"This is e-learning for the YouTube audience, " said Big Think president and co-founder Peter Hopkins.
It also spun off e-learning and merger-advisory activities, in which it is keeping a small stake.
Valerie Thompson of the E-Learning Foundation says children without home internet "lose out big time".
Valerie Thompson of the E-learning foundation called for the education system to embrace technology.
From training and e-learning to simple sales challenges, gaming is adding value in unsuspected areas.
The four 'em's of e-learning, e-government, e-commerce, e-medicine are old hat to so many in the West.
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"I think the biggest single provider of e-learning is going to be AOL (AOL) Time Warner, " says Aldridge.
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Information and communication technologies (ICT) are making a large impact in the move towards e-learning in recent years.
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Mannaz uses virtual coaching and e-learning modules as a component of their courses, minimizing the need for travel.
It can also follow occupations and industries, such as e-learning, that don't have their own category in government tallies.
Belief in e-learning, as it is often called, has so far weathered the downturn in the wider dotcom world.
The charity, E-Learning Foundation, extracted the data on computer ownership and internet access for families with children aged under 18.
We ended up not getting the funding we needed and did not sell any e-learning tools to the schools we visited.
One who shares that feeling is Mona Abdel Fattah Younes, an Egyptian e-learning specialist working in Doha, the capital city of Qatar.
In addition to cell towers and transmission lines, Roshan has constructed and financed playgrounds, sports facilities, e-learning centers, and schools all over Afghanistan.
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Mike Taylor, of e-learning company Equiinet, said schools should be allowed to spend their "e-learning credits" on hardware that would run such media-rich materials.
While early FTTH services were concentrated in cities, said Mr Helsen, many more were reaching out to rural areas for e-health and e-learning projects.
The Indian Institute of Technology has developed a methodology combining e-learning and direct contact session in remote centres across the country to train teachers.
That audience is attractive to e-learning companies -- from correspondence programs that have hopped online to Net-only operations peddling curricula by the month or by the course.
As e-learning becomes mainstream, managing partner at California-based Velocity Venture Capital Jack Crawford notes that schools and, in particular, universities are pouring tremendous resources into technology.
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When "e-learning" does take hold over the next two years, however, education will become a continuing process, as companies educate their employees via the Internet, Chambers said.
According to the E-Learning Foundation this translates to a total of 750, 000 school age children living in households with no internet, and some 650, 000 without a computer.
Asked about how different such e-learning centres would be from community multimedia centres, he explained that the e-learning centres would be solar-powered, genuinely community-led, and dependent on local expertise.
Overall, most children (89%) can get on to the internet via a computer at home but according to E-Learning Foundation this figure masks a divide between rich and poor.
At the Centres, youths can study e-learning modules including the Microsoft Digital Literary Curriculum , as well as take accredited courses in both business and entrepreneurial and technical skills.
Prize is awarded to the North Catholic University Foundation in Antioquia, Colombia for its Virtual Assisted Literacy Programme, which uses e-learning to improve technology skills and employment opportunities in marginalized communities.
Valerie Thompson from the E-Learning Foundation, which aims to provide learning technologies to children both at home and at school, said that while will.i.am's donation was "fantastic", there remained "a very significant challenge".
From the 1980s, when computer-based education started to be delivered through CD-ROMs, e-learning has boomed, paving the way for several private players and government agencies which create and deliver e-learning systems today.
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With e-learning sites offering students access to the best teachers without having to call in at their institutional home, there is a danger that the universities' academic superstars may choose to go solo.
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