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Impediment no barrier

After seven years of unproductive consultations with the states, the Federal Government is set to act unilaterally next year, with regulations enforcing training accessibility for disabled people. The move is likely to cause the re-engineering of e-learning systems and curriculum, and modification of face-to-face software application courses.Read the Full Story

Charter school proposal advancing

The Lawrence school district is designing an online charter school that would cost $2 million over three years.Read the Full Story

Napa County Office of Education Chooses Peterson’s Online SAT Prep for its 8 High Schools

The Napa County Office of Education has selected an online SAT course designed by Peterson’s, part of The Thomson Corporation (TSX: TOC; NYSE: TOC) and a leading provider of test preparation and other college admissions services, to improve the SAT scores and college acceptance rates of the students who attend high school in the five […]

U.N. Weighs Internet Ground Rules

That complicated issue and the question of who will pay for putting poor nations online were the two topics that negotiators from 192 countries were unable to resolve in laborious wrangling leading up to the three-day summit that starts Wednesday.Read the Full Story

Learntec 2004

Network with Europe’s educational technology leaders. Germany’s nine-city Technology Region Karlsruhe plays host to this four-day event with more than 10,000 attendees and 280 international exhibitors, all looking to share their knowledge, experience and opportunity with you.Read the Full Story

Universities urged to widen scope of ICT education

The Minister of Communication and Technology, Albert Kan Dapaah said this when he opened a conference on microprocessor laboratory in Kumasi.Read the Full Story

Polycom opens India office

MUMBAI: To cater to the growing demand of its products in the country, Polycom, provider of video, voice, data and web conferencing, has opened its office in New Delhi and is expecting a huge growth in the coming days.Read the Full Story

The University of Western Ontario selects WebCT Vista to power next stage of e-learning growth

The university will use WebCT Vista to accommodate the accelerating e-learning enrollments both on campus and from a distance.Read the Full Story

Conceptual Integration in Online Interdisciplinary Study: Current Perspective, Theories, and Implications for Future Research

Learners engaged in interdisciplinary studies online are faced with the difficult task of integrating chaotic pieces of information, various ways of knowing, and dissimilar concepts from various disciplines into a coherent and integrated body of knowledge. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the phenomenon of conceptual integration, and the unique challenges and opportunities […]

Athabasca University president shares honour

In September of 2003, Abrioux traveled to Versailles France to accept an Honourary Doctor of the Open University from The Open University in the U.K. With almost 200,000 students, The Open University is considered one of the world’s leaders in distance education.Read the Full Story