Archive for the ‘Open Learning’ Category

Treasury Department Announces Office of Financial Education

The Treasury Department today announced the establishment of the Office of Financial Education (OFE) as part of its ongoing effort to improve financial education for all Americans. The OFE will develop and implement financial education policy initiatives, and will oversee and coordinate Treasury’s outreach efforts. Secretary Paul O’Neill has made financial education a focus at […]

Rural Relations: Pradeep Lokhande Connects Indian Villages

But more so is the fact that he hasn’t stopped at just travelling or documentation. He has used his travels to learn about the great digital divide between rural and urban India and is working towards taking computers to 28,000 village schools. Since February 2000, he has already installed 102 used computers, the first one […]

Home schools on their own

Sonoma County will stop filing mandatory paperwork for home-schooling families, highlighting the tenuous relationship that exists between them and the state’s public education system. Read the Full Article

Many seniors avoid the snare of the Net

On a frigid February morning, Willard Lloyd circles the pool table, contemplating both his next shot and his ingrained status as an Internet holdout. Read the Full Article

Video link to keep kids learning in hospital

More children in hospital will be able to stay on top of their schoolwork thanks to a £250,000 investment in the internet.

PBS Commits More Air Time To Kids With A New Block Of Programs And New Specials In 2002

Continuing its mission to provide quality educational programming for chiPldren, PBS today unveiled new additions to its PBS KIDS roster.

Why Movies Make Readers

When a book becomes a movie, a child’s relationship to the page does not have to suffer. Quite the opposite

Home schoolers make the transition, and the grades, at Vanderbilt

Vanderbilt is known for attracting the brightest students from top high schools across the country. However, amongst the students who were among the finest in their class is a small group of equally sharp students who may have never set foot in a traditional classroom. Perhaps to the surprise of many, a handful of home-schooled […]

Universal Music, Penguin in learning venture

Penguin Putnam, Inc. and Universal Music Group today launched InsideSessions, a joint venture that creates entertaining and informative distance learning programs for people who aspire to break into the music or book publishing industries. Phyllis Grann, chief executive officer and president of Penguin Putnam, Inc., and Doug Morris, chairman and CEO of Universal Music Group, […]

McGraw-Hill Lifetime Learning and Monster.com Partner to Offer Career Seekers Unique Online Learning Resource

McGraw-Hill Lifetime Learning (MHLL), a leading provider of high-quality e-learning solutions for the corporate training market, announced today that it has partnered with Monster.com, the leading global online careers site and flagship brand of TMP Worldwide Inc. (NASDAQ: TMPW – news), to make its extensive skills training library available on MonsterLearning (www.monsterlearning.com). MonsterLearning’s search engine, […]