University of Alberta: eLearning: From Grass Roots to Mission-Critical
Students responded positively—even seeking out particular instructors or courses that featured online components. Read the Full Article
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New Web-Based Training Program Launched for Supply Management Professionals
The program, offered through NAPM Silicon Valley’s trademarked web site, Supply Knowledge™ (http://www.supplyknowledge.com/), will provide a wide array of self-directed programs leading to professional certification in several fundamental areas. Read the Full Article
Some Colleges Add Ads to Their Web Sites
While advertisements appear on most commercial Internet sites, colleges have kept their Web sites free of ads. A few institutions, however, are experimenting to see if they can display some commercial logos and advertisements on their Web sites without annoying students and professors.Read the Full Article
Administrators ‘AIM’ to communicate better
Years ago, AOL Instant Messenger revolutionized communication and procrastination for students across the nation. But now, even administrators working from within Yale’s gothic towers are beginning to recognize the technology’s convenience. Read the Full Article
Carnegie Mellon Researchers Create New Digital Tools to Help Business Leaders Improve Performance
Many factors, from the need to expand beyond national borders to the inexorable shift to intellectual capital, are driving change, but none is more important than the rise of the Internet and digital technologies. Like the steam engine or the assembly line, the Net and digital technologies have already become an advance with revolutionary consequences, […]
Virus pushes schools to go virtual Threat of SARS forces teachers to conduct classes online using Bay Area technologies
San Francisco’s Macromedia Inc. and First Virtual Communications Inc. of Santa Clara have helped thousands of those students keep up with their studies via virtual classrooms conducted over the Internet. Read the Full Article
Networking Is Key To Spreading E-Business In Europe
That’s the conclusion reached by all speakers at a lecture held by the Open University Business School, Europe’s largest business school, on April 8 in Brussels. The lecture, e-business in e-Europe: is small beautiful? was attended by a mix of more than 50 practitioners, guests, OUBS MBA alumni and students. The panel of speakers also […]
New Degree Expands Open University Computing Programme
The BSc (Hons) in Computing is at the heart of an overhauled suite of computing courses that will completely renew core courses and introduce seven new courses over the next three years. The introduction of the new courses will be a timely one. As the importance of continuing professional development strengthens across the sector, students […]
E-gov graduate leads the way
Judith Oxman, chief of network services and operations contracting at the Defense Information Systems Agency, finished the eight required courses and received her certification April 11.Read the Full Article
eCollege Announces Record Revenue of $6.7 Million; Net Loss of $.02 Per Share
DENVER – April 17, 2003 – eCollege(SM) [Nasdaq: ECLG], a leading provider of technology and services for online higher education programs, today announced record revenue of $6.7 million for the first quarter ending March 31, 2003, an increase of 20 percent from $5.6 million for the first quarter of 2002. Revenue from student fees increased […]