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New Open Source Distance Learning / Course Managment Software Launch

The event scheduled for November 20th, 2003, will begin at 10:00 AM and run through the remainder of the day, covering the system’s history, benefits and feature set. For those that wish to attend the event please email eduevent@tapinternet.com. The event is open to any IT staff, faculty or departmental staff at an educational institution […]

World Wide Access: Bringing the Internet to Everyone

Unfortunately, a great number of people can do none of these things – not because they don’t have Internet access or the latest high-speed connection – but because the sites they visit don’t accommodate their number one need: Web accessibility.Read the Full Story

School district launches Rapid City Academy Online

The Rapid City School District’s academy is launching a virtual high school: Rapid City Academy Online.Read the Full Story

The Personalized System of Instruction: Review and Applications to Distance Education

Some common misconceptions about PSI are also addressed. PSI is presented as a helpful universally applicable set of instructional practices that are well suited to distance teaching and learning.Read the Full Story

Managing Costs: The Goldilocks Phenomenon

At its most basic level, you may want to think of cost management as a Goldilocks issue: not too much and not too little investment but a “just right” level of spending that achieves maximum value without waste or insufficiency. Read the Full Story

United Technologies Selects GeoLearning LMS to Consolidate Enterprise E-Learning

GeoLearning, Inc., the largest Application Service Provider (ASP) of enterprise learning management systems and e-learning content, announced today that United Technologies Corporation (NYSE: UTX), a $28 billion corporation with approximately 203,000 employees that provides high technology products and services to the commercial building and aerospace industries, has selected the GeoExpress™ LMS as its enterprise learning […]

NJIT [New Jersey Institute of Technology] Implements SCT Luminis Content Management Suite To Communicate Its Well-Respected Brand

ANAHEIM, Calif. (EDUCAUSE 2003) – November 7, 2003 – The New Jersey Institute of Technology is successfully using the SCT Luminis Content Management Suite to better communicate its brand image and institutional excellence to visitors of its Web site.SCT (Nasdaq:SCTC) is highlighting the Institute’s achievements at EDUCAUSE 2003, the premier IT event for higher education, […]

FCC Endorses Built-In Copy Controls

WASHINGTON — To the dismay of consumer advocates, the Federal Communications Commission has voted to mandate technology that prevents users from sharing copy-protected digital broadcasts. Read the Full Story

ADL’s Plugfest 8 Marks Maturity in E-Learning Standardization Work

Plugfest 8 brought e-learning organizations and experts together to refine the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) and other e-learning practices, procedures and standards.Read the Full Story

Education getting high-tech face-lift

People, regardless of their age and occupation, can log onto certain Websites to select and take courses available in the system according to their own interests, just like when they are shopping in big supermarkets. Read the Full Story