With its vast bag of technological tricks, the Web can offer a multimedia approach potentially equal to the very best-equipped classrooms in the world. Oracle is banking on that model. The company unveiled a hosted learning-management system, called Oracle iLearning. Designed to assemble, deploy, and track learning content, iLearning includes self-service capabilities for enrollment and catalog development, as well as online discussion groups for informal learning. Columbia U. Opens a 'Beta Version' of Its Site Fathom, the for-profit knowledge company started by Columbia University, has opened what officials are calling a beta version of the Fathom Web site, which offers 450 feature articles and 80,000 reference articles.
Technology marches on.
The Web is Transforming the University. This man runs the largest private university in the United States. You may never have heard of the University of Phoenix, but it's using the power of the Internet to lay siege to the ivory tower. To its students, UOP is a godsend. To critics, it's sacrilege.