Topic - learning

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Finance

FastStats: Web Traffic Trends

Interest in gas prices, realty leads April surfing; hefty growth for distance learning; social networking chugs along.
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Media

Gaming’s Serious Side

It’s not just killing dragons and stealing cars.
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Archives

Learning to love the FDA

Industry loves to blame the Food and Drug Administration for the slow pace of drug approval. But as in any relationship, both parties are at fault.
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Archives, Magazine

Is our children learning?

Each year more than $5 billion is spent on computers in the classroom. But it's the tech companies that benefit.
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Archives

Top Deal: Carnegie Learning scores $14 million

The company faces an uphill battle against the entrenched textbook industry. But if its teaching software can really boost test scores, it may help change the way students learn.
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Archives, Magazine

Heard from the buy side: Investing in e-learning

Our lesson for today: the online education industry.
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Archives, Magazine

Can we bank on e-learning?

Can we bank on e-learning?
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Archives, Magazine

Cramming with e-learning advocates

Learning-management firms want to handle all of a company's online training. Can they pass the test?
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Archives

Wide Learning receives $19M lesson

Wide Learning receives $19M lesson
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Archives

E-learning firms cram for European test

Because U.S.-style MBAs are not au courant on the Continent, online education companies will have to find a different way to break into the European market.
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Archives

Street Talk: Wall Street examines e-learning

Street Talk: Wall Street examines e-learning
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Archives

VCs are learning to love Internet education

HighWired.com is the latest in a flurry of VC deals targeting the online education market.
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Archives, Magazine

PLAY LEARNING

John Kernan woos teachers and wins over children by using the Sony PlayStation as an educational platform.
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Archives, Magazine

IS THERE A MARKET FOR LEARNING SOFTWARE?

The authors of KidWare, a forthcoming guidebook to children's software, propose that the home is the right market for education software.
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Archives, Magazine

WHAT MAKES FOR GOOD LEARNING SOFTWARE

Editors find that many of the educational software titles are nothing but shovelware, but offer criteria for turning out better programs.