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Updates on: Capella University, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Bainbridge College, One Laptop Per Child

The Minnesota Tekne Awards named Capella University (www.capella.edu), an accredited, fully online university based in Minneapolis, the winner in its Technology User category at an award ceremony last night at the Minneapolis Convention Center. — PR USA

MC Strategies announced today that USA Prepare, its emergency preparedness unit, and the Allied Health Sciences School at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas will distribute UT Southwestern’s online lectures to emergency medical technicians and paramedics via www.JEMSprepare.com. — PR Web  

Bainbridge College (BC), which offers many online courses in a variety of subjects and is part of the Georgia ONmyLINE initiative of the University System of Georgia (USG), is observing Nov. 12-16 as National Distance Learning Week. — Bainbridge College

The city of Birmingham, Ala., has purchased more than 15,000 laptops from the One Laptop Per Child organization. — Mass High Tech