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University of Houston selects WebCT Vista to accommodate accelerating enrollments

LYNNFIELD, Mass., March 8, 2004 – The University of Houston has selected the WebCT Vista(tm) academic enterprise system to accommodate online enrollments that are predicted to double over the next two years to nearly 75,000 seats. WebCT Vista will supplement traditional classroom learning and power distance-learning courses.Other reasons the university chose WebCT Vista over alternatives […]

PLATEAU SYSTEMS Introduces Opensuite(Tm), The Industry’s First Open Architecture E-Learning Suite For The Enterprise

ARLINGTON, VA – March 8, 2004 – Plateau Systems, the leading provider of enterprise software for learning management and organizational readiness, announced today the availability of Plateau OpenSuite(tm), the industry’s first fully-integrated e-Learning suite that is built on open architecture, offering customers the flexibility to select a suite of applications that leverages their existing IT […]

Constructing Experiential Learning for Online Courses: The Birth of E-Service

Advances in technology have forced educational reform, including the development of a new educational paradigm for online distance education. Read the Full Story

Content Delivery in the ‘Blogosphere’

This has included laptops, handhelds, wireless systems and Web-based learning environments. Most recently, however, this interest has focused on blogs and blogging. Read the Full Story

Online charter schools to come to Wyoming

The State Board of Education gave the district approval to move ahead with plans for the first online charter high school in the state. Read the Full Story

A $450,000 grant to create a national online training program in crop biosecurity

The training will be geared for first detectors – those people most likely to notice a problem first, such as crop advisors and county Extension agents. Read the Full Story

Degrees of separation

For the rest of the semester Ian was the only member of his marketing class ever to post questions to the website and communicate online with the lecturer. Read the Full Story

Report: Unused eRate funding spiked in 2002

The federal agency administering the eRate disputes the report on grounds that the data are not all in yet. Read the Full Story

Colleges offer Internet courses

That’s no problem for Jackson since she lives in Japan. It’s also no problem taking a course from ACU, either. There’s no long commute involved — just the click of a mouse. Read the Full Story

MSU’s [Montana State University] Arabic program expanding across country

MSU’s Office of International Programs received the grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Fund for Improvement of Postsecondary Education. Read the Full Story