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Jul 08
Education, Online Education communication tools, diagnostic tool, distance learning, Georgia, Georgia United States, online courses, online learning, Online Student Readiness Report, prior online course experience, prior online courses, readiness tool
The 2009 Online Student Readiness Report (OSRR) has been released and is now available. The report was officially released at the recent DLA conference in St. Simons Island, Georgia. Presented by eLearningToolBox.com, OSRR makes observations from data taken from 150,065 unique students from 272 higher education institutions who took the READI assessment from June 1, [...]
Jun 27
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U.S. News Media Group announced the launch of U.S. News University Directory, an online portal focused entirely on higher education and professional and continuing education opportunities.
Complementing the U.S. News rankings, the long-preferred tool for the assessment of excellence in higher education, the University Directory helps potential college-bound students and working adults further invest in [...]
Feb 14
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Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Higher Education Interlibrary Loan Management Benchmarks” report to their offering.
This special report examines closely the management and productivity practices of more than 85 academic libraries in the United States and Canada; the data focuses particularly on productivity and staff measurement and the impact of new technologies.
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Dec 04
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Frontier Communications Corporation, the nation’s second largest rural local communications company, announced a marketing partnership with Penn Foster, Inc., a global leader in distance education. The parties’ collaborative arrangement offers Penn Foster students and alumni throughout the U.S. discounted pricing on Frontier’s innovative Peace of Mind services. Peace of Mind includes automatic hard drive [...]
Nov 19
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The Richard W. Riley College of Education and Leadership at Walden University, one of the nation’s largest providers of graduate degrees to P-12 teachers, announced the recipients of the university’s 2008 Educator for a Day Grants.
Walden awarded $5,000 grants to three schools hosting Educator for a Day events to foster awareness of the need [...]
Nov 17
Education California, distance learning, education services, even district-wide online discussions, file sharing, Internet location, Keith Wright, Kelly Agrelius, Networld Solutions Inc., online storage, Ramona Unified School District, San Diego, San Diego County, School Web Lockers, storage area networks, storage products, United States, web locker, web lockers, web-based collaboration, web-based storage, web-based tools
Whether economic times are good or bad, most rural K-12 schools lack the funds and resources to build a state-of-the-art datacenter. Yet, even with the use of more complex video, graphics and data files on the rise, rural schools today have found a way to meet their growing data requirements by turning to cost-effective “web [...]
Nov 17
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Tegrity, provider of the leading class capture web service for higher education, announced that Tegrity client Hodges University reported a 250 percent increase in online enrollment following its adoption of the Tegrity Campus 2.0 service. Rapid campus-wide adoption of Tegrity by faculty and students is also attributed to increased retention rates, academic achievement and improved [...]
Nov 17
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One of the most pressing tasks confronting the new Obama administration is rebuilding and redirecting the nation’s intelligence system. From closing Guantanamo Bay to ending the abusive treatment of terrorist detainees to halting warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens, Obama has promised major and rapid changes in the way our intelligence community does business. He has [...]
Nov 15
Book Reviews approximation algorithms, California, constrained clustering algorithms, Google Inc, Mountain View, Peter Norvig, the Foreword, United States
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From the Foreword
… this book shows how constrained clustering can be used to tackle large problems involving textual, relational, and even video data. After reading this book, you will have the tools to be a better analyst [and] to gain more insight from your data, whether it be textual, audio, video, relational, genomic, or anything [...]
Nov 14
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Sonic Foundry, Inc., the recognized market leader for rich media webcasting and knowledge management, announced that the company’s Event Services (http://www.sonicfoundry.com/eventservices) group webcasted the 14th Annual Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning last week in Orlando, Florida. The conference provided the latest information on asynchronous learning programs for experienced professionals and interested newcomers to [...]
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