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E-Learning dates back the better part of 100 years to 1922, when Pennsylvania State College broadcast courses over the radio.

Today’s e-Learners can study everything from souffle making to surgery, and British Columbia is at the leading edge in the field.

E-Learning isn’t simply signing up for an online course instead of sitting in a classroom. It encompasses a wide and varied range of learning all driven by technology.

It could be the University of B.C.’s distance medical education — a first for Canada that is seeing students from around the province studying in virtual classrooms that deliver the same education and credentials, regardless of whether they are in Prince George or at the Point Grey campus.
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Online classes, whether at Portland State or elsewhere, carry the allure of convenience. Outside of the classroom, students can kick back after a long day, a plate of warm homemade cookies at their side, and listen to a biology lecture. Here’s a little information about how the how process works.

For students who haven’t taken online classes at PSU before, the first thing to do is obtain an ODIN account from the Office of Information Technologies, located in the basement of the Smith Memorial Student Union (room 18).

Students need to use their ODIN account, used with PSU’s online learning system Blackboard, for things like registering for Web classes and getting course assignments.

Enrolling in an online class is done the same way as registering for non-Web classes. Students can look up classes online at banweb.pdx.edu or the PSU Web site. » Read the rest of the entry..

Rio Salado Community College, based in Tempe, is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, and its president is celebrating an anniversary of her own.

In fact, every year is an anniversary for Linda Thor, because each year she can celebrate being the most senior president in the 10-college Maricopa Community College district.

Thor came to the Maricopa colleges in 1990, having served 16 years in the Los Angeles Community College District. She said that when she got the job at Rio Salado, which she describes as a “college without walls,” she knew it was because innovation in education was something with which she was very familiar. » Read the rest of the entry..

Think of an Indian Institute of Management (IIM) or Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) graduate, and the first thing to come to mind is a plush job either in investment banking, consultancy or IT. However, the likes of Vardan Kabra and Ankita Diwekar-Kabra — students of IIM-Ahmedabad 2004 batch — are changing this thinking.

This duo conceptualised the Fountainhead Education Foundation — a custom-designed pre-school and childcare centre in Surat for children between the age of one and five adapted from internationally renowned methods.

“I got a Rs 7 lakh pre-placement offer from Procter and Gamble (P & G). But neither did I take it up nor sit for the placements. I believe that quality education should be a big business. There are not enough choices for students when it comes to schools and colleges today. And most want to get into whatever the limited options are available. The problem is that there is not enough competition.

The moment there is competition in this sector, it will undergo significant changes, like the telecom industry,” Vardan says.
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AllAfrica - Ikechukwu Chukwu has been a teacher for seven years, but that was not his original plan because he did not train to be one. Having read Bio-Chemistry at the University of Calabar, Cross River State; he was searching “for greener pastures”, he says, when he, literally, ‘contacted ICT’ following his employment in the Administrative Department of an IT firm in Port Harcourt .

A series of trainings followed and in five years, he became a Systems Analyst. He was later employed as a Systems Analyst by the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Education Department and deployed to the Government Science and Technical College , Garki, Abuja. Today, he teaches Computer Studies in the school.

Deputy Head Teacher Ronald Ddungu trained as a Mathematics teacher and teaches the subject in senior classes One to Six (Age 13 to 19) at Gayaza High School in Kampala , ‘Uganda’ . He has taught for 16 years, but began to use ICT only three years ago. “I learnt by observing and applying. I was fascinated by people who wrote and put things on the internet and inspired to do the same. Now I have my own website that I am putting together”, he says. His contact with the International Education and Research Network of Teachers, based in the United States , gave him the opportunity to participate in a Teachers Forum, a one-month on-line course, where participants were taught how to use projects to teach. » Read the rest of the entry..

The University of Massachusetts has struck an agreement with Chinese officials to become the first foreign university to offer government-sanctioned online classes in China.

The agreement announced Monday gives the university an exclusive window to offer the classes for the next five years. Officials said the new program eventually could serve 5,000 students a year, generating up to $5 million a year for the university.

The agreement with China’s Continuing Education Association and Cernet Education, a distance-learning company, would provide the University of Massachusetts’s highly regarded distance classes and degree programs to students at Tsinghua University in Beijing. The University of Massachusetts plans to offer 40 online courses, four certificate programs, and one master’s degree program within a year. » Read the rest of the entry..

Anyone regardless of age can learn to speak Spanish. There are many different online Spanish language courses such as Rocket Spanish that can teach you how to speak and read Spanish online.

I highly recommend Rocket Spanish If you want to learn Spanish language online. Mauricio Evlampieff, the creator of Rocket Spanish has created an online Spanish learning course that can help you speak and read Spanish in less than 3 months.

Good online Spanish language courses such as Rocket Spanish have intensive audio programs that guide students in the various aspects of the language such as grammar and vocabulary. In the beginning you will be taught basic vocabulary and correct sentence structure. Later on, you will be taught more complex words and phrases. They also have drills and exercises that help students retain and fully understand lessons. By the end of the course, you will be able to construct sentences and use them in the right situations. This means you will be able to communicate effectively in Spanish with anyone.
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