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Improve Workplace Skills With Updated Manager’s Good Study Guide

It is edited by Sheila Tyler, a lecturer in management development at the Open University Business School. She has drawn together a team of contributors from the School and the wider university.This new version will help managers and students to work more effectively by:  developing their skills in constructing logical and persuasive arguments, in […]

Wanted: Scientific proof for learning arts

It’s also changing the way companies market their products to educators. But while everyone agrees the provision’s intentions are good, the law has created a host of new problems its authors never anticipated. Read the Full Story

ASTD 2004 International Conference & Exposition!

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GoalQuest™ and NASPA [National Association of Student Personnel Administrators] Announce Collaborative Partnership

The partnership will expose NASPA members to the innovative ways in which technology can be used to support and better assess student development and retention efforts. GoalQuest and NASPA will unveil details of the alliance during NASPA’s 2004 Annual Conference in Denver, Colorado, March 27-31. Read the Full Story

Portal for European Teachers Re-Launched: eSchoolnet

It is a comprehensive and powerful resource for educators in Europe, including learning resources, education news, practice examples, online communities and other opportunities to meet colleagues, national education fact files and much more. Read the Full Story

Plugged In

The Borchardt Cyber Café – with locations near MacArthur Park and Chinatown – will provide seniors with free one-on-one basic computer training from USC student volunteers bilingual in Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Japanese, Tagalog and Armenian. Read the Full Story

US fund SCP buys distance learning co Q Group

SCP Private Equity Partners of the US, which has former prime minister Ehud Barak as a partner, has acquired the controlling interest in Anglo-Israeli distance learning company Q Group plc for $30 million. Read the Full Story

A prescriptive study of early trends in implementing e-learning in the UK Higher Education Sector

This paper examines whether the benefits of e-learning have materialised and how this relates to organisational change, policies and strategies. Read the Full Story

30,000+ students register for courses with Athabasca University

Figures just released by the University show that, as of Feb. 1, 2004, Athabasca University has some 30,720 undergraduate students and 2,984 graduate students – the highest enrolment in the University’s 30-year history. Read the Full Story

E-learning grows in and out of university

There has been much talk of a coming revolution in higher education caused by electronic media and the ability of students to study whole courses from a distance. Read the Full Story