Archive for the ‘Open Learning’ Category

BOCES’ ever-evolving vocation

BOCES’ ever-evolving vocation – Vocational training was what Rockland’s Board of Cooperative Educational Services was all about when it opened in 1961 with 15 courses and 450 students from around the county.

RTA To Launch “Digital Connections” Community Outreach Program Countywide

he San Diego Regional Technology Alliance (RTA), a local non-profit organization that supports the high tech community and promotes technology growth in the region through entrepreneur programs, community development and research, will formally launch its community technology development program, Digital Connections, at the “Rolling Out the Wires” luncheon event on Thursday, Aug. 30, from 11 […]

A Voyage to the New World of Distance Education and all of Its Opportunities

I want to alert Technology Source readers to the upcoming Global Learn Day (GLD), an event run every October on the weekend that celebrates Columbus and his landing in the New World. GLD, the largest education conference in the world, offers a convincing demonstration of worldwide, affordable, accessible education that will be common in conferences […]

Malaysia’s Internet Road Show

NAFIZAH ISMAIL had heard of the Internet, but she had never used it until one day in April when a special bus rolled up to her school, deep in Malaysia’s northern rice bowl.

Home Sweet School

The new home schoolers aren’t hermits. They are diverse parents who are getting results — and putting the heat on public schools

Homestyle Teaching: Home Schooling Is Going Mainstream

When most kids are asked about school, scenes from school buses, rows of desks and the lunchroom spring to their minds. But not for 11-year-old Stephanie Simmens and her 9-year-old sister Molly.

CYBERWOES: Fears raised over threat of computers

The Family Network Foundation and the Department of Mental Health yesterday warned of a new menace to children that threatens to break up of the family unit and dehumanise people, as well as pose health hazards: the computer.

A Fresh View Of Homeschoolers

So, who are these people? When homeschooling established itself as a significant force more than a decade ago, it sparked plenty of speculation: Who would homeschool? Were they all rich? Why wouldn’t they want to use existing schools? http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0807/p15s2-lekt.html

A fresh view of homeschoolers

So, who are these people? When homeschooling established itself as a significant force more than a decade ago, it sparked plenty of speculation: Who would homeschool? Were they all rich? Why wouldn’t they want to use existing schools?

PBS Partners with UK’s Channel 4 in Unprecedented Expedition to Find Sunken World War II Battleships “Hood” and “Bismarck” for New Specials Beginning Oct. 31

PBS and Channel 4 Provide 24-Hour Coverage of the Expedition Including Live Webcast of Underwater Filming of the Wreckage