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Penn State and Napster team up to make legal tunes available to students

Speaking in California at the annual EDUCAUSE meeting of thousands of information technology administrators from universities around the country, Penn State President Graham B. Spanier said the University has signed an agreement with Napster to launch a program in which Penn State will make Napster’s Premium Service available at no cost to its students.Read the […]

The October issue (Vol. 6, Number 4) of Educational Technology & Society

The October issue (Vol. 6, Number 4) of Educational Technology & Society, (ISSN 1436-4522) peer-reviewed online journal, is now available. It is freely accessible at: http://ifets.ieee.org/periodical/6_4/index.html

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

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the phenomenon of conceptual integration, and the unique challenges and opportunities of providing interdisciplinary study online in the context of conceptual integration. Read the Full Story

Colorado State University Continuing Education and Breakthrough Management Group Expand eLearning Offerings with Six Sigma Courses

The parties have announced a strategic partnership which adds online-delivered Six Sigma Certifications to CSU`s non-credit course offerings. Six Sigma is a highly disciplined approach to decision making that helps people focus on improving processes and making business decisions that are driven by data, not by guesswork.Read the Full Story

Management Pioneers Celebrate Tenth Anniversary of Partnership

More than 3,250 students are following the OUBS Professional Certificate and Diploma in Management in the Romanian language. Since 1999 a further 150 students a year have been studying the OUBS MBA in English.In 1993 a joint stock company, CODECS (Centre for Distance Education for a Civic Society), was formed to pioneer the use of […]

YN “A” School Goes Interactive

A Revolution in Navy Training innovation, Sailors now learn to become YNs through a virtual online office that simulates the environment Sailors will encounter at sea.Read the Full Story

2003 UMassOnline Revenue Grows 40% and Enrollments Grow 33%

BOSTON, MA—November 6, 2003—UMassOnline, the University of Massachusetts’ web-based learning division, today announced that online education program revenues and enrollments grew 40 percent and 33 percent, respectively, in 2003. Revenues from the combined online programs at the University exceeded $11 million, up from $7.8 million in 2002, while enrollments reached 13,375, up from 10,039 in […]

Paying for a College Essay

He was a senior at a very selective private school, Saint Albans in Washington. He had a 1450 SAT score and an A-minus average. He was a musical star — chorus, glee club, madrigals, band, orchestra. And he had written what he thought was a good essay on his experience as a Boy Scout leader.Read […]

SCT Announces the Third Generation of the

ANAHEIM, Calif. (EDUCAUSE 2003) ¾ November 6, 2003 ¾ SCT (Nasdaq:SCTC) is making it easier for colleges and universities to manage their vast Web properties and deliver the right information to the right people at the right time. SCT, the leading provider of e-education technology solutions for higher education, today announced the next-generation SCT Luminis™ […]

Online Seminar: Carnegie Mellon and Vignette to Deliver Online Course on Portals in Higher Education

The presentation, titled “Transforming the Business of Academics,” will detail how portal technology enables universities to control costs while meeting the information and service demands of disparate audiences. Read the Full Story