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On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission is set to consider approving a notice of proposed rulemaking, the first step in a lengthy process of writing regulations for Internet-based phone services. Read the Full Story
The sudden realization that you had nothing to wear Monday morning except for an ancient undershirt and a tattered pair of flare-leg corduroys. The frantic scramble for quarters. Lugging a canvas bag the size of a VW Beetle and a suitcase of Tide down to the laundry room — only to find 30 other people […]
From the early days of correspondence courses to the “colleges without walls” movement of the 1970s and 1980s, community college educators have demonstrated a commitment to extending the reach of education in their continuing efforts to make a difference for students and communities.Read the Full Story
Not to be confused with the College of Business’ Compass career services, Illinois Compass has just gone into testing in approximately 40 courses with about 3,500 students, said Lanny Arvan, CITES assistant CIO of Educational Technologies.Read the Full Story
Such challenges include stimulating economic growth, mitigating environmental problems, safely adopting beneficial new technologies, and quickly responding to sudden outbreaks of new diseases. No nation can now afford to be without access to a credible, independent science and technology (S&T) research capacity that would help it to develop informed policies and take effective action in […]
Dick Murray, superintendent of Muskingum Valley Education Association, and Mike Carder, executive director of TRECA Digital Learning Academy, presented a program that would help the district start an online conversion community school that could eventually be embedding back into the regular school system.Read the Full Story
ThickEnvelope.com offers an $80 test to calculate a student’s chances of admission to 80 top universities, ranging from Harvard and the University of California-Berkley to the University of Wisconsin. Critics have said the new site, like many others that charge for this service, is a scam to profit from the anxiety of high-school students and […]
The partnership between PLATO Learning and Galveston ISD was made possible through the Texas Education Agency’s TARGET (Technology Applications Readiness Grants for Empowering Texas students and teachers) grant initiative. Read the Full Story
BELLEVUE, Wash.–Feb. 5, 2004–Click2learn (Nasdaq:CLKS), leader in enterprise productivity solutions, today announced that Interactive Advantage Corporation (IAC), a multimedia software development and consulting company, and a leading Click2learn value-added reseller in the Southeast US, has successfully deployed ToolBook Instructor as the enterprise authoring solution for its QuickStart Package.The program is designed to help companies rapidly […]
“Congratulations to Class.com for the release of Spanish 2B,” said Judy Fowler, president of Holt. “Holt’s many years of educational content experience coupled with Class.com’s online technical expertise are a perfect match for an online language course.”“With the release of Spanish 2B, we now offer two full years of Spanish,” said Class.com CEO Katherine Endacott. […]