Just what constitutes an online learning experience? Thats the question facing the Michigan Department of Education, after state legislators approved a measure requiring every Michigan high school student to have some online schooling prior to graduation.
The requirement stipulating an online experience, which was adopted March 30, along with more rigorous curricular standards across the board, [...]
Michigan has become the first state in the U.S. to require students to successfully complete an online course or learning experience under new legislation signed into law on April 20, 2006, by Governor Jennifer Granholm. This action was part of a comprehensive legislative package to revamp Michigan’s high school graduation requirements beginning with incoming eighth [...]
The Skandalaris Family Foundation will partner with Detroit Country Day School in May to offer the first Future Leaders Merit Scholarship.
Those eligible are students not currently enrolled in DCDS entering grades six through nine. The objective of the scholarship is to identify and support outstanding students who have excelled inside the classroom and in extracurricular [...]
Application Requirements/Description:
1.) All .Michigan high school seniors are eligible for this scholarship. A $500.00 scholarship will be awarded to the senior that raises the most money for Multiple Sclerosis.
2.) The Mary J. Szczepanski “Never Give Up” Scholarship was founded in 2000 to award six high school seniors at West Catholic, Catholic Central and Kenowa Hills [...]
First-of-its-Kind Grant from National Science Foundation Funds Scholarships for Data Center Training
ORANGE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–March 14, 2006–AFCOM, the leading association for data center professionals, has partnered with the Institute for Data Center Professionals (IDCP) at Marist College to award two of 30 scholarships to the IDCP’s online data center certification program for 2006, one of the [...]
Michigan education authorities and Microsoft are to create an online course to help students understand how the new global economy will impact their work lives and career opportunities.
Beginning in the 2006-2007 school year, the course aims to help students learn how the global economy is changing the nature of work in the US and the [...]
The non-profit Michael Lascaris Scholarship Trust, which annually grants 170 scholarships for the purpose of learning the English language, has begun accepting applications for the 2006-7 academic year.
The Lascaris Trust was founded in August 1999 and has to date awarded more than 1039 scholarships for the study of the English language. Lessons are conducted at [...]
Michigan schools will be able to offer a new online course that could guide students toward choosing a career and a better understanding the global economy.
The course is being designed by the Michigan Department of Education and Michigan Virtual University.
It will paid for through a 350-thousand dollar grant from Microsoft Corporation.
The course will be available [...]
Clarion University is offering three full scholarships, which cover registration, food, and board, to the third annual Chautauqua Writer’s Festival, June 15-18 at the writer’s center in Chautauqua, N.Y.
The festival is a four day event that includes intensive writing workshops, lectures, panel discussions, and reading. Award winning poets, fiction writers, and non-fiction writers will be [...]
By Karen Vignare
Blended learning is the “new” buzz in higher education. Many educational researchers have discovered that online learning environments are particularly useful for communications and collaboration. When you add in management and administrative tools available in most course management systems today online learning environments are fairly robust. But giving up the classroom seems a [...]