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The Sustainability of Distance Training: Follow-up to Case Studies

An organization must create a solid link between its training function and its business or strategic planning goals to sustain a high-quality, cost-effective distance training program.Read the Full Story

Learning Philosophy at The Sloan School

Beyond its longstanding reputation for technical innovation, MIT has also taken the lead in the development and application of e-learning, including the unprecedented Open Courseware Project and the famous Media Lab. Read the Full Story

Interactive University Announces £6 Million Singapore Deal

The deal was warmly welcomed by Deputy First Minister, Jim Wallace who was also in Singapore to open the new office of Scottish Development International.Nanyang Institute of Management is Singapore’s leading provider of private education. The new agreement with Interactive University (IU) will enable a potential 1,500 students from Singapore to study for Scottish under-graduate […]

Blackboard Announces European Advisory Board

The formation of the Blackboard European Advisory Board serves as a critical platform for collaboration with the European academic community. Board members will share their ideas, experiences, and innovations with other members and Blackboard’s product development team, as well as represent peer perspectives to ensure that Blackboard solutions continue to align with the diverse needs […]

State Fair Community College selects Collegis as academic and administrative services partner

(Maitland, Fla. and Sedalia, Mo. — October 31, 2003) — The board of trustees at State Fair Community College in Missouri has selected Collegis to help manage the school’s technology operations. The five-year, $3.3 million contract with Collegis, a higher education services company, calls for the firm to assume responsibility for all administrative systems, technical […]

Pathlore First Major LMS Vendor Certified by E-Learning Standards Groups

“The ADL and AICC certification programs ensure that customers can validate a vendor’s claim of interoperability,” said Leonard Greenberg, chief technology officer at Pathlore. “Since 1997, we’ve lobbied for the adoption of standards across our industry because we want customers to know that the content they buy or build will run in a standard way […]

FlashPack 1.5 Released – flash movie standalone maker for Pocket PC.

FlashPack 1.5 now offers support for Windows Mobile 2003 along with great new features and customization options. FlashPack 1.5 allows users to add custom HTML to their flash application runtime (like FSCOMMANDS), control device features by accessing API, launching external applications through Shell Commands and more. All these great features are totally controllable from within […]

The Digital Book; A Medial Revolution without a New Medium

Is the Internet—or rather the World Wide Web contained in it—a medium that opposes the book? In the context of discussions regarding media competition, this idea is becoming widespread. Infinitely more exciting, though, is that we are experiencing an information technology revolution and, in fact, a medial revolution without a new medium.lume is designed to […]

Distance education increases in popularity, prevalence

These courses at the University of Wisconsin System have become more popular, Roger Maclean, UW associate dean in the Division of Continuing Studies said.Read the Full Story

Online courses: A growing trend in education

The formation of the task force was outlined in President Robert Caret’s fall address in SeptemberRead the Full Story