Web Seminar: E-learning Trends, Practices & Predictions
Every day new e-learning technologies and practices are born. Which are fads and what have staying power...

Impact of WikiLeaks on Security
"Nothing is secure, whatever man can lock-up, some one can get to it, the best you can do is to make it difficult, time consuming and expensive to get at, and that people will always be the weakest link in any security chain."...

Report Shows Value Of Online Development
English and math teachers who take professional development courses online improve instructional practices, boost subject knowledge scores, and produce modest performance gains for their students...

Deals

Unified Communications Solutions
Polycom, Inc. has signed a multi-year, strategic global agreement with Micorsoft Corp. to deliver integrated end-to-end unified communications (UC) and to improve customers' business productivity...

Training Solutions For Deployed Soldiers
The U.S. Army is testing a learning technology solution from Saba for mobile and low bandwidth connectivity...

Centralizing Compliance Training
Aero Precision, an international supplier of military aircraft parts for the aerospace industry headquartered in Livermore, Calif., has selected Learn.com's knowledge platform to centralize compliance training and reporting and to automate career development for employees...

WEB 2.0: Learning Environment Uses Second Life
CyberWatch has launched a 3-D online virtual environment in Second Life...

TOOLS: New Version Creates Games in 3 Dimensions
Learning Objects' Campus Pack is the first-ever basic learning tools interoperability (LTI) consumer and provider...

CONTENT: Launch of New Custom Solutions Group
The primary goal of Globalstor CSG is to help customers define and develop integrated graphics and storage solutions that offer maximum performance and functionality under the diverse and changing conditions of today's marketplace...

Your Government Elearning! E-zine has Arrived

Online learning-for students and for teachers- is one of the fastest growing trends in educational uses of technology. It overlaps with the broader category of distance learning, which encompasses earlier technologies such as correspondence courses, educational television and videoconferencing.

Studies of distance learning conclude that these technologies are not significantly different from regular classroom learning in terms of effectiveness. Policy-makers reason that if online instruction is no worse than traditional instruction in terms of student outcomes, then online education initiatives could be justified on the basis of need or cost efficiency to provide access to learners in settings where face-to-face instruction is not feasible.