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Updates on: Project Tomorrow Survey deadline extended, expectations for growing demand for elearning products, New Zealand’s virtual teacher

Project Tomorrow has extended the deadline for its 2007 Speak Up survey, a poll conducted annually to assess views on current issues in education, with results shared with state and federal policy leaders. The new deadline has been extended by a week and set to Dec. 21. — T.H.E. Journal

In the United States, the demand for self-paced electronic learning products will hit $13.6 billion by the end of 2007 and will continue to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 22.01 percent over the next five years, according to a new forecast from Ambient Insight detailed in report entitled, “The U.S. Market for Self-paced eLearning Products and Services: 2007-2012 Forecast and Analysis.” — Campus Technology

New Zealand computer scientists have developed Eve, an affective tutoring system (ATS) which can adapt its response to the emotional state of children by interaction through a computer system. This project has been led by Dr Hossein Sarrafzadeh, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the Auckland-based Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences (IIMS).– ZDNet Blogs