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Online University Consortium Releases Learner Assessment Tool

Salt Lake City, Utah – The Online University Consortium, the nation’s largest network of top name universities, today announced its new Web-based assessment tool for prospective students considering online degree programs. The Online Learner Assessment helps students determine their aptitude for online education in order to choose the best solution for their individual learning style. […]

Macromedia Announces Availability Of Breeze Lms Adapter For Plateau

San Francisco – October 14, 2003 – Macromedia(r) (Nasdaq: MACR) today announced the availability of the Breeze Learning Management System (LMS) Adapter for Plateau which seamlessly integrates Macromedia Breeze(tm) with the Plateau 4 LMS, giving enterprise customers the ability to rapidly author, manage, deliver and measure learning content on a scalable, single Web-based platform.Mission-critical training […]

Online, night classes rise in popularity even as government money shies away

“I think that it’s great for what I paid for it,” said Seattle Central online student Richard Lamanna. He’s 23 and has been taking college courses since his senior year in high school. Read the Full Story

New Director – Meet IVC’s [Illinois Virtual University] new Director – Iris Stovall

Iris comes to the IVC from the Illinois Online Network (ION), where she held the position of Director.Read the Full Story

Position Announcement: Online Learning Corporate Sales

The successful candidate will make arrangements with corporate training officers and human resources personnel to offer WebCampus online courses to corporate employees worldwide. WebCampus.Stevens catalog now offers more than 160 online courses in four online master’s degrees and 22 graduate and 4 continuing education programs. Knowledge of the corporate training or human resources marketplace is […]

eSN Special Feature: Voice over IP: Your call

Providing each teacher with a traditional phone line from a telecommunications company is costly–about $30 a month per line, per teac advertisement her. But many school districts have successfully reduced this extra cost by operating their telephone system in house over their high-speed data networks. Read the Full Story

Execs who are tech dummies seek secret training

Yet there is nothing unsavory about Jennifer Shaheen’s line of work. Read the Full Story

Books24x7 Partners with GoLearn to Offer Federal Workers On-Line, Searchable Access to Key Business and IT Titles

NORWOOD, Mass., Oct. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Books24x7, a subsidiary of SkillSoft PLC (Nasdaq: SKIL), announced today that it has partnered with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Gov Online Learning Center (GoLearn), to offer registered GoLearn users on-line, searchable access to 55 IT and business titles from a variety of publishers, including Microsoft […]

Studycard Studio Makes it Easier to Create and Exchange Multimedia Flashcards

For Immediate ReleaseROLLING MEADOWS, Illinois–October 14, 2003–Digital Meadow today announced the release of Studycard Studio 2.0, and the free Studycard Studio Lite 2.0. The new versions are the latest major update to Digital Meadow’s multimedia flashcard applications for Mac OS X and OS 9.Studycard Studio 2.0 offers the ability to print individual cards or multiple […]

Monitoring Student Performance in Online Courses: New Game—New Rules

This imposes challenges for a virtual instructor trying to monitor and assess online students’ progress and gain some assurances of satisfactory completion of knowledge transfer. This article presents the experience of a virtual instructor with adult students completing a health and safety course entitled Lockout. Three typical cases are presented whereby the instructor must evaluate […]