university degree courses over the internet was today condemned as a “disgraceful waste” of public money after it attracted just 900 students at a cost of £50 million
Archives for March 2005
Public Schools March into E-Learning
Glastonbury School Districtââ¬â¢s Foreign Language Department today announced its plan to develop and launch a suite of online courses using the ScribeStudio.com online platform from Distance Learning, Inc. (DLI) in partnership with SANS Inc. (Software and Network Solutions). Glastonbury, a long time user of SANSââ¬â¢ instructional based language learning systems, will pilot test online courseware development in Spanish, French, and Russian. The courseware will be made available for use by students district-wide. “The language teaching profession has always been progressive in its use of technology,ââ¬Â said Glastonbury School District Foreign Language Director Christy Brown, ââ¬Å”and Glastonbury has long been recognized as one of the leaders within the language learning market.
Insourcing: Reversing the Outsourcing Tide
Upon finishing their outsourcing of labor-intensive jobs, US corporations soon began outsourcing white-collar jobs too. Today, overseas labor handles all sorts of communication and computing development and services, even examining X-rays for American patients. And now that very same Internet might reverse the outsourcing trend. Take the world of e-Learning and training as an example.
The Semantic Aspects of e-Learning: Using the Knowledge Life Cycle to Manage Semantics for Grid and Service Oriented Systems
The aim of bringing semantics to learning content and services is to enable large scale collaboration of e-learning activities over the Grid infrastructure. As machines and software applications will be ubiquitously involved in enabling and facilitating this collaboration, it requires a common understanding of the domain, in particular at the conceptual level, so that both computers and human participants of the e-learning activities understand and are able to communicate among themselves though a common conceptualisation of the learning domain. In this paper we propose that Ontology is required in this context which is shared as a language to enrich resources with semantics. In line with the pedagogical view of the semantics obtained from experts in the learning domain, we describe a semantics driven knowledge life cycle to address the key phases in managing semantics in e-learning. Service oriented architecture is adopted for the vision of Grid infrastructure, reusable components and easy integration at a later phase.
CPP Launches Three-Pronged Professional Services Organization
CPP, Inc., today announced the launch of its new Professional Services Organization. CPP Professional Services offers a full range of training, research, and technology services that make it easy for any organization to employ CPP’s well-known assessments and related applications as part of a comprehensive training and organization development program.