Overview Back In 2007⋅⋅⋅ In 2007, supported by five of the most prominent textbook publishers in higher education, CourseSmart started out with the simple goal of providing instructors in college and higher education a better textbook evaluation service. We knew that for instructors, getting textbooks for evaluation was a tedious and time consuming task. They'd contact the publisher directly, then wait days for a book to ship or wait for the publisher sales representative to deliver it in person. And go through the same process again for each book they wanted to review. For publishers, it was just as difficult, spending millions of dollars each year to give away thousands of sample textbooks to faculty across the country, without knowing if an instructor would eventually assign the book for their course. Millions Of Users, Millions In Savings By 2008, students were telling us they wanted a digital option for textbooks too. And we couldn't stop there. More Titles, More Innovation Our Partners
PLATO: The Emergence of Online Community Copyright © 1994 by David R. Woolley An earlier version of this article appeared in the January 1994 issue of Matrix News. Overview Two decades before the World Wide Web came on the scene, the PLATO system pioneered online forums and message boards, email, chat rooms, instant messaging, remote screen sharing, and multiplayer games, leading to the emergence of what was perhaps the world's first online community. The PLATO system was designed for Computer-Based Education. PLATO originated in the early 1960's at the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois. PLATO is a timesharing system. Throughout the 1960's, PLATO remained a small system, supporting only a single classroom of terminals. PLATO Notes: Original Development In the summer of 1973, Paul Tenczar asked me to write a program that would let PLATO users report system bugs online. We already had a way for users to report bugs, but it was just an open text file called "notes". This was simple enough, but there were problems. Anonymity
Online Learning Solutions for Health Science | Business | IT — AES Education netlearning-learning-management-system-recognized-as-2011-codie-award-finalist-for-education-technology-121247289 Cengage Learning Logo. (PRNewsFoto/Cengage Learning) STAMFORD, Conn., May 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- NetLearning, part of Cengage Learning and a leading provider of online courses and e-learning software for healthcare workers and hospital administrators, today announced that the latest version of the NetLearning Learning Management System (LMS) has been selected as a 2011 CODiE Award finalist in the Education Technology category Best Professional Development Solution. (Logo: "We are honored that NetLearning's LMS was selected as a finalist for this year's CODiE Awards," said Will Passano, vice president, NetLearning. The NetLearning LMS allows healthcare facilities to manage the educational requirements of their staff, track training compliance and personalize each learner's interface. Of the 425 total CODiE Award nominations awarded this year, only 113 products from 80 companies were selected as finalists. SOURCE Cengage Learning
50 Must-Have Firefox Extensions for e-Learning & Researching | The .Edu Toolbox Are you an e-Learner or a researcher? No matter if you are learning or working online or on campus, the following Firefox extensions can make your life easier. From organization to collaboration and from citation tools to complete research toolboxes, Firefox is equipped to handle your studies. The following list of 50 Firefox extensions for e-Learning and researching are categorized. Organizing Cryptic notes and unorganized bookmarks are the bane of many an e-Learner and researcher. Delicious Firefox Add-On : Use this add-on to synchronize all your bookmarks in your Firefox browser and from your bookmarks page on the Delicious website. Reading for Research and eLearning Research and eLearning involves reading. aideRSS : Now Google Reader users can reclaim their time with a single mouse click to find the best content, boost their productivity and stay on top of the news. Reference Research and Writing CiteGenie : Law students will love this one. Search: Security Sharing
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