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Students on 12 American Indian pueblos in New Mexico soon will be able to earn a degree from New Mexico State University without ever leaving home, and tribal leaders are hopeful that this will mean a workforce better equipped to manage burgeoning tribal businesses.

NMSU's "Digital Pathways" program, a $2 million expansion of the university's distance-education offerings, is a collaboration between NMSU, the Southwest Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI) and the New Mexico Tribal Higher Education Commission.

For most of the pueblos, it will be the first time college courses have been offered online to their residents. Distance education centers will begin opening this fall on the Cochiti, Acoma, Laguna and Santa Domingo pueblos as well as the cluster known as the Eight Northern Pueblos, which includes Tesque, San Ildefonso, Pojoaque, Santa Clara, Nambe, Ohkay Owingeh (formerly known as San Juan), Picuris and Taos.

When any of the 3,000 folks who work in the Cal-EPA high-rise in downtown Sacramento take their mandatory building safety class, they no longer trudge to a conference room for a 90-minute group session.

Instead they log onto a Web site where they can see 3-D diagrams and interior building photos, view emergency exits and evacuation plans, and even take an online quiz on what they've viewed.

The online training at the California Environmental Protection Agency building is aimed at more efficiently preparing employees to react to fires, earthquakes, bomb threats, medical emergencies and even stalled elevators.

As one of the eight CATA Award Winners, iotum was recognized for its intelligent call filtering, prioritizing and routing application and its Pronto Conference Calling application.

The Relevance Engine is the world's first smart platform to intelligently assess the relevance of any call, and automatically route that call to the most appropriate destination.

Iotum intelligently filters, ranks, and prioritizes calls based on their relevance to you. Using your contextual information and preferences, iotum knows who's calling, whether you want to take the call, and which phone you want to use.

Cartoonist Scott Adams, creator of the famous "Dilbert(TM)" cartoon strip, recently used Cisco Unified MeetingPlace(R) to draw and collaborate with a nationwide audience, highlighting the potential of Cisco(R) Unified Communications to improve collaboration and illustrating how the network can serve as a platform for life's experiences.

By seamlessly integrating voice and Web conferencing capabilities, the rich-media conferencing solution allowed approximately 100 Cisco customers and partners to brainstorm with Scott Adams and watch as he developed their ideas into a Dilbert cartoon strip.

(Editor's note: See Scott Adams using Cisco Unified MeetingPlace to create a cartoon strip at: http://newsroom.cisco.com/video/dilbert.html.)

China has a vision of lifelong learning in which information and communication technologies -based (ICTs) distance education and electronic learning are key components.

China now has three of the world’s mega-universities, institutions in which over 100,000 students use largely distance learning methods. It hopes its strategy for promoting lifelong learning will be adopted worldwide.

A chapter in a joint publication from the Commonwealth of Learning and UNESCO describes how China’s Ministry of Education is actively promoting innovative forms of distance education (DE).

CNN has announced the launch of six online video podcasts, regularly updated newscasts and programming produced specifically for digital video players.

The video podcasts, in addition to CNN's audio podcasting products, are available for free at www.CNN.com/podcasting and at iTunes.

CNN.com senior VP, GM David Payne says, "For the most part, the podcasting audience skews much younger than CNN's television viewers and, perhaps surprisingly, somewhat younger than even users of CNN.com.

They were raised during the age of the Internet, not that of the 6 o'clock news. They don't necessarily want to see polished newscasts, but they want to see the action and make judgments for themselves. So we have produced original podcasts in a format that appeals to their fast-paced lifestyles and varied interests."

eSATS, a 501©(3) organization composed of education stakeholders and civic entrepreneurs, has announced that Arizona Senate President Ken Bennett's Arizona Senate Bill 1512, the elearning centered schools bill, has been signed into law by Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano.

SB1512 is the key piece of legislation to begin Arizona’s statewide transformation of K-12 education through eLearning.

The new law paves the way for a Digital Curriculum Institute, a statewide cadre of Educational Technologists, an eLearning Teacher Professional Development and Education Institute, a statewide Data Warehouse, full deployment of statewide broadband access, mentor teachers, and tech support on every campus.

eSATs leader say Arizona will, in 10 years, catapult itself into the top five states in the country in K-12 education.

Lizard Protector, ensures your elearning course content (HTML, images and flash files) cannot be distributed to unauthorized users. It controls what authorized users can do with them, for how long and when.

LockLizard Protector has been specifically designed to stop elearning courses from being pirated. It prevents unauthorized users from accessing course content, and controls what authorized users can do with it (copy, share, print for example) and for how long.

“Corporate e-learning is one of the fastest-growing sectors within the education market," says KPMG Consulting. "Huge benefits will accrue when content flows seamlessly - often over mobile networks - throughout industry value chains."

IDC forecast that the global e-learning market is worth some $23bn. Gartner says: "The e-learning market is poised for explosive growth."

The cream of digital media gathered at New York's Cipriani restaurant last week for the Webbys, otherwise known as the online Oscars, to see winners including Google Earth, MySpace.com and ... National Public Radio.

NPR's already a powerhouse podcaster and it plans to add broadband video in the second half of 2007.

Yes, 36-year-old NPR scooped up five awards, more than any other broadcaster, reward for sweeping changes that have transformed it from a cash-strapped public broadcaster to a bona fide digital-media force to be reckoned with. Next up? Video.

Despite its history as a publicly funded, largely commercial-free radio network, it's also one of the few traditional-media companies to figure out how to convert podcasts into ad dollars.

Podcast.com launched the first comprehensive collection of podcasts about the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Now worldwide fans of both podcasts and soccer can enjoy reports from and about the world's largest sporting event with the unique perspectives of podcasters from around the world.

This Podcast.com showcase features audio and video podcasts created by and for fans of the World Cup experience, highlighting matches, celebrations, and everything in-between. The site is available at http://worldcup.podcast.com as a free service to football fans around the globe.

Webinar Success today announced availability of the internet's only search facility dedicated solely to online webcasts.

WebEventSearch.com is a free online search engine listing webinars, webcasts, podcasts, and streaming web content. Users and content providers can access the site at www.webeventsearch.com.

Unlike results returned by automated search engines such as Google™ search, WebEventSearch.com constantly filters and updates its listings to ensure that only current, available events are returned.

Unique search fields give users the ability to find events based on topic category, presenting companies, presenter names, event dates, keywords, and other event-specific details.