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In its two years of operation, the venture featured material from a dozen prominent institutions and attracted widespread media attention, but it was never profitable. Read the Full Article
If you can shop online for cars with the features you want at prices you can afford, why not shop for colleges the same way? Read the Full Article
Eleven Capitol College students already interned at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center last semester, and the space agency is giving the college $300,000 a year for the next three years to hire a coordinator and get the program underway. Read the Full Article
Gartner predicts that 50 per cent of LMS providers would disappear in the next year. Read the Full Article
The popular press and trade journals have featured discussions about how this technology will transform education, but we have yet to see changes on a mass scale in our approach to teaching and learning. Read the Full Article
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 7 — Apple Computer Inc. chief executive Steve Jobs opened the Macworld Expo convention here with a two-hour keynote speech that was both a product launch and a mission statement that Mac still matters. Read the Full Article
LYNNFIELD, MA — (INTERNET WIRE) — 01/06/2003 — Drexel University, Philadelphia’s technological leader, has selected WebCT Vista as its 21st-century e-learning environment, WebCT announced today. WebCT Vista will let Drexel easily support its own academic enterprise as well as 6,500 students at three independent liberal arts colleges in Philadelphia. Drexel, one of Yahoo! Internet Life […]
Click2learn is actively engaged in defining and adopting standards such as SCORM that will enable higher levels of efficiency in e-learning development, tracking and management. SCORM mastery and compliance enables organizations to realize greater flexibility and productivity from their corporate information systems, including human resource information systems (HRIS), customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource […]
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Lightspan, Inc. (Nasdaq: LSPN), announced today that it will provide online assessments to 40 Duval County Public Schools in Jacksonville, Florida. The focus will be on providing educators with time-sensitive data on student performance to assist in targeting instruction according to where it is needed most. Lightspan is a […]
NASHUA, N.H., Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — SkillSoft PLC (Nasdaq: SKIL), a leading provider of e-learning courseware and referenceware for business and IT professionals, today announced that its development team had completed integration of Books24x7 Referenceware (SM) content, which includes more than 3,000 unabridged IT and business books and reports, with the MySmartForce e-learning platform. With […]