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Kaplan Appoints David Munns Chief Financial Officer of Kaplan Europe

Kaplan, Inc., a leading global provider of education and a subsidiary of The Washington Post Company , has announced the appointment of David Munns as Chief Financial Officer of Kaplan Europe.
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New educational software for mobile learning in developing countries

Commonwealth of Learning (2010) LIVES: Mobile phones for learning Connections February, Vol. 15, No. 1

In a blog posting in December (2009), I wrote that a priority for e-learning for 2010 was the development of educational applications for mobile learning, particularly for developing countries. Well, the Commonwealth of Learning and the University of British Columbia were [...]

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New educational software for mobile learning in developing countries

Commonwealth of Learning (2010) LIVES: Mobile phones for learning Connections February, Vol. 15, No. 1

In a blog posting in December (2009), I wrote that a priority for e-learning for 2010 was the development of educational applications for mobile learning, particularly for developing countries. Well, the Commonwealth of Learning and the University of British Columbia were [...]

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Move to New Servers is Complete!

Thanks to our excellent support team, our edu1world has been moved to new servers at Rackspace and we are back online even sooner than expected.

Edu1world is provided in a SaaS environment from Enterprise Hive.  Enterprise Hive uses the hosting services of Rackspace and today we moved to a new configuration.  

You will find more of your peers on edu1world as we continue to add thousands of new users to our communities.

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Canadian University College Gains Web Filtering Accuracy with Bloxx

Bloxx, the innovator in Web Content Filtering, announced today that Canadian University College in Lacombe, Alberta has deployed its Internet Filtering appliance to provide advanced Web protection to its 700 users across two campuses.
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Thomson Reuters Launches Academic Reputation Survey as Part of Global Institutional Profiles Project

Thomson Reuters today announced it has launched the highly anticipated Academic Reputation Survey, which will help inform the Times Higher Education's influential World University Rankings.
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Blackboard Introduces Flexible Financial Aid Disbursement for Higher Education

Blackboard Inc. (Nasdaq: BBBB) today announced the launch of Blackboard Pay(TM), an open-loop prepaid card program that lets educational institutions simplify the disbursement of financial aid credit balances - as well as student payroll - while cutting costs for institutions and lowering student fees
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Can web 2.0 tools be legally used for education in Canada?

I raise this as a result of an interesting question from Ron Richard,of Meritus University, Canada. Ron asked Tony Vincent, who runs the excellent Learning in Hand site, and myself:

I have recently been researching some web-based resources for our faculty, who teach exclusively online, but who do not venture much outside the limited [...]

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Cumbria faces £1m cut after ignoring rules on recruitment

Last year the government told all the universities in England not to recruit more students in 2009-10 than they accepted in 2008-09. It warned institutions that they would be fined £3,700 for each student they took on above that threshold.
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The College Network Enables Universities to Offer New and Existing Curricula Online to a Global Audience

The College Network™ provides a fast and cost-effective option for colleges and universities that want to repurpose existing course content or develop new content to offer distance learning programs to a global audience. Through The College Network, university partners can transform current curricula and develop fully interactive online content that can be delivered to a much broader audience than traditional campus-based programs.