Archive for the ‘Open Learning’ Category

Adult school offering new flexible classes

Thanks to state regulations that allow for more innovative instructional programs, the school is offering the classes through its new distance-learning program. Read the Full Article

Students Going Home Again — for Learning

What do you do when it’s back to school time and your kids aren’t going “back” to any school? Read the Full Article

Dear Career Adviser:

I’m trying to think of new avenues to explore, since I don’t seem to be developing any traction in the standard commercial markets. – Any Thoughts? Read The Full Article

PGA of America launches Network PGA education program

Technology 101 is a free online education program that allows PGA Professionals to earn up to 10 continuing education (CE) hours. Read The Full Article

Television shapes college choices

While there have been concerns about the decline in popularity of traditional subjects such as modern languages and engineering, there are other new courses which are benefiting from television exposure. Read The Full Article

U.S Farm Bill & Dairy Options Focus Of Penn State Satellite Downlink

The satellite broadcast will be offered from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 6 and will be available nationwide on the KU and C bands. Read The Full Article

Army boosts distance learning

The BCTP selected mGen Inc.’s Enterprise solution to enable soldiers in the Army National Guard brigades to take classes remotely, thereby increasing their warfighting skills prior to arriving at Fort Leavenworth for in-person training seminars, said Maj. Floyd Lucas of Operations Group C at the base. Read The Full Article

Keep up or lose licence, doctors here told

They need to chalk up 50 points over the next two years, and can do this a number of ways, including taking part in half-day workshops, which will give them two points, or by publishing papers in medical journals, which will give them up to 10 points. Read The Full Article

Not Just Closing a Divide, but Leaping It

For five weeks, he had toiled over a game of his own, Buzz, pitting a wasp against swarms of increasingly troublesome foes. The development laboratory was not a company cubicle or a computer geek’s bedroom. For Dennis, 16, it was a clubhouse in Albuquerque created to help young people in low-income areas apply digital skills […]

Parenting in Cyberspace

In fact, today’s kids can do all of the above simultaneously. Using a PC, many young people exchange instant messages, surf their favorite Web sites and blast their Ashanti CD, even while they perform heroic feats in an online game. Read the Full Article