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The Stanford Singapore Partnership, which enables students and professors in environmental engineering to collaborate on research projects, will allow 15 to 20 Singaporean graduate students to spend a summer quarter at Stanford and three quarters in Singapore taking Stanford classes through distance learning arrangements. Read the Full Article
More and more USC engineering students are not coming to campus, and no one seems to mind. Read the Full Article
The distance learning program highlights Hilton Hawaii’s three properties, the Hilton Hawaiian Village and Doubletree Alana in Waikiki and the Hilton Waikoloa Village on the Big Island. But its five courses or modules also answer questions about the state and correct common misconceptions, Hilton said this week. Read the Full Article
Next week at the semi-annual conference of The Council of Hotel and Restaurant Trainers (CHART), Harvard Business School Publishing, the highly regarded publisher of premier online leadership and management programs, and Monical’s Pizza will present how eLearning has helped Monical’s obtain one of the highest retention rates in the industry. Read the Full Article
FOR RELEASE: March 10, 2003 Contact: Stephanie Babyak or Jane Glickman, (202) 401-1576 U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige today hailed the launch of Western Governors University’s (WGU) new online competency-based Teachers College, which offers accredited certificate, undergraduate and graduate academic degrees for current and prospective teachers.The Teachers College can be found on the Web […]
For classroom teachers, the amount of time required to develop and implement high-quality online learning environments (including thorough curriculum research and systematic design, implementation, and testing of evaluation prototypes) amounts to a serious opportunity cost for the supporting school that often is overlooked by school administrators. Read the Full Article
Date: Monday, March 10, 2003 Time: 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Location: Office of U.S. Secretary of Education Rodney Paige Federal Office Building 6 400 Maryland Avenue, S.W. Washington, D.C. (C St. Entrance, check in at security desk) The Teachers College of Western Governors University was created with a $10 million grant from the U.S. […]
http://www.ed.gov/free/new.html Health & safety “Emergency Planning” is a one-stop website offering information that can help school leaders plan for any emergency, including natural disasters, violent incidents, & terrorist acts. Excerpts from a soon-to-be-published model “emergency response” crisis management plan" are also available. (ED, HS) http://www.ed.gov/free/new.html Language arts “Middle English Texts” offers lyrics, tales, & other […]
The site, www.ed.gov/emergencyplan, offers information about how to develop plans for any emergency. The site was unveiled March 7 at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Md., which has a strong emergency plan in place.Read the Full Article
MALVERN, Pa. – March 7, 2003 – SCT (NASDAQ: SCTC) today announced it would unveil a new Enterprise Information Access Initiative for higher education at SCT Summit, the Company’s annual user conference being held next week in New Orleans. The three-phased approach will help institutions harness their vast amounts of siloed administrative information, analyze factors […]