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Tegrity and Blackboard bring enhanced podcasting to colleges and universities

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Tegrity, a worldwide leader in student achievement systems, and Blackboard Inc., a leading provider of technology to educational institutions, are making it possible for college students to watch and listen to class lectures on their iPods at any time and from any location.

Through Tegrity Campus enterprise software and the Blackboard Learning System, recorded instruction from every class can now be automatically converted to enhanced podcasts for students to review later. The Tegrity Campus enterprise software seamlessly integrates with Blackboard, and includes a Blackboard Building Block, described and available for download at http://www.blackboard.com/extend/b2/. Blackboard Building Blocks are third party applications which enable academic institutions to extend and customize their Blackboard application. The Tegrity Campus Blackboard Building Block enables institutions to automatically capture, store and index every class on campus for later replay by every student. The on-demand content is accessible through Blackboard on any computer, and is now available on iPods as well. Each podcast is automatically indexed and enhanced with instructor audio, slides and annotations from class, making it much more engaging than audio-only podcasts.

Blackboard provides the e-Learning platform used by colleges and universities across the country and abroad. For more than a decade, Tegrity's technology has enabled educational institutions to automatically record every class on campus and deliver them online for students to access . Together Blackboard and Tegrity will enable greater access to educational resources and content providing significant convenience and flexibility to the members of academic institutions around the world. Podcasts Automatically Created from Class Tegrity Podcast setup starts at the beginning of the semester as the Tegrity Campus Blackboard Building Block adds a podcast subscription button in every Blackboard course and sends a personalized email to students with a one-click link for subscribing to their podcasts using iTunes. During class, instructors press one button to start and stop recording and the software automatically creates visual podcasts broken down by chapter, that are automatically uploaded after class to the right place on the Tegrity Server . The Tegrity Campus Blackboard Building Block component uses information already available in the Blackboard Learning System to automatically catalogue the recordings by course. While listening to their podcasts, students can easily navigate to specific parts (chapters) of their class and get right to the information they need.

SAC US’s largest online-degree provider

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United States News and World Report ranked San Antonio College as the sixth largest online degree-granting program in the United States, according to the magazine's e-Learning Guide.

The University of Phoenix, which maintains a campus in San Antonio, based in Arizona; Park University in Parkville; St. Leo University in Saint Leo; the University of Maryland, University College in Adelphi; and Central Texas College in Killeen, Texas, were listed as the top five schools. According to the publication, students were enrolled in 19,000 online classes at San Antonio College during the 2004-2005 academic year. Classes include a combination of content on CD-ROM, video and some on-campus meetings. San Antonio College offers 195 distance-education courses toward the completion of an associate in arts and science degree, and an associate in applied science degree. The school also offers online associate's degrees in mathematics and criminal justice.

University of Toronto selects Blackboard for e-Learning

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Blackboard Inc., a leading provider of technology to educational institutions and corporate and government agencies, announces the University of Toronto, a leading teaching and research university in Canada, has licensed the Blackboard Academic Suite(TM), a suite of three integrated software products which support a Networked Learning Environment(TM).

A Networked Learning Environment enables students and teachers to learn, connect and share educational materials and resources from practically any location and at any time. The Blackboard Academic Suite fosters Web-based and Web-enhanced learning and is used by hundreds of universities, colleges and K-12 schools in North America and abroad.

The university plans to utilize the system immediately to enhance the student experience by providing improved integration of digital resources, better communication and collaboration utilities and a consistent, web-based interface across courses. Instructors will benefit from possibilities for new methods of instruction and more effective and efficient class administration.

President of India calls for joint design and development of tablet PC

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Citing the successful joint venture of India and Russia to harness the core competencies of the two nations for the benefit of the humanity, President of ndia A P J Abdul Kalam called for a joint design, development and Manufacturing of handheld tablet PC with multilingual capability.

According to the President, missions of world knowledge platform should include the convergeance of bio, nano and the Information and Communication Technology. Areas such as electronics, ICT and Automobile sectors should be focussed in the areas of design, development leading to productionisation for meeting the market demands of the respective countries and also for the world market. Development and manufacturing of handheld tablet PC should be done with a cost effective factor and open source operating system and software configured for the school students and common citizen who wanted to benefit from the e-Governance initiatives to meet requirements of Asia Pacific and African countries. This PC would have wireless connectivity so that it could take care of communication needs and possibly even the telephone besides sufficient video capability to act as an entertainment platform. For young students it should serve as a boon in ensuring substantial reduction of carrying heavy books and note books.

ICT course aims to change lives in New Zealand

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The Unlimited Potential course aims to give computer skills to people in New Zealand who may never have had the chance before. The course sponsors – the Government and Microsoft – hopes that local communities will be revitalised as a result.

Minister for the Community, Winnie Laban says new skills can lead to new jobs and creative alternatives to dead-end employment. Microsoft NZ Managing Director Ross Peat says the examples of countries like Ireland and Singapore have already shown what happens when a population has crossed the digital divide. Some of the pilot schemes have been very solidly based in the local communities, with Microsoft providing network equipment, PCs and software to enable the training to be carried out actually in the community rather than elsewhere. The technology and the software provide opportunities for people to realise their potential, and can transform lives.

Auditor to monitor ICT usage in Malaysian schools

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The Education Ministry in Malaysia will soon appoint an independent auditor to monitor the effectiveness of the use of ICT in all schools.

This was necessary as almost 87% of schools in the country have either desktop computers or notebooks. It is important to know whether teachers are using the facilities effectively in the learning and teaching process and whether there are enough computers. Also is important to know whether the computers are lying idle or whether they have been supplied to schools which don't have power supply. The ministry had initially short-listed five companies for the auditor role, however three companies pulled out after he laid down stringent conditions.

Thomson Learning to get software award for the Picture Dictionary CD

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Thomson ELT, a leading provider of materials for English language teaching and learning throughout the world and part of the Thomson Corporation, announced its selection as a finalist in the Software & Information Industry Association's 21st Annual Codie Awards for The Heinle Picture Dictionary Interactive CD-ROM. The Codie Awards is the only peer recognition program in the software and information industry providing a unique opportunity for companies to compete for the praise of their competitors.
 
The Heinle Picture Dictionary's 124 richly illustrated lessons, complete with audio support for all words, are fully searchable and easy to navigate. Learners at various language levels can explore the vocabulary and contexts most important to them as they build fluency. The program offers a wealth of activity types that practice all skill areas at levels ranging from basic word searches to higher-level dictation exercises. Thomson ELT shares top honors with four others in the English Language Acquisition category. The 2006 Codie Awards winners will be announced at a gala event on May 16, 2006 at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, California.

Thomson provides value-added information, software tools and applications to more than 20 million users in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, higher education, reference information, corporate e-Learning and assessment, scientific research and healthcare. Thomson ELT is a leading provider of materials for English language teaching and learning throughout the world. It publishes under the brands of Thomson, Thomson ELT, and Thomson Heinle. You can learn more about ELT Advantage and Thomson ELT by visiting on the web at http://elt.thomson.com.

President of India moots US$200bn target for Indian IT industry

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Addressing the NASSCOM 2006, the president of India congratulated the Indian IT industry for achieving US$33.6 billion business for the 2006 from US$28 billion in 2005. It is notable that the NASSCOM is aiming to achieve US$60 billion by 2010.< ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

The president was armed with a plan to achieve US$200 billion business by 2010. Currently, Indian IT services contribute 3.4 percent of the global market. Work out this for 15 percent, then youone could expect to achieve $200 billion, he said. Presenting an eight point agenda to achieve this objective, president Kalam said, aim with competitiveness – aim high and keep trying; address small and medium ICT industries and encourage consortium approach for IT solution; undertake a major drive in capacity building the graduates with the aim to provide value added IT services; ITeS and BPO in the secondary cities; encourage innovation and creativity among IT personnel thereby increasing ROI for customers; focus on Asia Pacific, ASEAN and African countries; focus on Indian domestic market; India is proposing a 'Pan Africa e-Network' for connecting 53 countries for tele-medicine, tele-education between India and Africa; proposed world knowledge platform will be a launch pad for many innovations and create new markets for partnering nations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

IGNOU and NBE tie up to develop medical education in India

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digitalLEARNING Network
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Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) and National Board of Examination (NBE) entered into a Memorandum of Collaboration to lay the foundation for cooperation and joint action to support the development of medical education and training in the country.

Common Objectives & Concerns for this MoU are, recognizing the common goals of Higher Medical Education and continuous training needs of Doctors to participate effectively in the processes of national Development, considering the capabilities of IGNOU in providing higher education to large target groups of learners in areas of education identified above with focus on sharing resources and mutual acknowledgement of the experience, expertise and capabilities of IGNOU and NBE and give due importance to collaboration, resource sharing and partnerships.

Strategies are to establish a network of centres identified jointly by IGNOU & NBE and other such institutions of learning in India who are involved in related activities in the field of higher medical education, to provide for sharing of academic and technological experiences between IGNOU and the NBE from time to time and develop strategies for design, development and implementation of Postgraduate and continuing medical education programmes with provision for suitable funding.

IITs decide to almost double intake, open new campuses

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All set to expand, Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) will be nearly doubling their present intake, opening new campuses and introducing new courses.

IIT-Roorkee has already zeroed in on NOIDA to locate its new campus while at least two other IITs are scouting for land. Though the attempt by IIM, Bangalore to open a campus in Singapore had ran into trouble with the Ministry of Human Resource Development, IIT expansion plans have the full backing of the Ministry. IIT-Delhi is likely to open a campus in Rajasthan, either in Jaipur or Alwar. IIT-Chennai will start a research centre in BHEL at Trichy, keeping the option of developing it into a campus later. IIT-Mumbai, which had signed an MoU with the Goa government four years ago, is pursuing the project to start a campus there. It will also upgrade its present campus in Powai. IIT-Kanpur too will have a new campus. IITs are also in the process of enhancing coordination amongst themselves to ensure uniformity in standards.

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