Full Story
E-learning was still in its infancy, with technology and expectation often at loggerheads. Only distance learning had an established track record, with institutions such as the Open University leading the way. Read the Full Story