a course of study that involves minimal or no attendance at an academic institution, but relies instead on personal study, using books, audiovisual materials, and...
Classroom recording appliance deployed at School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences to increase quality of distance learning, boost student retention
Riverstone Networks Inc. announced that it is helping China further its educational reform program with the deployment of a provincewide distance learning network. In the first phase of construction, Anhui, a province in southeastern China, will depl Riverstone Networks Inc. announced that it is helping China...
For most engineering students, distance learning entails working on class assignments when they get home from the office. For Marshall Groves, learning covered the distance between Iraq and Atlanta, Ga. For most engineering students, distance learning entails working on class assignments when they get...
CLEVELAND & WALTHAM, Mass. -- Cleveland Clinic, one of the largest and most respected nonprofit multi-specialty academic medical centers in the country, and StarBak Communications, the leading provider of integrated network video solutions, today announced a collaboration to revolutionize the learning opportunities available to Cleveland-area schools through state-of-the-art distance learning...
USDA Rural Development has awarded $25.8 million in grants for 103 distance learning and telemedicine DLT projects that will provide improved educational and medical services to residents of 38 states. Under Secretary for Rural Development Thomas Dorr made the announcement during a USDA Rural Development-sponsored broadband telecommunications workshop in Charleston,...
LAS VEGAS -- PolycomR, Inc. (Nasdaq:PLCM), the world's leading provider of unified collaborative communications solutions, today announced significant customer expansions at colleges in Iowa and Arizona, bringing Polycom's solutions to additional students, faculty and business community members in those states. Both Central Arizona College CAC and Iowa's Hawkeye Community College...
MERIDEN, Conn.--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 21, 1995--ADC Video Systems, Inc. AVS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ADC Telecommunications, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, today announced it has entered into a joint marketing agreement with Videoconferencing Systems Inc. VSI of Norcross, Georgia, to cross-market, -sell, and -support certain video conferencing and distance learning products of...
SAN JOSE, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 7, 1998--ONE TOUCH Systems, Inc., a privately held Silicon Valley company and the world's leading provider of Interactive Distance Learning IDL solutions, announced that Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. Con Edison, one of the nation's largest utility companies, has chosen ONE TOUCH's Front RowTM...
BOCA RATON, Fla.--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 16, 1995--Horry Telephone Cooperative, Conway, S.C., has become one of the leading independent telephone companies in the state offering switched broadband services.
Distance learning programs catch on with New York executives as busy schedules make it harder for them to travel to campus Barry Dennison says it was his longtime interest in information technology that led him to spot the advertisement for New York UDistance learning programs catch...
In the 1990's many institutions have begun offering programs and courses delivered via distance learning technologies, particularly for returning adult learners who are time- and location-bound, desiring to advance their education and career opportunities yet constrained by job and family responsibilities. One popular form of distance learning is interactive television,...
BASKING RIDGE, N.J.--BUSINESS WIRE--June 12, 1995--AT&T's Center for Excellence in Distance Learning CEDL and three leading universities today announced a complete curriculum of "how to do it" workshops to broaden distance-learning training skills for AT&T's videoconferencing customers.
