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Sylvan Learning, Inc. Announces Signing of Seven Area-Agreements in Middle East
Sylvan Learning, Inc. — Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Sylvan Learning, Inc. announced today widespread expansion in the Middle East. A recent franchise agreement with Mohamed A. Dobashi highlights Sylvan's efforts to grow the brand in countries outside of the United States and Canada. Read More »
Interest In International Youth Exchange Remains High
Council on Standards for International Educational Travel — Thursday, April 02, 2009
The Council on Standards for International Educational Travel (CSIET) reports that during the 2008-2009 school year nearly 28,000 international students came to the U.S. as exchange students. Additionally, over 2,000 U.S. students are spending a semester or year abroad. Read More »
The Education Commission of the States (ECS) Releases New International Benchmarking Toolkit
Education Commission of the States — Thursday, April 02, 2009
Today ECS goes live with the International Benchmarking Toolkit, a unique resource for state policymakers, school district officials, principals and teachers looking to raise the bar in America's classrooms. Read More »
Pearson eCollege Expands Global Presence to Latin America
Pearson eCollegE — Saturday, March 21, 2009
Pearson eCollege has announced the continued global expansion of its integrated learning technology and services, with new offices in Mexico and Brazil aimed at increasing educational opportunities for students of all ages throughout Latin America. Read More »
Capstone Publishers Donates 10,000 Books to African Countries
Capstone Publishers — Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Capstone Publishers, the leading publisher of high-kid-appeal children’s books for school and public libraries, has made a donation of 10,000 books to Books for Africa, the world’s largest shipper of donated text and library books to the African continent. Read More »
Wimba Offers Wimba Collaboration Suite™ As Locally Hosted Solution for Canadian Customers
Wimba® Inc. — Wednesday, March 04, 2009
By making the Wimba Collaboration Suite™ available as a locally-hosted solution, even more Canadian educators will have access to this innovative technology for collaborative teaching and learning. Read More »
Two Million Minutes Film Maker Announces Release of Two New DVDs on Global Education
Bob Compton — Monday, March 02, 2009
Bob Compton, creator and executive producer of the provocative documentary Two Million Minutes: A Global Examination, announces the release of two follow-up films – Two Million Minutes in India and Two Million Minutes in China. Read More »
Canada’s Most Tech Savvy Educator Title in the HP MindShare Learning 21st Century Classroom Video Contest
MindShare Learning — Saturday, February 28, 2009
The final HP MindShare Learning 21st Century Interactive Classroom contest winner, Mr. Mark Melnyk, is not your typical high school history teacher. Mr. Melnyk created the Classroom of the Future model featuring a wide variety of technology and web-based learning tools, student exemplars, lesson plans, online projects, interactive activities, blogs, monitored online chat, and e-zines. Read More »
Learnosity Connects Language Learners via Voxbone;
Voxbone and Learnosity — Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Through its global IP network and store of access numbers, Voxbone will enable Learnosity’s students to share their native fluencies and accents with their fellows on other continents, for the cost of local calls. Read More »
UAE Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research Selects SunGard Higher Education To Create New National Data Warehouse
SunGard Higher Education — Monday, February 23, 2009
The Department of Higher Education Policy Planning and Coordination (HEPPC) under the auspices of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MOHESR), has selected SunGard Higher Education to help create a national data warehouse that will integrate data from all segments of higher education in the UAE as well as other data sources. Read More »
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