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Win A Masterclass From The Open University Business School

n £2,000 for their company or organisation. The OUBS, Europe’s largest business school, is exhibiting at this year’s HRD (Human Resource Development) Conference Exhibition at Olympia, from 8-10 April 2003. The Masterclass, a one-day event for a group of up to 12 managers worth more than £2,000, can be held either at an organisation’s site, […]

Los Trabajadores/The Workers Web Site Launch

ITVS and PBS present the documentary Los Trabajadores/The Workers and the bilingual companion Web sites, www.pbs.org/theworkers and www.pbs.org/lostrabajadores. Focusing on the lives of Juan and Ramón, day laborers working in Austin, Texas, the film explores the myriad contradictions that haunt America’s dependence on and discrimination against immigrant labor. Los Trabajadores/The Workers by Heather Courtney airs […]

Exclusive Interview with Robert Mendenhall, President, Western Governors University

Distance-Educator.com: Let me first offer our congratulations to you for recent successes of the Western Governors University (WGU) in obtaining accreditation, and announcing a new teacher education initiative. I will ask specific questions regarding these developments as our interview continues. But, first let me ask you a general question about WGU. From its inception, the […]

Understanding Participation in Online Courses: A Case Study of Perceptions of Online Interaction

This study examined instructor and learner perceptions and attitudes toward interaction in online courses on “engaged learning with technology” delivered to K12 inservice teachers. Read the Full Article

ST. PAUL: Downtown charter school to open in fall

The Minnesota Academy of Technology will emphasize project-based learning, small class sizes and mentoring, along with a traditional high school education. Organizers say each student will have a wireless laptop. Read the Full Article

County college breaks ground for Distance Learning Center

President Kenneth Ender said the construction will start in a couple of weeks, will be finished in early fall and will be ready for community use in January 2004.Read the Full Article

Schools fill need for advanced science classes

More and more students at Southside High School realize the need to take challenging science courses for college majors. Students planning to major in the medical field often take physiology and genetics, science teacher Wes Lyon said. Read the Full Article

Students benefit from consortium classes

Students attending either Phillips or Prentice high schools are among those in the state who have an opportunity to take advanced placement classes offered by distance learning consortiums. Both schools also offer some advanced placement courses, which can earn both high school and college credits, taught by high school faculty members. Read the Full Article

ATCi Awarded $2.8 Million Teleport Contract for Largest Distance Learning Network in Latin America

PHOENIX, March 11 /PRNewswire/ — Antenna Technology Communications Inc., a provider of commercial satellite communications systems, today announced that it has been awarded a $2.8 million contract from the Mexican Ministry of Education, (Secretaria de Educacion Publica (SEP) for Direccion General de Television Educativa), to install the largest distance learning network in Latin America. Read […]

Envoy Inaugurates French Online Distance Learning Programme

It is the outcome of three years of hard work by teachers of the French Culture Center Islamabad, computer specialists and graphic designers under the aegis of the cultural section of the Embassy of France. Read the Full Article