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Some 200 TEA staff lost their jobs as part of the consolidation. The 16-member technology division was reduced to just five workers, who were then dispersed among the remaining parts of the downsized agency.Read the Full Story
House Government Reform Committee chair Tom Davis (R-Va.) joined ranking minority member Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) in introducing the bill. Under the measure, federal agencies would have to protect their computers from what Waxman and Davis described as the security risks of peer-to-peer programs, which allow users to share files directly from their computers to other […]
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is investigating whether the claims in the patent infringement lawsuit brought by Eolas Technologies Inc. and the University of California could require changes to both the current and future HyperText Markup Language specifications, W3C officials said on Tuesday.Read the Full Story
A strategic effort to accelerate work force development in Africa with the goal of increasing Africa’s competitiveness in the global economy, AFTECH is designed and implemented by The Africa America Institute (AAl).Read the Full Story
The conventional notions about teaching-learning are being replaced very fast by new ideas and strategies, thanks to the revolutionary changes continuously taking place in the media and communication. Since the concept of education as investment is also steadily gaining ground, even the poorest countries are slowly turning their attention to the educational needs of their […]
It’s not homework – at least not in the traditional sense. It’s the entire course.Read the Full Story
LYNNFIELD, Mass, Sept. 22, 2003 – WebCT, maker of the world’s most flexible and widely used higher education e-learning solutions, today recognized a new group of WebCT-powered higher-education courses that are expanding the possibilities of Internet-enhanced learning.WebCT’s fourth annual 2003 Exemplary Course Project singled out six courses for excellence in the following award criteria: modeling […]
And Janet Poley, president and CEO of the American Distance Education Consortium, said the research being done in the Caribbean was just one example of the opportunities that arose through distance-education projects.Read the Full Story
Join presenters including: Wayne Hodgins, Director of Worldwide Learning Strategies at Autodesk and President and Founder of Learnativity.org; Ellen Wagner, Director of Higher Education Solutions Marketing at Macromedia; Peter Samis, Program Manager of Interactive Educational Technologies at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Michael Roy, Director of Academic Computing Services at Wesleyan University; and […]
Ambassador Bernard Kessedjian, Permanent Representative of France, was re-elected as Chairman of the WIPO General Assembly. Ms. Dorothy Angote, Registrar-General, Department of the Registrar-General, Attorney-General’s Chambers of Kenya and Mr. Wang Jingchuan, Commissioner, State Intellectual Property Office of China were elected as Vice Chairs. The WIPO Assemblies, which bring together the 179 member states of […]