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Click2learn Raises $12.1 Million in Private Placement

The investment was made at a price of $1.668 per share and resulted in the issuance of 7,460,644 shares of Click2learn common stock. The transaction also included the purchase of warrants to purchase up to 2,611,221 additional shares at an exercise price of $1.90 per share on certain terms and conditions, which were issued at […]

Implementation Issues of SCORM

Supporting Collaborative Learning Activities with SCORM This paper investigates the data elements required to fully and flexibly support a broad range of collaborative learning activities and proposes extensions to the SCORM data model to enable support for collaborative learning designs within SCORM. The analysis is partly based on a range of well established collaborative learning […]

Supreme Court Upholds Internet Filters

The court, in a 6-3 decision, ruled that the Children’s Internet Protection Act does not violate the First Amendment.Read the Full Article

U.S. Navy’s Center For Naval Leadership Employs

Through interactive resources available on the portal Navy Knowledge Online (NKO), CNL offers Sailors of every rank, both active and reserve, the opportunity to identify and strengthen the leadership skills that they must possess to ensure the Navy’s continuing success. As part of its mission to offer Sailors a “just in time, just enough, just […]

States vie for $4.2M to measure technology’s impact on learning

This new initiative, called the Evaluating State Education Technology Program, provides funding for states to plan and conduct experimental or quasi-experimental evaluations of a state-selected educational technology initiative. Plus, it provides funding to disseminate the evaluation methods, practices, analyses, and instruments used so other states can learn from and replicate the evaluations. Read the Full […]

Human-Computer Interaction: A Review of the Research on its Affective and Social Aspects

The advent of computers in schools should prompt educational researchers to scrutinize the affective and social aspects of student-computer interactions since they play an important role in learning. A review of 34 qualitative and non-qualitative studies was conducted. Its main purpose is to synthesize results and to highlight important issues that research has left unsolved. […]

New online portfolios available for students, teachers and residents through Minnesota State Colleges and Universities

The new eFolio Minnesota, at www.efoliominnesota.com, is the nation’s first statewide electronic portfolio system. “Now eFolio Minnesota will help you go beyond the traditional paper résumé and easily build a Web page that demonstrates your accomplishments using photos, video, audio and graphics,” said Linda Baer, senior vice chancellor for academic and student affairs for the […]

Schools offer online facilities programs

“It’s usually the kind of position where you’re doing all the jobs that nobody else wants to do,” jokes Cheryl Johnson, a facilities manager for a satellite campus of Arizona State University. Read the Full Article

Delta’s home-schooling boom

Not long ago, San Joaquin Delta College students had to check and recheck their schedules, fight for optimal parking spaces and hurry across the 165-acre campus for most college classes. Read the Full Article

Value of cyber learning a mystery

WARNER ROBINS – Five years ago, there were fewer than 1,000 computers in the Houston County school system.Read the Full Article