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SciQuest Expands Higher Education Leadership with Significant New Customer Signings

SciQuest, Inc., the global leader empowering enterprises to realize the potential of strategic procurement, concluded a year of significant growth that saw the company's customer base among colleges and universities grow by more than 20 percent in 2008. Read More »

Simon Study Abroad Bill Introduced Today

The legislation calls for the creation of an innovative national program to build the country's intellectual capacity and economic competitiveness by dramatically expanding opportunities for American college students to gain a global education. Read More »

Louisiana Technical College Marks 5 Years of Student Success with Developmental Education Solutions from PLATO Learning

With access to more than 1,100 online PLATO instructional content licenses, PLATO Learning provides the core of LTC’s statewide developmental English, reading, and math education programs. Read More »

Embanet and Abilene Christian University Partner To Develop New e-Portfolio System for Moodle LMS

New e-Portfolio software will enable online students in higher education to demonstrate their learning by sharing authentic examples of academic work and achievements with their instructors, colleagues, grad schools and potential employers. Read More »

Jenzabar Reports Continued Growth During Economic Downturn; New System Sales Drive Revenues to Record Levels

Jenzabar, Inc. announced that the demand for its flagship products in 2008 has surpassed previous years, achieving record-high total revenue during the economic downturn. In addition to growing returns over the last year, Jenzabar has increased its workforce by 11 percent since 2007 to manage the new business. Read More »

Delaware Valley College Adopts Timecruiser Solution Suite To Support Online Learning

Timecruiser Computing Corporation, a trusted software as a service (SaaS) partner to the higher education community since 1999, today announced that Delaware Valley College has adopted CampusCruiser™, Timecruiser’s on-demand, enterprise academic solution. Read More »

ClassChatterLive Releases Advanced, Affordable Web 2.0 Tools for Educators

ClassChatter.com LLC, a New Jersey-based online educational services provider, has released ClassChatterLive, its first premium suite of online courseware tools. A team of teachers designed ClassChatterLive with the goal of making online courseware that works in conjunction with educators. Read More »

Oracle Selects Unicon To Provide Implementation Services for PeopleSoft Enterprise Student Administration Integration Pack

As a third-party provider, Unicon will deliver installation, configuration, and deployment services using SAIP to integrate PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solutions with standards-based major vendor-supplied and open source learning management systems.... Read More »

Cleveland State CC Course Redesign Project Powered by Pearson's MyMathLab

The Community College Futures Assembly recently awarded its 2009 Instructional Programs & Services Bellwether Award to Cleveland State Community College for the institution's course redesign project, an innovative developmental math program that has proven to enhance student outcomes. Read More »

Walden University Offers New Programs To Prepare Students for Careers in High-Demand Fields

Walden University is offering three new degree programs designed to meet increasing demands for qualified professionals in the fields of nursing, instructional design and technology, and management leadership ... Read More »