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E-Learning for Developing Countries is Focus of MIT Workshop

In addition to senior MIT faculty and policy makers from USAID, the World Bank, corporations and foundations, the following countries will be represented: Algeria, Armenia, Canada, France, Hong Kong, Japan, India, Ireland, Iran, Israel, Kenya, Mexico, Niger, Pakistan, Russia, Syria and the United Arab Emirates. Professor Richard Larson, Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT and […]

Zoom In – The INDEPENDENT LENS Season Has Begun!

http://www.pbs.org/maggiegrowls “Speak your mind until your voice shakes” -Maggie Kuhn (1905-1995) ITVS and PBS’s INDEPENDENT LENS kicks off the season with MAGGIE GROWLS and its companion website, http://www.pbs.org/maggiegrowls. Learn more about senior activist and Gray Panther founder Maggie Kuhn, who started a movement that forever changed the treatment of America’s senior citizens. MAGGIE GROWLS, a […]

Influential analyst report names Plateau a leader in Learning management system (LMS) market

ARLINGTON, VA – February 4, 2003 – Plateau Systems, a provider of enterprise software that manages all of an organization’s learning and knowledge, announced today that is has been listed as an industry leader in the latest METASpectrum Learning Management Systems (LMS) Platform report released by META Group* (NASDAQ: METG), a leading information technology research […]

Cisco Sees No Upturn Soon for Technology Spending

The chief executive, John T. Chambers, said that corporate executives seem to be holding tighter to their purse strings and that geopolitical uncertainty has had a “dampening effect” on the economy. Read the Full Article

Web site lets visitors check whether schools are toeing line

The Denver-based Education Commission of the States has collected an exhaustive amount of information about the year-old federal law on its Web site. Read the Full Article

GeoLearning Named to Eduventures 100 List

Landmark analysis recognizes LMS vendor as a leader in the learning marketplace. WEST DES MOINES, IA, February 4, 2003 — GeoLearning, Inc., a leading developer of e-learning systems and Web-based training solutions, announced today that the company has been named to The Eduventures 100 list by Eduventures, Inc., the leading independent research firm exclusively focused […]

UCLA study highlights web’s importance in education

Educators familiar with the study say it also suggests the importance of teaching students how to critically evaluate the information they find online. Read the Full Article

On the Web, It’s Easy to Earn Straight A’s

Want a Harvard diploma? How about a University of Virginia transcript? Read the Full Article

Electronic Resources for Information Research Methods

The ‘imprint’, which would normally identify place of publication and publisher, identifies the location of the Web site on which the page has been found, and there is no assumption that the page has been officially approved. Visit the Site

New Web Will Enable Scientists to Share Data Across Disciplines

Billed as a new and improved version of today’s Web, the Semantic Web would foster greater productivity in science and engineering research, he said.Read the Full Article