Contact: Bob Ratliff
A Mississippi State web site is being included among the best higher education sites in North America.
Maintained by the university's Office of Information Technology Services, www.its.msstate.edu won third-place honors at the recent 2000 North American Conference on Web-Based Learning in New Brunswick, Canada.
First place in the higher education category went to Canada's University of Alberta Extension web site, while Rio Salado College in Tempe Ariz., finished second. The University of California, Los Angles' main web site received an honorable mention.
"The purpose of the competition is to recognize web sites that are easy to use, attractive and, above all, advance learning," said ITS office head Mike Rackley. "We feel our site does an excellent job of fulfilling those objectives, as well as meeting the criteria for making innovative use of technology."
Held each fall since 1995, the conference is sponsored by the extension and summer session department at Canada's University of New Brunswick.