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ED: Cyber schools key for NCLB remedies

The final rules—which are more stringent than expected—say school districts must offer transferability options to students from failing schools, regardless of issues such as overcrowding or class-size limits. Read the Full Article

Online-Lab Software Simulates Chemical Interactions — and Explosions

The students work with computer software that simulates what would happen if, for instance, two dangerous chemicals were mixed together, or the power of a laser beam were amplified. The software, called Virtual ChemLab, was developed by Brian F. Woodfield, an assistant professor of chemistry. Read the Full Article

Online learning isn’t for slackers … Learning academy provides rigorous classes

To do so, the 17-year-old junior needed just one extra class on top of her full semester. Read the Full Article

New on-line course critique goes live today

Students accessing of their online grades will first be asked to fill out an evaluation of the course. However, following a YCC proposal, there will be an option allowing students who do not wish to participate to skip over the evaluation portion, preventing students from writing rushed evaluations, according to former YCC representative Evan LePatner, […]

National Geographic Image Colleciton

We [National Geographic] are proud to bring you the convenience of online searching and downloading images of “the world and all that is in it.” Visit the Site

Reliant Pharmaceuticals Accelerates Enterprise-wide Communications; Improves Productivity with Centra’s Live Web Collaboration Applications

LEXINGTON, Mass. (December 10, 2002) – Centra (NASDAQ: CTRA), the leading provider of software and services for real-time communication and collaboration, today announced that Reliant Pharmaceuticals, LLC, an emerging specialty pharmaceutical company, has successfully deployed Centra’s Web collaboration application to address enterprise communications needs across the organization. Delivered conveniently through Centra’s ASP service, Reliant Pharmaceuticals […]

Plateau Systems and quickCompliance partner to offer complete hipaa training solution for the enterprise

Under the agreement, Plateau and QuickCompliance will combine customized HIPAA training content with an enterprise software platform that schedules, tracks, and delivers all Web-based and classroom HIPAA training. Under the HIPAA regulation signed into law by Congress in August 1996, all organizations that handle protected health information (PHI), from insurance companies to healthcare providers, must […]

TV Acres Covers the Cultural Landscape Of Our Time

If there is a cozy communal campfire for the people of the Information Age, it’s got to be our television sets. Even in a time when our society is ever-more fragmented and segmented, TV continues to be the something that we have in common. Love it or hate it, praise it or ridicule it, television […]

Determining Costs And Benefits Of An Online Graduate Program In Healthcare Education: Preliminary Findings

ABSTRACT The Master of Health Professions Education degree offered by the University of Illinois’ College of Medicine recently added an online track to its traditional in class format. The objective is to make the course available to healthcare professionals who might not be able to attend classes at the University. An analysis of enrollments and […]

GSA tool to collect workforce data

GSA’s workforce was cut in half by the early 1990s, and with more agencies using FSS schedules, that smaller group of acquisition professionals has an ever-increasing amount of work to do. Read the Full Article