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Increasing compliance threats across the United States have prompted Employers Group and Vubiz, two leading providers of training, to partner and create a comprehensive, eight-module eLearning program, designed to instill human resources professionals with the skills and knowledge they need to avoid costly compliance issues. The Human Resources Generalist Certificate, originally created as a California-specific […]
Contact: Susan Spilka sspilka@wiley.com (201) 748-6147 Al Renshaw al.renshaw@quantumsimulations.com (800) 577-9040, Ext. 201 Hoboken, New Jersey, May 8, 2012/PRNewswire/-Global publisher John Wiley & Sons (NYSE: JWA and JWB), which provides content and content-enabled services for students and educators, researchers, and professional practitioners, has partnered with Quantum Simulations, Inc., a leading developer of artificial intelligence-based education […]
As director of the Navy Voluntary Education (VOLED) Program, Dr. Mary Redd-Clary is responsible for the supervision of over 180 government personnel assigned to the Virtual Education Center, the Pensacola VOLED support detachment, and 35 Navy college offices located in the continental U.S., Asia, the Middle East and Europe. She also oversees the execution of […]
In an unusual move among highly ranked traditional law schools, the Washington University Law School today unveileda fully online master’s degree program in U.S. law. The program will be designed and taught by Washington Law faculty using a platform developed by 2tor, a Maryland-based online education provider. It will begin enrolling students in January 2013. […]
When something sounds too good to be true, you check it out. So Jeana Murphy and Henry Jordan did some sleuthing when their employer, Walmart, offered to pick up part of the tab for degrees from an online university that offers flexible hours, relatively cheap tuition and college credit for on-the-job training and experience. Inside […]
Internet2 NET+ Services expand to help universities address research, education, big data and innovation challenges Arlington, VA—April 24, 2012—Internet2 and some of the nation’s most prominent high-tech firms announced today partnerships that would expedite the delivery of cloud services to college campuses nationwide, and address research, big data and innovation challenges. Internet2, the world’s most […]
Fourteen years after we first published ‘Teaching Zack to Think,’ here’s a new three-part framework for making sure students are internet savvy If you follow the dictate that we teach what we test, it’s understandable why schools haven’t spent more time preparing students to be web literate since NCLB was passed. In 1998, a 15-year-old […]
In October, Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, got a quirky request on YouTube. A hyperactive instructor in a plaid jacket posted a video inviting her to do a Skype interview with his “World Regions” geography class at Virginia Tech. Ms. Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate often compared to Nelson Mandela, might […]
The Internet takes college courses out of the classroom. But prior learning assessment takes college outside of college. The practice of granting college credit for learning and knowledge gained outside the traditional academic setting goes back decades, with roots in the G.I. Bill and World War II veterans who earned credits for military training. Inside […]
Arlington, VA (May 2, 2012) — LATINO AMERICANS, a three-part, six-hour documentary series produced by WETA Washington, D.C.; Bosch and Company, Inc.; and Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB), will air nationwide on PBS in the Fall of 2013, the production partners announced today. LATINO AMERICANS will chronicle the lives and experiences of Latinos in the United […]