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- Distance Learning
- Obtaining education and training from a remote teaching site via TV, the Internet or private education network. Distance learning actually dates back hundreds of years, but not by electronic...
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- Design of a Real-Time Remote-Access Engineering Laboratory Using Integrated Web Service and Wireless Technology for Distance Learners
- Web-based distance education has enabled university programmes to increase diversity within the student body by allowing non-traditional students and satellite campuses the ability to access a standard college education. However, for engineering distance education, students only have limited access to laboratory equipment to gain hands-on experiences. In this paper, the...
- Tags: Distance Education, Distance Learning, Web, Wireless Technology, Student, Web Service, Western Carolina University, Wireless, E-learning, Training And Certification, Transportation, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2007-06-04
- EURIDICE (widget)
- EURIDICE European Recommended Materials for Distance Learning Courses for Educators is a search engine in the cultural picture archives network coordinated by the Polish National Archives and technically lead by the Italian F.lli Alinari IDEA Photographic Archives. This engine provides its multilingual contents (IT, EN, DE, FR, SP, PL) to...
- Tags: Distance Learning, E-learning, Search, Enterprise Software, Software
- Software downloads 2007-04-23
- Distance Learning Brings the Zoo to You: Students Receive Live Interactive Zoo Experience
- Students learn about animals in a very personal way from the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo distance learning program, using wireless technology, provided by Cisco partner Total Systems Integration, Inc.
- Tags: Distance Learning, Cisco Systems Inc., E-learning, Enterprise Software, Software
- Webcasts 2007-04-04
- Virtual Laboratory Intrusion Detection Experience for Information Systems Professionals
- This paper describes how to design and implement an intrusion detection module that may be implemented in various courses taught in an information system curriculum and covers the industry-standard Snort Open Source Intrusion Detection System IDS. This paper proposes that virtualization offers three significant instructional advantages in delivering a rich...
- Tags: Distance Learning, Information System, Intrusion Detection System, Server, Intrusion Detection, Network Security, E-learning, Security, Strategy, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Management
- White papers 2006-11-06
- GIS Teaching Via Distance Learning Experiences and Lessons Learned
- This paper draws on seven-years' experience of postgraduate teaching GIS via distance learning mode. Experience has shown that in setting-up, maintaining and developing the GIS course via distance learning, particular consideration has to be given towards the cultural and geographical diversity of students. Moreover, the dynamic nature of GIS and...
- Tags: Distance Learning, GIS, E-learning, Software, Enterprise Software
- White papers 2005-06-01
- The Effects of Distance Education on K-12 Student Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis
- The community of K-12 education has seen explosive growth over the last decade in distance learning programs, defined as learning experiences in which students and instructors are separated by space and/or time. While elementary and secondary students have learned through the use of electronic distance learning systems since the 1930s,...
- Tags: K-12, Distance Education, Distance Learning, E-learning, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2004-10-01
- Thirty-Two Trends Affecting Distance Education: An Informed Foundation for Strategic Planning
- Recent issues in this journal and other prominent distance-learning journals have established the need for administrators to be informed and prepared with strategic plans equal to foreseeable challenges. This paper provides decision makers with 32 trends that affect distance learning and thus enable them to plan accordingly. The trends are...
- Tags: Trend, Distance Education, Distance Learning, Strategic Planning, University Of West Georgia, E-learning, Enterprise Software, Software
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- A Framework for Design and Evaluation of Internet-Based Distance Learning Courses Phase One - Framework Justification, Design and Evaluation
- The purpose of this paper is to propose a framework for the development and evaluation of online distance learning courses, based on integrating an adaptation of Tyler's principles within the levels of cognitive learning in Bloom's Taxonomy. The methodologies for delivery of course materials and evaluation of outcomes specific to...
- Tags: Distance Learning, Internet, Evaluation, E-learning, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Distance Learning: Promises, Problems, and Possibilities
- Distance learning and its relationship to emerging computer technologies have together offered many promises to the field of education. In practice however, the combination often falls short of what it attempts to accomplish. Some of the shortcomings are due to problems with the technology; others have more to do with...
- Tags: Distance Learning, University Of West Georgia, E-learning, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Six Factors to Consider When Planning Online Distance Learning Programs in Higher Education
- The Internet and the World Wide Web WWW have made the process of obtaining an education without regard to time or location easier for the student. At the same time, they have provided more challenges for the colleges providing this education. In online distance learning, not only does the instruction...
- Tags: Education, Distance Learning, University Of West Georgia, E-learning, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Southwest Telecommunications Cooperative Boosts Productivity With WebInteractive and WebDemo
- Southwest Telecommunications Cooperative's staff is required to provide payroll, finance, network and technical support, maintenance of ITV connections, studios and switching centers to its cooperative members, which covers 21 counties and over 14,000 square miles. The significant amount of time spent on travel and administrative projects, made it next to...
- Tags: Distance Learning, Server Software, Inter-Tel Inc., Telecommunications, E-learning, Telephony, Productivity, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Networking, Hardware
- Case studies
- Delivering Continuing Professional Development Using Online Distance Learning
- This case study reflects on the use of a virtual learning environment VLE over a four year period to deliver an online, distance learning, Postgraduate Diploma in Law Common Professional Examination programme to both full time and part time students at the University of Huddersfield. Students attend for a 5-6...
- Tags: Distance Learning, Professional Development, E-learning, Enterprise Software, Software
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- JNT Association Case Study: The Royal National College for the Blind, Hereford
- The Royal National College for the Blind was invited to join the pilot project to connect specialist colleges to JANET, the UK's education and research network. The JANET link now caters for 212 learners across a wide range of ages, including 12 distance learning students. The RNC's mission is to...
- Tags: Distance Learning, College, RNC, E-learning, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Why One Distance Learning Company Has Fully Embraced its Web Conferencing Platform
- Download this case study to find out why distance learning pioneer ULiveandLearn selected Macromedia® Breeze™ Live for its Web conferencing platform. The paper details how the virtual education company used Breeze to produce an extremely complex, eight-hour Web seminar for WHYY-TV in Philadelphia and the Hospice Foundation of America. Find...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Distance Learning, Web, Philadelphia, Macromedia Breeze Live, Web Conferencing, E-learning, Channel Management, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing
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- Industry-Leading Commercial Builder Cuts Annual Costs by U.S. $1.5 Million
- Gilbane Building Company uses communication and collaboration technologies to complete massive construction projects on time, reduce costs, and boost customer loyalty. A Microsoft-based portal cuts the time it takes to complete bids by 75 percent. The company has slashed the total time it takes to complete projects by 10 to...
- Tags: Distance Learning, Collaboration, Industry, Gilbane, Microsoft Corp., Portals, E-learning, Web Technology, Groupware, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Industry-Leading Commercial Builder Cuts Annual Costs by U.S.$1.5 Million
- Gilbane Building Company uses communication and collaboration technologies to complete massive construction projects on time, reduce costs, and boost customer loyalty. A Microsoft-based portal cuts the time it takes to complete bids by 75 percent. The company has slashed the total time it takes to complete projects by 10 to...
- Tags: Distance Learning, Collaboration, Industry, Gilbane, Microsoft Corp., Portals, E-learning, Web Technology, Groupware, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software
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Additional Resources
- Has technology evolved our language beyond recognition?
- You pick up your Blackberry in the morning because your notebook has a virus. You connect to your cloud storage and retrieve a few documents to store on your drive, and grab yourself a cup of Java. I get emails every day, mostly ordinary commentary from like-minded...
- Tags: Legend, RIM BlackBerry, Virus, Computer, Internet, E-mail, Productivity, Cyberthreats, Notebooks, Handhelds, Online Communications, Security, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- IT expert executed in Iran
- Following Pakistan's recently introduced "Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance 2008" according to which potential cyberterrorists would face the death penalty, a neighboring country, Iran, has recently executed an IT expert who confessed of being an Israeli spy for at least three years. After being recruited by Mossad during a business...
- Tags: Information Technology, Equipment, Iran, Government, Productivity, Real Estate, E-mail, Business Operations, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Apple: Mac users should run multiple anti-virus
- One of Apple's better Mac vs PC ads features a strong message that Windows computers are a magnet for viruses malware but Macs are automatically protected. As PC "ah-choos" his way through an infection, Mac offers a tissue and smugly infers that he's immune to the...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Antivirus, Malware, Apple Inc., Virus, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Desktops, Hardware, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Using TREES to save the forest
- Lots of green building news bouncing around in the past few weeks, which simultaneously disheartening and heartening because of the state of the real estate market. The biggest deal, perhaps, is the fact that the U.S. Green Building Council is updating its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design guidelines. (Here's...
- Tags: Software, Power Consumption, TREES, Tools & Techniques, Real Estate, Management, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
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