Joslin Diabetes Center, global leader in diabetes research, care and education, announced today a new free educational tool on its Web site — the Staying Healthy with Diabetes video series. The set of six short videos gives people with diabetes important information about the regular tests they need to have done to live a [...]
As early voting gets under way across North Carolina, the nonpartisan N.C. Center for Voter Education has created a free online voter guide.
Available at http://www.ncvoterguide.org, the guide features candidates for U.S. Congress and the N.C. General Assembly, along with contenders for the N.C. Supreme Court and N.C. Court of Appeals. The guide includes information on [...]
Capella University (www.capella.edu), an accredited online university and a leader in online education, has released its latest podcast, which features an interview with Robin Bundy, a former sewage plant laborer who was awarded a $15,000 Women in Technology scholarship from the Michigan Council of Women in Technology (MCWT). Bundy received her bachelor’s degree in IT [...]
Continuing to prepare students for living in a multicultural 21st century, Goshen president Jim Brenneman announced Wednesday morning that the college has received a $12.5 million grant from the Lilly Endowment.
The grant, the largest single grant Goshen College has received, will be used for the development of a Center for Intercultural Teaching and Learning to [...]
When world-renowned economist and Stanford professor Dr. Paul Romer launched online educational course company Aplia, Inc. (http://www.aplia.com) in 2000, he did so for the most basic of reasons. “I wanted my students to learn more.” Now six years later and with over 350,000 students at over 450 college and university campuses having submitted over 170 [...]
Northcentral University (www.ncu.edu), a leader in accredited 100% online education programs for those seeking bachelor’s, master’s or doctoral degrees, announced today that the NCU Board of Directors has appointed Dr. Claudia Santin to the position of President of Northcentral University. “It is my pleasure to announce Dr. Santin’s appointment, and I am confident she will [...]
South Korea’s market for online learning is expected to grow rapidly by the year 2010, boosted by people’s passion for education and the country’s information technology infrastructure, a report said Thursday.
South Korea’s market for e-learning is forecast to rise to 1.9 trillion won (US$1.99 billion) for the full year of 2006 and expand at an [...]
IMPRESSIONS University — an online learning program designed to meet the continuing education needs of commercial embroiderers, screen printers, promotional products distributors and others in the decorated apparel industry — launches this month.
Developed by IMPRESSIONS and EMB magazines in association with the JER Group Inc., the IMPRESSIONS University catalog offers instructor-led and self-directed online courses [...]
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c42134) has announced the addition of eCME: Leveraging Online Continuing Medical Education as a Channel of Influence to their offering.
The changing nature of CME has caused the pharmaceutical industry to reassess its investment in CME. While more restrictive guidelines and increased oversight may persuade many companies to decrease their investments in CME, [...]
Kim Ju-myung(13), a first grader of Okjong Junior High School in a country town surrounded by Mount Jiri in Hadong, Gyeongnam Province, is looking forward to having the second round of online English education through the screen which starts from September 12.
Kim and 22 first and second graders of this school became very confident in [...]