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Plumbers and Heating Engineers Switch on IntraLearn

London, UK– IntraLearn Europe Ltd. of Guernsey, England, the European subsidiary of IntraLearn Software Corporation, the leading supplier of configurable e-Learning software applications to the mid-market, announced today an agreement with The Learning Business, a UK content publisher, to use IntraLearn LSP to host online specialist courses services for the plumbing and heating profession.The Learning […]

Supporting Faculty in the Design and Structuring of Web-based Courses

Introduction “The really truly hard part to web-based course design is in content design. A reasonably competent computer professional can provide chat facilities, threaded discussion lists, web pages, on-line registration, etc. But the core of on-line course materials will have to be determined by experts in the field working with experts in distance education delivery.” […]

Online courses offer a new choice for learning

With more than 3,000 students enrolled in FSC’s continuing education program, the popularity of online courses is continuing to grow.Read the Full Story

Peer tutors go to front of class

The Grade 12 peer-tutoring course, still in its infancy, sees 36 students spend four days a week in class at their schools, helping their teacher and younger students. They spend one day a week getting through the curriculum online. Read the Full Story

Homeland security proving to be a big boost for Karta

Karta, a privately owned engineering and information technology company, now expects to finish the year with more than $45 million in revenues — a more than 50 percent increase from last year.Read the Full Story

Apples are in, board members are out in laptop flap

It took only a month of campaigning for write-in candidates Nancy Hoffman and Christopher Kunze to harness the public’s anger over the decision, which critics also said was an unnecessary expense in a time of tight budgets.Read the Full Story

Library to offer free distance learning for Latinos

The Centro Comunitario de Aprendizaje (CCA), or Community Learning Center, is one of only two in North Carolina. The other is planned for Asheville. Read the Full Story

OpenTV Announces the Sale of ACTV’s Online Education Business; eSchool Online Sold to Classroom Connect, Inc.

eSchool(R) Online provides rich, multiple-media professional development content and K-12 curriculum courseware to large urban school districts, state education departments and major educational publishers, and complements the offerings of Classroom Connect and Harcourt Education. Read the Full Story

U.S. to double offshore tech services?

The offshore spending component of the U.S. technology services market will rise to 10 percent of the total spending, or $16.3 billion, in 2003. IDC also expects offshore spending to more than quadruple to $46 billion, or 23 percent of the total, by 2007. Read the Full Story

E-Learning Trends 2003

This year we asked readers the same questions to gage the impact that technology developments, supplier consolidations, and economy have had on e-learning efforts. The 2003 Survey was sent to subscribers of LC Express in October 2003, and received 272 responses. Here’s a breakdown of responses.Read the Full Story