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You’ll never get lost on WGU campus

Office staff walk briskly and quietly through the halls of the WGU administration building, which, by point of fact, is the school’s only building.Read the Full Story

Sims, Sims, Sims

Meanwhile, corporate training executives should keep an eye out for new techniques suitable for the workforce.Read the Full Story

LMS [Learning Management Systems] Usage and Implementation: Market Analysis

Earlier this summer, the Bersin-LTI Research Center conducted a major survey to understand market penetration, implementation times and costs, and key applications of Learning Management Systems. Read the Full Story

New Discs Double DVD Storage

Companies are demonstrating dual-layer versions of both DVD-R and DVD+R discs that offer almost double the data capacity of today’s standard blank DVD discs.Read the Full Story

Grant Awarded to Evaluate Effectiveness of EHealth Technologies

As part of this grant, Harborview Medical Center faculty from the University of Washington School of Medicine, will be involved in a study titled, “Randomized Controlled Trial of Diabetes Disease Management Over the Internet.” Read the Full Story

The Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications Webcasts: Best Practices in Student Services Online

The Power of Community: Creating an Online Involvement and Activities Interface Saint Leo University Center for Online Learning is providing a centralized forum through which student involvement opportunities, support services, community building devices, and leadership avenues can be accessed. Known as iRoar, this interface compliments classroom offerings by going beyond essential services, such as financial […]

Online classes paying the way

Instead, Zahler paid extra for online and evening courses that don’t depend on the Legislature for funding.Read the Full Story

Fall 2003 Internet2 Member Meeting

The Fall 2003 Internet2 Member Meeting will be held Monday, October 13 through Thursday, October 16, 2003, at the Indianapolis Marriott Downtown, Indianapolis, Indiana. From this page you can reach links to registration, the program, lodging and transportation information, and a variety of other meeting-related events. MEETING INFORMATION

ORGANIZATIONS LAUD INNOVATIVE OPEN-ACCESS PUBLISHING VENTURE Inaugural Issue of PLoS Biology Provides Free Access to Top-tier Biology Research

PLoS is employing a new model for scientific publishing in which research articles are freely available to read and use through the Internet. The costs of publication are recovered not from subscription fees?which limit information access and use?but from publication fees paid by authors out of their grant funds and from other sources.Organizations voicing their […]

Using the Internet to enable developing country universities to meet the challenges of globalization through collaborative virtual programmes

This paper shows that, if used wisely, information technology has the power to help create powerful and synergistic educational partnerships at local, regional and global scale. Such new and large-scale partnerships, only possible because of the existence of the Internet, have the potential to allow educational institutions to respond positively to globalization and help promote […]