Posted 18 February 2008. The Scuola e Lavoro Marche is an Educational and Training Institute, located in the Marche region of Italy. The Institute has over 10 years experience in the education sector and provides a wide range of professional training courses dedicated to today’s employment sector.

The Institute targets the areas of innovation and research and closely m...   (read article)

19 February 2008. The Johnson School at Cornell University is pleased to announce the extension of the Cornell-Queen's Executive MBA Program to Texas in both Houston and Dallas. The Johnson School will be hosting recruiting events at hotels in Dallas and Houston during March, April, and May.

The Cornell-Queen’s Executive MBA Program was established in 2005. It allows a ...   (read article)

Posted 4 February 2008. Gary Todd says his speedy recovery from major lung surgery is due to the fact he didn’t have to make repeated trips from Kingston to Toronto, thanks to Providence Care’s Telemedicine technology and nurse Eddy Lloyd (right). Providence Care uses  42-inch plasma video monitors and a Polycom ViewStation FX system. usig 384 kilobites per second of bandw...   (read article)

31 January 2008. California State University, Fresno, has deployed Avistar’s desktop videoconferencing technology to enhance communication across its faculty and to build an ecosystem that supports entrepreneurship in the Central Valley of California.

Available to users across the Fresno State Campus, Avistar brings key decision makers face-to-face with a single click ...   (read article)

14 November 2007. Temple University with more than 34,000 students is the 26th largest university in the United States. It is the sixth largest provider of professional education (law, dentistry, medicine, pharmacy, and podiatric medicine) in the country. It has a distinguished faculty in 17 schools and colleges, including schools of Law, Medicine, Pharmacy, Podiatry, and Denti...   (read article)

22 October 2007. Western Kentucky University (WKU) has experienced a 20 percent increase in its student body over the last four years. A new converged voice, data and video network that delivers distance-learning courses to small rural communities located far from the university's main campus in Bowling Green, Ky, helps to support this growth. Avaya and Polycom equipment is use...   (read article)

1 May 2007. Applied Global Technologies is now offering Higher Education and Corporate Trainers with a direct link to internet-based teleworkers around the world via its new Distance Education Hosting Zone™. This Zone, powered by AGT’s VIDEO PRESENTER®, provides turn-key services for Distance Learning, Fortune 500, and State IP/VPN/ISDN networks.

“Our current clients a...   (read article)

29 January 2007.The Universities of Birmingham, Nottingham and Warwick in the UK are to combine their expertise and create a partnership of excellence in physics research and education.

The Midlands Physics Alliance (MPA) will bring together leading academics from all three institutions to undertake large scale research and the formation of a graduate school which will ...   (read article)

  
12 December 2006.  Applied Global Technologies (AGT), leading innovator of on-demand video solutions and applications, is providing distance learning services for MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

The AGT service package includes AGT’s on-demand collaboration technology, VIDEO PRESENTER™, and its operator-assisted help desk to support M...   (read article)

5 September 2006. Abu Dhabi University (ADU) is built on a foundation of strong values and the research-based knowledge of itsfaculty. It strives to be the nation's premier university, continuously updating its curriculum, bringing in top-level faculty from all over the world, and building a highly motivated student body. ADU has already become a major contributor to the develo...   (read article)

4 September 2006. The University of Queensland, Gatton offers the best programs of their type in - agribusiness, agriculture, animal studies, environmental management and horticulture - available anywhere in Australia. UQ Gatton boasts a long history, beautiful grounds and excellent facilities.

Founded in 1870 and called Queensland Agricultural College (QAC) until 1990...   (read article)

26 July 2006. ESnet at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Virginia Tech have selected Codian video conferencing inrastructure solutions for online learning and to enhance project collaboration.

The Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) is a high-speed network serving thousands of Department of Energy scientists and collaborators worldwide.  Managed...   (read article)

 10 July 2006. The Research and Education Advanced Network New Zealand (REANNZ) is almost ready. Chairman of REANNZ, Dr Jim Watson, said that The Research and Education Advanced Network is a Government initiative to provide an ultra-high speed broadband connection linking universities and research organisations to each other and to similar organisations overseas. The netwo...   (read article)

12 June 2006.  China’s University of Petroleum (UPC), a major engineering university, is enhancing the network connecting its three separate campuses with a Nortel solution to improve communications and ensure easy online access to advanced learning resources for 40,000 students.

Connecting existing UPC campus networks in Beijing, and Dongying and Qingdao in East C...   (read article)

25 April 2006. inSORS Integrated Communications, Inc. has released an interesting Case Study made at the University of Memphis. inSORS, based in Chicago with operations throughout the US and Europe, develops, markets, and supports global enterprise collaboration software and solutions that enable multiple groups and individuals to collaborate via audio, video, and data modes of...   (read article)

Posted 19 December 2005. The beautiful Highlands and Islands of northern Scotland are a tough domain for a university system. There is no shortage of bright, motivated students. The problem is that they are scattered across mountains, glens, and a broad, windswept expanse of the North Atlantic Ocean. (See picture)

Fortunately, academia today is a state of mind. Some 6,000 far-flung High...   (read article)

5 December 2005. The Groupe des Ecoles des Mines ( ŒGEM¹) in France, has adopted an internet based solution which enables fully collaborative meetings and conferences between educators and students regardless of their location using simple laptop computers. Server software from Marratech is used to create virtual meeting rooms which are used by professors at their desks and students at their ho...   (read article)

23  November 2005.  Case Western Reserve University has selected Virage software to power their MediaVision Courseware application. Besides providing traditional audio-visual services, MediaVision creates an innovative learning environment, offering advanced new technologies, such as videoconferencing, streaming media and an interactive digital television system.

Virage's abi...   (read article)

21 November 2005. A new Web initiative, launched last week at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), will connect anyone with Internet access and the desire to learn to a world of free, high-quality open educational materials. The Development Gateway Foundation’s  Open Educational Resources portal aims to equalize access to education and help people in developing countries imp...   (read article)

Posted 31 October 2005. Gifu University is centrally located in Japan's Gifu Prefecture.  Approximately 283 professors and 800 technical and administrative staff offer courses to over 6,000 undergraduates and 1,700 post-graduate students.

 The University first deployed classroom video conferencing in 1997 to assist remotely-located students.Since then, Gifu University has exte...   (read article)

25 October 2005. UNOPAR,  the University of Northern Parana, has made the city of Londrina the most important center of the interior of the State of Parana in Brazil. It has campuses in three Parana towns, with nearly 16,000 students enrolled in its regular programs. It also has 252 Distance Learning sites, totaling about 60,000 students. Its Connected Presence Teaching System uses interac...   (read article)

Posted 31 October 2005. In the 1770s, Captain James Cook sailed every ocean and changed the map of the world more than anyone before or since. It is fitting that James Cook University (JCU) (www.jcu.edu.au) in tropical Queensland, Australia, sees itself in global terms. (Over a million visitors come each year to experience two World Heritage listed natural wo...   (read article)

Ajman University of Science & Technology (AUST) is a distinguished institution of higher education in the United Arab Emirates with campuses in Ajman, Abu Dhabi, Al Ain and Fujairah. Videoconferencing is used to link AUST’s network of campuses, centers and offices based in different Emirates across the UAE.

First Video Communications (FVC) has implemented a video network across AUST...   (read article)

19 July 2005. The new Library at The Open University’s main campus headquarters in Milton Keynes, UK had an eye on the demands of future technology when it recently deployed a MediaStar TV distribution and video conferencing system from Cabletime.

With CAT 6e cabling already installed in the Walton Hall HQ, The Open University was looking for a solution that could deliver TV, video, pre...   (read article)

20 July 2005. Edith Cowan University (ECU) is located in Perth, Western Australia. It is a market leader in education for the service professions with an international enrolments exceed 3,000 with students originating from more than 80 countries. ECU began as a teaching college in 1902. Today, it is Western Australia's second largest university with approximately 23,000 students.

The U...   (read article)

4 May 2005. Reliance Infocomm and Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneshwar (XIMB) have announced the launch of India’s first ever post-graduate programme in Business Management through virtual classrooms in over 100 cities via 240 Reliance WebWorld outlets.

The partnership harbingers a major breakthrough in distance learning in the country. As per the tripartite arrangement, XIMB w...   (read article)

8 November 2004. Cambridge University’s School Classics Project (CSCP) aims to to revive the place of Latin and classical culture in the British school curriculum. Today, fewer than 5% of students over the age of 11 even have access to a qualified teacher. The rest can gain a simple introduction to the subject through “e-learning” resources, including interactive documentaries and dramatization...   (read article)

Posted 27 September 2004. It is true that the University of Hull and the University of York are 40 miles apart. But their medical students manage to attend the same lectures at the same time. They even take turns asking questions of the professor. When a lecture is over, students in Hull and their fellow students in York often exchange remarks and wisecracks before returning to their physically...   (read article)

Posted 31 May 2004. The Rotterdam School of Management is part of Erasmus University in the Netherlands. The School has built up an excellent reputation, both at home and abroad, over a 25-year period. Programs offered by the School of Management are based on a well-founded teaching philosophy in which innovation plays an important role, including the intrinsic use of information and communicat...   (read article)

Posted 25 March 2004. Universita degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, or Piemonte University, is a prominent institute of higher learning headquartered in Novara, Italy. The University has campuses and associated hospitals around the country. In order to offer its own staff on-site professional training courses for nurses and physiotherapists it chose videoconferencing. The courses are integrate...   (read article)

3 December 2003.  France’s Picardie regional university network operates over an existing broadband regional network connected to the RENATER network, the French National 2.5 Gigabyte network meeting national requirements of Education and Research.

The Picardie network includes the deployment of numerous VCON endpoints (MediaConnect 9000 for group conferencing; Escort and ViGO for ...   (read article)

18 December  2003. Central Queensland University Central Queensland University (CQU) is one of Australia’s most innovative and richly diverse universities. More than a dozen learning facilities and campuses are situated along the east coast of Australia, the Pacific and South-East Asia. CQU    is one of the country’s leading provider of tertiary education to overseas stu...   (read article)

15 October 2002.  Texas Tech University, a public research university with its main campus in Lubbock, Texas, has deployed Polycom’s ClassStation(tm) interactive video communications solution to facilitate its state-of-the-art distance-learning program.

ClassStation integrates all of the software and hardware components integral to a comprehensive video communications-enabled clas...   (read article)

June 2002. The University of Notre Dame has standardized on Polycom`s industry-leading ViewStation(r) video communications systems and Video Multipoint Control Unit (MCU) to facilitate its Executive Education programs. Notre Dame`s prestigious Mendoza College of Business is able to deliver its Executive MBA program well beyond its campus location in South Bend, Indiana through the use of intera...   (read article)