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Improve your networking skills by learning from other professionals

Without effective and proper networking techniques, you may not be maximizing your time while attending events or when reaching out to other professionals. While people have their own networking style that works for them, it may not work for others. You need to do what works best for you and your personality. At the same time, it never hurts to learn new ideas about networking from other...

Distance-Learning Remote Laboratories using LabVIEW

Laboratories, which are found in all engineering and science programs, are an essential part of the education experience. Not only do laboratories demonstrate course concepts and ideas, but they also bring the course theory alive so students can see how unexpected events and natural phenomena affect real-world measurements and control algorithms. However, equipping a laboratory...

Learning from the big boys: With technology, women urged to go gradual

That was one of the messages to come out of the recent Wisconsin program, where women-owned businesses were encouraged to le...

Video game learning has no traction in K-12

Someday, the curriculum for physics, history, engineering, or management classes could be delivered through computerized simulations, an idea that some members of the <a href="http://w...

TechnoJungle to highlight learning, innovation

Others call it the ambition gap. Whatever the label, they are referring to the dearth of American youth actively pursuing careers in the so-called STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) disciplines, an ominous trend that, if left unchecked, will negatively impact the future of technol...

Gaming conference explores interactive media in learning

What's less apparent is the possibility that this language may be vital to the future of education. This possibility was the...

Learning to swim in the global talent pool

Global trade has been around since the days of Marco Polo, if not well before. It started with goods - at first raw materials and then progressed to finished products. Next came financial capital. In more recent times, trade in services and increasingly labor and knowledge work have gone global. What's different today from the past is the immense scale, scope and dy...

Schmidt rejoins Renaissance Learning

Schmidt, 51, left the Wisconsin Rapids-based education software developer in January to pursue another opportunity. He had served as executive vice president and senior vice pre...

Renaissance Learning CEO resigns to start company

"There is never a right time to make a change like this," Hickey said in a press release. "I know some people will be...

Augmented reality brings a new dimension to learning

, an assistant professor at the UW-Madison School of Education, hopes to bring a new dimension to education and learning with "augmented reality" games, which combine aspects of physical activity, traditional reading and mat...

Renaissance Learning will expand in Dallas and cut back California and Madison

, Inc., a provider of computerized assessment and progress monitoring tools for pre-K-12 schools and districts, will expand its Dallas field sales office and add a training and certification office center for all Renaissance product solutions. Renaissance Learning also plans to adjust space needs at oth...

Tech Digest: Merge eMed product updates; Renaissance Learning 3rd qtr results

, a Merge Healthcare company and a leading medical imaging software and services company, today announced the release of eFilm Workstation 2.1 and its plug-in Advanced Visualization and Clinical Application software modules. This latest release of the widely used deskt...

PDAs add new dimension to distance learning

It's learning that can engage diverse audiences - from uncommunicative high school students to members of the Armed Forces - in methods that can blend reality with artificial scenarios. That vision of a fully mobile future was one of the topics discussed at...

Schrage: Don't think of distance learning as just automation

Schrage, a research associate at MIT Media Lab and...

Bringing distance learning alive

That's the message of Katherine "Kit" Horton, a partner in the Denver-based "Wh...

Renaissance Learning issues dividend

Net income stood at $7.3 million, or 24 cents per share, a de...

Renaissance Learning merges with California firm

Renaissance Learning, headquartered in Wisconsin Rapids, provides monitoring systems used by more than 67,000 schools. The...

Renaissance Learning increases net, still plans merger

The company also declared a quarterly cash dividend of $.05 per share, payable June 1, 200...

Renaissance Learning sells unprofitable subsidiary

Generation21 lost $4.6 million before taxes on $2.6 million in sales in 2004. Renaissance Learning said it had looked for strategic alternatives over the past few years and decided t...

IQ Academies brings online learning into Wisconsin homes

Through Feburary 25, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction will foot the bill if high-school students enroll in a school outside their districts, including a completely online program offered by the Waukesha district called the IQ Academies, the largest accredited online high school in the state, is in its second y...

Tech Digest: Futurists on learning; Sonic Foundry; Accu Tech; Fiserv

. The futurists meet at the Fluno Center in Madison. Based on her experience at the <...

Inacom named Microsoft's favorite learning solutions partner of the year

was recently named Worldwide Learning Solutions Partner of the Year at the <a target="blank" href="http://www.microsoft.com/partner/events/wwp...

Learning how far your message reaches by Googling yourself

I have a huge media department. Its almost an entire hanging file folder in my office and an electronic folder...

Charter Business powers distance learning

Source: KSCADE MADISON For many years, distance education was associated with television commercials promising degrees in fields such as nursing, locksmithing and gunsmithing, all earned over the mail, from home. This is...

Tech Council passes E-Learning efforts for Northern Wisconsin

ASHLAND, Wis. In a bid to spark creation of technology-based businesses and jobs in a largely rural part of the state, the A resolution supporting creation of a task force to push for the c...

University of Wisconsin team creates learning games

MADISON, Wis. The University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Educational Psychology has teamed up with the UW Systems "The Department's <a href=" http://www.soemadison.wisc.edu/edpsych/gradprog/gradprog.htm"...

UW Medical School to build Health Sciences Learning Center

MADISON The Part of this is about creating the future of medicine, said <a hre...

Web-Based Learning Developed under new Chief Education Officer

Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. Renaissance Learning, a provider of school improvement programs and learning information systems for educators, announced Saturday the appointment of Arthur Stellar to the newly created position of chief education officer. Stellar plans to lead the development of Renaissance Place, an integrated, Web-based information system that allows educators to monitor progr...

GameBased Learning Strategies

MADISON-WI. - The Wisconsin Technology Network recently interviewed Kurt Squire, Ph.D , a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher about his work in games and education, and how the principles behind learning a game can be used in academics. Kurt Squire, Ph.D., was recently hired at the University of Wisconsin-Madiso...

The Learning Game - Researchers Study Video Gaming Principles that Apply to Education

The Wisconsin Technology Network recently interviewed two University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers about their work in games and education, and how the principles behind learning a game can be used in academics. The first interview is with Dr. James Gee. , is a professor of Curriculum a...

Learning from the Big Guys

When beginning a brand new startup or building a small company, entrepreneurs need to fully understand the challenges of attracting, and more importantly, keeping good employees. Providing the economic incentive for all employees to share in the wealth-building process has been the cornerstone for many successful companies during the last fifteen years in American business. Understanding what new...