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Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center Selects Plateau To Manage Learning And Comply With Federal Regulations

Based in Houston, Texas, Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center provides over 200,000 units of blood each year to more than 200 hospitals and healthcare facilities in 24 counties in Southeast Texas. The Blood Center will implement Plateau 4 LMS at its Houston headquarters and 13 branches. With Plateau 4 LMS, Gulf Coast employees will log […]

Lightspan, Inc. and WestEd Enter Agreement to Provide Assessment Series Aligned to California Standards

Upon completion of this work, Lightspan will be able to provide California educators with assessment tools to pinpoint each student’s strengths and needs measured against the California state standards. This validated assessment instrument will allow California teachers to focus instructional resources and time where it will most benefit each learner. WestEd CEO Dr. Glen Harvey […]

Excerpts from The prepared text of the State of the Commonwealth address by Gov. Paul Patton

Having had less time to produce results than KERA, our efforts are nonetheless receiving similar national acclaim and have produced stunning results. Among them are: enrollment in our public colleges and universities is up 20%; 46% in our Community and Technical Colleges. Bucks for Brains has increased our endowed faculty by 400 percent and has […]

Bernard Osher Foundation Awards $100,000 Grant to CSUH to Establish Osher Lifelong Learning Institute

The grant, renewable by the foundation to CSUH for two additional years at $100,000 per year, will fund the OLLI program to provide educational courses to persons 50 and older. It will help fund the Contra Costa Campus’ SCHOLAR program lecture series, which has been offered to older adults since 2000. The Osher Lifelong Learning […]

Penn State receives national awards for online education

Of the five major awards presented at the Eighth Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks: “The Power of Online Learning: The Faculty Experience,” Penn State garnered an Award for Excellence in Online Faculty Satisfaction for the UniSCOPE (University Scholarship and Criteria for Outreach and Performance Evaluation) project and an Award for Excellence […]

San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District Puts Learning Online with Help from Pathlore

learning-management systems (LMS), announced that the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) has selected the Ohio software developer’s LMS to deliver, track, and report on corporate training for up to 3,500 BART employees. Read the Full Article

Two Real Estate Educational Powerhouses Partner for Growth

Branded under Dearborn Education, the content will be distributed through classrooms and distance learning programs nationwide. Read the Full Article

E-Rate in ‘financial disarray’

E-Rate in ‘financial disarray’ Read the Full Article Schools’ Internet Subsidies Are Called Fraud-Riddled Read the Full Article eRate bust signals crackdown Read the Full Article E-Rate lets down local, state recipients Read the Full Article

Cal Poly Information Portal Recognized for ‘Setting the Pace’ by Tech Magazine

The publication, a journal for the information technology industry, chose Cal Poly to receive its “Best Practice Award” for the portal – one of only four “Best Practice” awards published by the magazine in 2002. In an article in the January 2003 edition, KM World outlines and praises Cal Poly’s 18-month development and launch of […]

DeVry University to Expand Online Degree Program Offerings

OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill., Jan. 9 /CNW/ — DeVry University NYSE: DV) announced it has received approval from The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association to expand the number of degree programs offered online. Read the Full Article