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AnatomyOne demonstrates innovative approaches to learning and teaching anatomy at the 2013 Innovations in Medical Education conference. Salt Lake City, UT (PRWEB) February 23, 2013 Amirsys AnatomyOne today presented ground-breaking new solutions for learning and teaching anatomy at the Innovations in Medical Education (IME) conference in Los Angeles, California. AnatomyOne is the first online anatomy learning environment to give educators all the resources they need to create a custom...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Blackboard Inc. today announced an agreement with the Connecticut Board of Regents for Higher Education, which governs the Connecticut State Colleges & Universities system (ConnSCU), for a new, statewide platform for online and mobile learning to support ConnSCU's 17 institutions and 96,000 students. With the deal, each of the campuses will gain access to Blackboard Learn((TM)) and Blackboard Mobile Learn((TM)) for the next three...
UPPSALA, Sweden and MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, February 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ScootPad, the leading online learning platform for elementary grades and ReadSpeaker(R), the leading online text-to-speech service, have teamed up to enable "voice/read-aloud" support for students on ScootPad. ReadSpeaker's "click & listen" feature enables all K-5 students using ScootPad's platform to instantaneously listen to the math and reading practice questions & answers....
Program Will Award up to $20,000 to Each Recipient Institution to Further Explore Student Satisfaction, Completion and Retention Rates, and Measureable Learning Outcomes Rochester, NY (PRWEB) February 18, 2013 Adapt Courseware, the provider of comprehensive adaptive online curriculum resources that individualize each student’s learning experience, has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for its Scalable Adaptive Learning Research Grants. The program provides a new opportunity for...
DENVER, Feb. 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- FORTIS Online has launched a new instant messaging application that lets students and instructors see who's online, allowing them to quickly and easily communicate with each other via chat, voice, web conferencing, and more. Students also are able to immediately access such resources as career and student services, library resources, and financial aid using this application. The application is completely integrated into the online environment...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- BlackboardPay(TM), a student-centric prepaid card program, has received a 2013 Paybefore Award in the Best Consumer Value category, the company announced today. The award is the most prestigious recognition of excellence in the worldwide prepaid and emerging payments industry. BlackboardPay previously won a Paybefore Award in 2011 in the Best Government Funded Prepaid Program category. This year's winners were selected from a record number...
Leading business-media publication notes online university's affordable, high-quality, competency-based approach to education SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Online, nonprofit university Western Governors University, www.wgu.edu, was honored this week in Fast Company's annual Most Innovative Companies issue, ranking among leading businesses including Apple, Amazon, Google, and Target along with such rising newcomers as Square, Fab, and Tumblr. The Most...
RICHMOND, Va., Feb. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Award-winning education technology leader, SoftChalk, LLC (www.softchalk.com) today announced the launch of new features and enhancements to SoftChalk Cloud, its cross-platform learning object repository and content authoring platform that works with virtually any learning management system (LMS). (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130212/PH58296LOGO ) "One of the things that educators really love about SoftChalk is the...
TORONTO, Feb. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Top Hat Monocle, a provider of technology-based classroom and homework innovations, today announced it has signed a distribution agreement with Pearson, the world's leading learning company. The two companies will work together on a number of initiatives benefitting higher education, beginning with a discounted, packaged subscription to Top Hat Monocle's classroom response system, offered as an option with purchases of Pearson college textbooks...
We bring the classes to you. Online service provide family's greater flexibility without compromising quality. New York, New York (PRWEB) February 08, 2013 In the era of Skype, Adobe Connect, TokBox and plethora of other online videoconferencing platforms, it is becoming increasingly common to perform tasks and appointments that were once traditionally face-to-face over the Internet. Nowadays, business meetings and educational lessons can be executed over the Internet to a high degree...
