TEN TOP BUSINESS IDEAS FROM 2001 - Trying to keep up with the latest trends and ideas in business and management? MeansBusiness, hosts a large online database of business ideas, and has created a list of the 10 most important business ideas and articles published in 2001. From this website you can read summaries of the ideas and link to the original articles in such publications as The Economist, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review and Financial Times. See: MeansBusiness.com. "Ideas in the News," vol. III no 1, 9 Jan 02 at:
http://www.meansbusiness.com/ideas_archive.asp (infocus Newsletter of UCEA vol. 7 no 2, Mar 02)

DISTANCE LEARNING LOBBY PRAISES INTERNET BILL - A distance learning lobbying group said it supported the House's passage of H.R. 1542, the Internet Freedom and Deployment Act. U.S. Distance Learning Association executive director John Flores said passage of the bill is "good news for the nation's distance learning industry whose future prosperity depends on universal access to broadband technology in our nation's homes, schools, universities and workplaces." The bill, sponsored by Reps. Billy Tauzin (R-La.) and John Dingell (D-Mi.), requires Bell companies' central offices to have high speed data capabilities within five years. For more information, see: http://www.usdla.org (Syllabus News, Resources, Trends, 5 Mar 02)

ARMY ONLINE UNIVERSITY EXPANDS IN SECOND YEAR - The U.S. Army's e-learning portal, EArmyU.com, attracted 12,000 students during its first year of operation, and the Army plans now to increase the size of the program by almost 100%. The portal, which is managed by PricewaterhouseCoopers for the Army, connects soldiers who enroll with university and certificate programs that are available through the program. Students get computers and Internet access from the Army to complete their programs of study. The Army hopes to add 10,000 students to the program by the end of fiscal year 2002. (GovExec.com, 26 Feb 02 - Edupage 1 Mar 02)