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FOCUS - Learning Readiness Assessments and Organizational Culture: Keys to Effective e-Learning by Major Jim Bischoff

UW NEWS -UW Requests Exclusion from New State Electronic Agency, UWEX Faculty Create New Impact Software, TTT

QUESTION/RESPONSE - Has anyone ever used the "Smartboard" interactive whiteboard over a videoconference system?

LINES - April News Highlights

ED - Accredited Higher Ed Questions Peterson's New Direction, Quality Matters, Napster May Herald a Revolution in Distance Learning, MIT Free Course Plan

BIZ/GOV/ED - e-Commerce Courses Big on Campus, e-Learning and Human Resource Executives, Experiment in Future Courtrooms Given Encouraging Verdict, Motorola U Trades Education and Training for Market Access in China

TECH/TOOLS - Virtual Reality on the Web, Virtual Tour in Your Palm, Tele-immersion: The Hottest App, AppleWorks 6.1 for Educators, U of MI Develops Ed Software for Handhelds, i-Glasses: The New Virtual Theater

READS/RESOURCES - College Times Web site, Forbes Special Edition on e-Learning, Accessible e-Learning Report, Creating Learner-Centered Courses for the World Wide Web

ISSUES/CHALLENGES - Three New Sites to Fight Hate, Verizon Foundation Offers eGrants to Non-Profits

POSITIONS - Northeastern U Assistant Dean of Distance Learning

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ENDNOTE -
"...the process of changing education more widely and deeply is, itself, an educational process - a transformative one. Changing Education is Education. So, lifelong learning, for educators, is no longer a choice, it is a responsibility. If changing education is education, then it cannot be done quickly, casually, or easily. It will require much good will, direction, and hard work. Increasing the quality and accessibility of education and information will be worth the effort - it already is."
(from AAHESGIT-103: "Changing Education is Education" by Steve Gilbert, 24 Apr 01 05:59:28 -0700. With permission from Steve Gilbert, CLICK: http://www.tltgroup.org/listserv/copyright.html

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