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Thomson Develops Banking Industry’s Most Comprehensive Online Training Program To Support New Regulations

The Thomson Corporation (TSX: TOC; NYSE: TOC), the world’s largest provider of corporate and professional learning solutions, today announced the launch of a comprehensive training solution aimed at helping the banking industry meet emerging compliance challenges. Combining highly interactive e-Learning solutions from NETg with content expertise from Sheshunoff, Thomson has developed compliance-driven anti-money laundering and […]

The League of Nations Photo Archive

In 1957, the Archives of the League of Nations was created. The Archives includes official records as well as portraits, paintings, caricatures, original artworks and unique objects d’art. In June of 2000, Jian Liu, Kris Bell, and Robert Goehlert went to the League of Nations Archives for two weeks to start a digital library project […]

INDEPENDENT LENS Unravels Courage and Friendship Forged Between Women of the French Resistance

ITVS and PBS present Maia Wechsler’s SISTERS IN RESISTANCE and companion Web site at www.pbs.org/sistersinresistance. SISTERS IN RESISTANCE chronicles the heroism and lifelong friendships of four young non-Jewish women who were imprisoned in concentration camps during World War II for their resistance to the Nazi occupation of France. SISTERS IN RESISTANCE airs on INDEPENDENT LENS […]

“Drop Me Off in Harlem”

Students can hear Langston Hughes read his poems, listen to Duke Ellington direct his orchestra, or watch “Shorty” George Snowden dance the Lindy Hop. An interactive map displays important cultural, social, & political establishments. Lesson ideas & learning activities facilitate an arts-integrated approach to the study of key works & themes that emerged. (KC) Access […]

Benchmarks of Web-Based Instruction: A Comparative Study of Student and Instructor Expectations

Developed by the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), “Quality on the Line: Benchmarks for Success in Internet-Based Distance Education” is a comprehensive report that identifies 45 quality benchmarks of effectiveness for distance learning in higher education. The document reports ratings for each benchmark based on a survey of instructors, administrators and students at several […]

Web tool helps determine how and what students learn

Anyone who has ever sat through a freshman survey course knows the sinking feeling of anonymity that often comes with being just one among hundreds in a large lecture course — wondering if the professor even knows who you are, let alone how well you are grappling with the course materials. Read the Full Article

E-portfolios: more than just résumés

But the experience also made Arias, along with the other 60 WISP interns this year, part of a pilot project introducing a new online learning portfolio, or “e-portfolio,” to students and faculty members at Dartmouth.Read the Full Article

New account connects the world to University services

Already boasting more than 110,000 users, the FPS account management system has been designed by Information Technology Services (ITS) to enable the development of Web-based information resources to serve individuals outside the University in a more efficient, streamlined way.Read the Full Article

A Web Site Helps Clarify the Facets and Effects of Globalization

So to the uninitiated, globalization can seem like an almost impenetrable topic, according to Nayan Chanda, director of publications at Yale University’s Center for the Study of Globalization.Read the Full Article

High Score Education

The US spends almost $50 billion each year on education, so why aren’t kids learning? Forty percent of students lack basic reading skills, and their academic performance is dismal compared with that of their foreign counterparts.Read the Full Article