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Technology Brings Together Navy Personnel From Around the Country in First Virtual Commencement

Connecting the university’s “TELETECHNET” and the Navy’s “USN-USMC VTT” distance learning networks with two-way audio and video broadcast via satellite, Old Dominion President Roseann Runte will confer degrees upon 10 Navy officers present in the university’s television studio and 14 other officers located from San Diego and Kings Bay, Ga., to Bangor, Wash., Newport, R.I., […]

What can you tell from a face?

The site asks whether, at the end of dinner, this anonymous person would: Read the Full Article

eSN Exclusive: IBM in crosshairs as SLD targets eRate infractions

SLD spokesman Mel Blackwell confirmed for eSchool News that the service provider in question is IBM Corp. IBM is listed on applications requesting more than $1 billion in 2002 eRate funding, according to eRate consulting firm Funds for Learning LLC, but Blackwell said it’s unclear at this point how many of these applications will be […]

Poor Countries Pay Heavy Price for Growing “Knowledge Gap”

Investing in quality tertiary education, the reports says, can help to close this gap. Read the Full Article

PRIMEDIA Workplace Learning & Corpedia Partner for Best-in-Breed Web-based Training

NEW YORK, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ — PRIMEDIA Workplace Learning, the leading provider of blended learning solutions, and Phoenix-based Corpedia, an award-winning eLearning provider, have teamed to offer best in breed web-based training for soft skills spanning executive and business management, sales and marketing, project management, legal compliance, and other disciplines. Read the Full Article

DigitalThink Leads Industry Adoption of E-Learning Standards

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — DigitalThink, Inc. (Nasdaq: DTHK), the leader in custom e-learning for Fortune 1000 companies, announced further commitment to embrace and provide leadership for e-learning standards. Today, at Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Plugfest 7 taking place at the Orange Convention Center in Orlando, Florida, the company is demonstrating instant deployment and […]

Gov Online Learning center selects plateau systems to join federal e-TRAINING initiative

Under the multiyear, multimillion-dollar contract, Plateau 4 LMS will provide one of the software infrastructures for the U.S. federal government’s main employee training site. Managed by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in partnership with the Department of Transportation and other federal agencies, the Gov Online Learning Center (GOLC) provides one-stop access to e-Learning […]

Serebra Selected by Pakistan’s Virtual University as eLearning Prime

The Pakistan market is clearly huge; however, people are disillusioned by the insufficiency of existing IT courses in finding them suitable jobs, or in enabling them to continue higher studies abroad. Read the Full Article

Open University Powers Educational Software Library

The Reusable Educational Software Library (RESL) database gives access to shared case studies, reports, software and other resources. The site, which can be accessed at http://www.resl.ac.uk, is powered by the Open University’s Knowledge Network, a web-based system for exploring, sharing and building knowledge and experience of teaching and learning. The university’s RESL team hopes that […]

Judge: District violated rights of web-posting student

The Waterford School District should not have suspended the student in August 2001 for contributing to “Satan’s web page,” U.S. District Judge Patrick Duggan ruled last week. Read the Full Article