Baltic Sea Virtual Campus in Northern Europe
Twelve university chancellors from Baltic countries have agreed to
cooperate in an online tuition project. On June 11, the group signed
a contract which paves the way for the foundation of a "Baltic Sea
Virtual Campus" (BSVC), which is aimed at developing and implementing
a series of virtual educational offers in northern Europe. In the
coming winter semester, a master degree in transregional management
will be run as a pilot project. This will be followed in 2005 with
regular courses of study. The eLearning project is supported by the
European Union’s Regional Development Fund, among others.
Educational institutions from Denmark, Germany, Finland, Latvia,
Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Sweden are all involved in the
initiative.
e-TQM College Deploys IP Telephony
e-TQM College, an eLearning organization claims to be the first government
body in Dubai to deploy IP telephony. The system, based on Cisco technology
will allow tutors, students and administration to make calls and conferences
using the system from anywhere in the world. The university believes the new
IP telephony service will enable it to reduce costs, increase employee mobility
by moving from legacy private branch exchange (PBX) and eventually lower their
total cost of ownership including equipment, maintenance and network carrier
charges.
CampusEAI Launches Oracle Portal Training Conference
CampusEAI sponsored a first ever, five-day, Oracle Portal Training Conference
from June 14th thru June 25th. Over thirty attendees representing fifteen CampusEAI
Consortium member institutions gathered at Kansas State University last week
for the Training Conference.
CampusEAI arranged for Oracle University to provide its five-day Oracle Application
Server 10g: Administration I training course to the attendees. Attendees, who
are System, Database and Web Administrators, gained considerable hands-on experience
in configuring the OracleAS 10g Infrastructure and Middle-Tier, deploying PL/SQL
and J2EE applications, and managing Oracle Internet Directory and Oracle Single
Sign-On Server. The training was conducted in a lab environment where each attendee
was provisioned with his or her own computer console.
Read
more
Mann Library Gets Federal Grant To Preserve Historical Agricultural
Literature On Microfilm
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded $618,857
to the Albert R. Mann Library at Cornell University to preserve
local and state agricultural literature on microfilm. The library
also is re-launching the Core Historical Literature of Agriculture
(CHLA) Web site to make agricultural materials of national historical
significance available on the World Wide Web. The NEH grant and the
CHCA contribute to a long-term preservation project, the National
Preservation Program for Agricultural Literature (NPPAL). The
project prevents historically significant published materials on
the history of state and local agriculture and rural life from being
lost to natural decay.
eCollege, Microsoft and HP Collaborate on CMS Functionality
eCollege, a leading provider of value-added information services to the post-secondary
education market, today announced it is collaborating with Microsoft Corp. and
HP in the development of an industry-leading content management system specifically
designed to support enterprise-wide eLearning programs both online and on campus.
The eCollege Content Manager will be fully integrated into the
eCollege platform to help institutions centrally manage, standardize
and reuse content across multiple programs, courses, sections, and
other applications. This helps institutions simplify enterprise-wide
administrative processes to easily and securely maintain content.
It also enables institutions to decrease the time and cost of
content development, while still improving the quality, consistency
and interactivity of courses.
Teachers Test Web Training
Johnson C. Smith University is offering its first-ever online course
to nine Shelby teaching assistants this summer. Part of a pilot
program connected to the Charlotte university’s new Campus and
Community Center for eLearning and Technology, the course, entitled
Psychology of the Exceptional, is helping nine teaching assistants
from Cleveland County become certified.
Digital Preservation Program Launches Research Grants Initiative
The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program of
the Library of Congress (NDIIPP) is partnering with the National Science Foundation
(NSF) to establish the first research grants program to specifically address
digital preservation. NSF will administer the program, which will fund cutting-edge
research to support the long-term management of digital information. This effort
is part of the Library’s collaborative program to implement a national digital
preservation strategy.
|