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Citrix Teams With Accenture on eLearning Program for Citrix Customers and Channel Partners

Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS), the global leader in access infrastructure solutions, today announced an eLearning outsourcing relationship with Accenture, the world’s leading management consulting and technology services company. Under this agreement, Citrix will offer customers as well as more than 6,000 channel partners and its more than 300 Citrix Authorized Learning Centers(TM) (CALCs) access to […]

The Next Generation Internet: Features, Opportunities, and Challenges

Keynotes include the Honorable John L. Osterholz, DoD’s Director of Architecture and Interoperability, Dr. Larry Smarr, Founder of the SuperComputer Center, and Dr. Ian Foster, Former Chairman of the Global Grid Forum. Visit the Conference Site

FCC Sets Limits On Media Concentration

Washington, D.C. – The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today adopted new broadcast ownership rules that are enforceable, based on empirical evidence and reflective of the current media marketplace. Today’s action represents the most comprehensive review of media ownership regulation in the agency’s history, spanning 20 months and encompassing a public record of more than 520,000 […]

Forum addresses virtual schooling myths

The forum, called “Exploring Virtual Schools,” was the first in a series of events to be hosted by ED’s newly created Offic of Innovation and Improvement, which oversees 25 discretionary grant programs and aims to help school administrators identify innovative strategies and overcome barriers to accomplishing the goals of the No Child Left Behind Act […]

UKeU launches online learning for ME students

UKeU also signed partnership agreements with four organisations – Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT)/Centre of Excellence for Applied Research and Training (CERT) and Stafford Associates in the UAE; Edutech Middle East for Saudi Arabia; and Syrian Virtual University (SVU) for Syria and Lebanon – all of which will have a presence in Dubai’s Knowledge Village. […]

“Postcards From Buster” Will Arrive Fall 2004 On PBS Kids

Arthur’s best friend, Buster, will soon be hitting the road in his own television show! WGBH Boston, Marc Brown Studios, and CINAR Corporation have begun pre-production on POSTCARDS FROM BUSTER, a new half-hour ARTHUR spin-off series that will blend animation and live-action footage. POSTCARDS FROM BUSTER will premiere as part of the PBS KIDS weekday […]

New centre, online course to aid local learning disabled

Dr. Allyson Harrison, a Queen’s University professor, has secured about $1 million in provincial funding to create a low cost assessment centre and an online post-secondary preparatory course for students with LDs. Read the Full Article

Miami-Dade Community College to Partner in Groundbreaking Educational Technology Conference

Miami-Dade Community College is pleased to announce Virtual Educa 2003, an international conference on education, training and new technologies. Read the Full Article

Web Essay

There are lots of ideas and even a fair amount of novelty about such broad trends as knowledge management, powered performance learning, and human capital management, but thinking about what’s “great” changes the terms significantly.Read the Full Article

The Web Can Be Tangled for Parents With Questions

Zyg Furmaniuk, a software consultant from Belmont, Mass., who has two school-age daughters, recalled the difficulty he had a few years ago finding reliable information to help one of them, Bacall, now 11, who was having trouble reading. Read the Full Article