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A Digest of Recent Corporate News in Distance Education
- National Technological University has signed an agreement with Hughes Network Systems to deliver business and computer skills courses via Hughes's DirecPC satellite system. Courses in the edgeUcast service will be based on courses already offered by PBS The Business and Technology Network, a division of the National Technological University Corporation. (Link to press release.)
- Smarthinking, a new company that plans to provide online academic assistance to students in popular undergraduate courses, has started a pilot test of the service for students in selected classes at 15 institutions: Central Florida Community College, in Ocala, Fla.; City University, in Seattle; College of Eastern Utah, in Price, Utah; Cornerstone University, in Grand Rapids, Mich.; Delaware County Community College, in Media, Pa.; Effat College, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Montgomery College, in Rockville, Md.; Mountain Empire Community College, in Big Stone Gap, Va.; Northern Virginia Community College's Extended Learning Institute; Pallas Learning, in Vancouver, British Columbia; Pima Community College, in Tucson; Prince George's Community College, in Largo, Md.; Rappahannock Community College, in Glenns, Va.; Southeastern University, in Washington, D.C.; and Washburn University of Topeka, in Kansas. Students participating in the pilot program will be able to use the service free. The company plans to start charging for the service later this year. (Link to press release.)
- Capella University, an online university based in Minneapolis, has agreed to provide online courses on e-commerce to employees and customers of Lawson Software, a company that sells e-commerce software to companies. (Link to press release.)
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University Access, an online-learning company, have started a program called the Corporate MBA, in which a team of executives from a given company will study together, via both distance learning and in-person classes at Chapel Hill. (Link to press release.)
- The California Institute of Technology has agreed to permit the Web site of getstartedhere.com, which promotes the development of new businesses, to show video recordings of a Caltech course on entrepreneurship that is taught by John D. Baldeschwieler, a professor of chemistry at Caltech. Access to the recordings is free. (Link to press release.)
- Heriot-Watt University, in Scotland, Texas A&M University, the University of Oklahoma, and Schlumberger, a company that provides services to the petroleum industry, have agreed to create a set of professional-development courses for that industry. The courses will use online instruction and self-study materials on CD-ROM in addition to in-person instruction. (Link to press release.)
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