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AVU, a non-profit institution based in Nairobi, Kenya, uses distance learning to give college students in sub-Saharan Africa access to the highest-quality learning resources available. Initiated by the World Bank in 1995, there are now 34 AVU learning centers throughout Africa.Read the Full Story
Hoping to connect with local home-schooled students, Cedarburg School District officials are beginning to look at setting up their own virtual school.Read the Full Story
December 10 – The Bend-La Pine School Board held a public hearing at their Tuesday night meeting on a proposed online charter school developed by the district. Read the Full Story
DENVER – December 10, 2003 – eCollege(SM) [Nasdaq: ECLG], a leading provider of value-added information services to the post-secondary education market, today announced a partnership with Elsevier, a market-leading print and online publisher of health science textbooks and journals. The partnership enables faculty who teach through the eCollege System(SM) to use Elsevier’s Evolve Online Courses, […]
Web Lockrz is a web-based, platform independent, file and directory management software suite. Web Lockrz provides secure access to electronic data from anywhere there is a computer with an Internet connection. Web Lockrz provides the platform for electronic portfolio and data archival for an entire school, cluster or even district.Web Lockrz offers:– personal directories for […]
WAYNE, Pa. ? December 10, 2003 ? SunGard Data Systems Inc. (NYSE:SDS) and Systems & Computer Technology Corporation (SCT) (Nasdaq:SCTC) announced today that they have reached a definitive agreement for the acquisition by SunGard of all of the shares of SCT for $16.50 per share in cash. Based on SCT’s approximately 35.4 million fully diluted […]
GeoLearning, Inc., the largest Application Service Provider (ASP) of enterprise learning management systems and e-learning content, announced today that the federal government’s GoLearn e-training site at www.golearn.gov has won a 2003 Grace Hopper Government Technology Leadership Award. The federal e-training site, which is powered by GeoLearning’s GeoMaestro™ learning management system, was recognized for its “leadership […]
For high school football coaches, scouting the competition–or trying to analyze what went wrong or right in a game–once meant tedious hours rewinding and forwarding game tapes.Read the Full Story
Much has been made of assessing web-based classes over the past 20 years. In many research circles, the overwhelming concern has been whether traditional (face-face) classes and those taught via the web (web-based classes) fare the same in terms of student achievement and satisfaction. Read the Full Story
Education institutions will increase spending on technology by about 7 per cent between 2003 and 2007, according to researcher IDC.Read the Full Story