The Blue Book Building and Construction Network to Introduce New Online Education Resource for Commercial Construction …
Posted: November 7, 2012 at 6:43 am
JEFFERSON VALLEY, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Recognizing the construction industrys increasing requirements for Continuing Education and the need for a comprehensive and reliable resource for these materials, The Blue Book Network has partnered with four leading content providers to launch BlueBookUniversity.com.
BlueBookUniversity.com will provide direct access to a comprehensive database of continuing education courses, programs and publications targeted to architects, engineers, contractors, owners, facility managers and other industry professionals. The new website, which officially debuts at the Greenbuild International Expo on November 14th in San Francisco, consists of the following four Schools that offer one-stop shopping for continuing education and training courses:
The BlueBookUniversity.com Campus Book Store, powered by BNi Building News, provides an extensive library of print and online resources including reference manuals, code books, DVDs and downloadable content to help keep industry professionals up-to-date and informed of the latest trends.
As we near our 100thAnniversary this January, The Blue Book Network remains firmly committed to developing the information solutions required by the industry from design through post-construction, explained Rich Johnson, Blue Book Network President. Understanding the industrys growing need for quality online continuing education, we are excited to provide BlueBookUniversity.com as one of these targeted solutions.
Blue Book Premier Network Members are eligible for cost-saving discounts on all courses and campus book store purchases. The website also provides quick links to thebluebook.com and BPMSelect.com for additional construction and building product based educational content.
For more information on BlueBookUniversity.com, please contact Howard Mager, Vice-Chancellor, Blue Book University at 800-431-2584, extension 3174 or hmager@mail.thebluebook.com. Or, visit The Blue Book Network at the Greenbuild International Expo, booth 3583N for a tour of the BBU campus.
About The Blue Book Building and Construction Network
The Blue Book Network has been connecting the commercial construction industry since 1913. Building from a database of over 1,000,000 classified company listings in 560 classifications The Blue Book Network today provides digital information and communication solutions designed to enhance the daily workflow of the entire construction industry. For more information on The Blue Book Building and Construction Network, visit thebluebook.com or call 800-431-2584.
Connected to learning
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Fueled by changing demographics, online education is quickly becoming what some experts describe as disruptive innovation.
That is, it will change the way we think about higher education, said Dr. Philip DiSalvio, dean of University College at the University of Massachusetts Boston, an expert on online education trends.
DiSalvio described disruptive innovation as something that changes the face of an industry. For example, cellphones replacing land lines and pay phones.
According to DiSalvio, by 2016, 25 million college students will be taking some of their classes online.
If that trend continues, by 2018 there will be more full-time online students that take all their classes (online).
Over 70 percent of students in higher education can be considered nontraditional adult leaners, he said. Thats why online learning is resonating.
DiSalvio said many traditional bricks-and-mortar institutions, even elite ones such as MIT and Harvard, have expanded into the online realm.
It really is a way of adjusting learning opportunities to the current student population, he said.
Larry Ladd, director of accounting firm Grant Thorntons higher education practice, said he believes the future of brick-and-mortar institutions is un-certain, adding that students want courses that fit their needs and schedules.
In online courses, the student is measured more carefully and there is more accountability for the student. People imagine online courses as a passive experience, but its a very active engagement ... engagement is a key factor in learning, he said.
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UNC administrators explore online course options
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In the Universitys effort to keep education accessible, administrators are focusing their efforts on an up-and-coming forum, online education.
And now, they are exploring a new way to put course content online for free.
Carol Tresolini, vice provost for academic initiatives, said the University is considering a partnership with Coursera, a massive open online course (MOOC) provider.
MOOC providers offer free courses from some of the nations top universities to anyone with access to a computer.
Provost Bruce Carney will present a short summary about the strengths and weaknesses of online education and online course providers such as Coursera to the Board of Trustees on Nov. 14.
Rob Bruce, director of UNCs William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education, said the most important element of online education is access.
Im thinking of (former UNC-system President) Bill Friday, and he constantly advocated for access, and access to education distance education really can bring that about, Bruce said.
The Friday Center offers about 138 courses, which reach about 4,000 students worldwide each year.
Leslie Parise, a member of UNCs faculty executive committee, said online education is unique because it reaches students who would not otherwise be able to receive an on-campus education.
I believe evolving technology will drive change whether it is initially embraced or not.
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Capella Education Company to Host Analyst and Investor Day on Nov. 29, 2012; Present at Upcoming Investor Conference
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MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Capella Education Company (CPLA), a provider of online post-secondary education, primarily through its wholly owned subsidiary Capella University, today announced that it will host an Analyst and Investor Day on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012, in New York, NY, from 9:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. eastern time (ET). This invitation-only event will include presentations by senior leaders from across the company on Capellas current position and vision for the future. The event will be webcast live on the Capella Education Company web site at http://www.capellaeducation.com. It will also be archived at http://www.capellaeducation.com in the investor relations section for 60 days.
Capella Education Company also announced its participation in the following investor conference, which will also be webcast live and archived at http://www.capellaeducation.com in the investor relations section:
About Capella Education Company
Founded in 1991, Capella Education Company is a leader in online education, primarily through our wholly owned subsidiary Capella University, a regionally accredited* online university. In addition, Capella Education Company offers online education through Resource Development International Ltd. (RDI), an independent provider of United Kingdom (UK) university distance learning qualifications. Capella Education Company also owns an innovative startup company called Sophia (http://www.sophia.org) - a social teaching and learning platform that integrates education with technology.
Capella University offers online graduate degree programs in business, counseling, education, health administration, homeland security, human resource management, human services, information technology, nonprofit management and leadership, nursing, psychology, public administration, public health, public safety, and social work, and bachelor's degree programs in business, information technology, nursing, psychology, and public safety. These academic programs are designed to meet the needs of working adults, combining high quality, competency-based curricula with the convenience and flexibility of an online learning format. Currently, Capella University offers 43 graduate and undergraduate degree programs with 148 specializations. Nearly 35,000 learners were enrolled as of Sept. 30, 2012, with about 75 percent of learners enrolled in graduate degree programs. For more information about Capella Education Company, please visit http://www.capellaeducation.com. For more information about Capella University, please visit http://www.capella.edu or call 1.888.CAPELLA (227.3552).
Resource Development International Ltd. partners with a number of the top 100 universities in the UK to develop, validate and deliver UK higher education qualifications, predominantly through online courses. For more information, visit http://www.rdi.co.uk.
Sophia is a first-of-its-kind social education platform that offers students many ways to learn by making free, credible, academic content available to anyone, anywhere, at anytime. The site offers tens of thousands of tutorials created by hundreds of teachers and experts that are taught in a variety of ways. The platform further enhances the learning process by offering quizzes, assessing learning preferences and providing learning paths. For more information, visit http://www.sophia.org.
*Capella University is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA), http://www.ncahlc.org. Capella University, Capella Tower, 225 South Sixth Street, Ninth Floor, Minneapolis, MN 55402, 1.888.CAPELLA (227.3552), http://www.capella.edu.
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Improving Online Education Technology, One Computer Scientist at a Time
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Online education startups are training a new generation of coders to solve their own problems.
One technological sticking point that faces online education startups like Coursera, which I profile today in MIT Technology Review's November digital education report, is how to grade assignments from tens of thousands of students. This inability for computers to easily grade short answer questions, essays, or even drawings sets a limitation on course offerings, especially for humanities and social science classes. Right now, Coursera is solving this by setting up a peer-grading system for some classes so students can evaluate each other's work.
While artificial intelligence has not advanced to a state that the robo-graders can take over, Coursera might end up solving some of these problems in unexpected ways, including by training a new generation of data scientists.
Consider the case of University of New Orleans mechanical engineering major Luis Tandalla, a native of Quito, Ecuador. Tandalla, who is 22, took Coursera co-founder Andrew Ngs wildly-popular machine learning course online through Stanford University last year, and has since taken several more computer science classes offered through Coursera.He took these classes online, rather than his own university, partly because the teachers were some of the top professors in their fields. "They are the professors that wrote the books," he says.
With his new knowledge, he entered a contest sponsored by the Hewlett Foundation on the crowdsourcing site Kaggle and this October won the $50,000 top prize. His accomplishment? Writing the algorithm that most improved how accurately computers can grade short-answer essays without human help.
When I spoke with Tandalla, he told me he plans to use the prize money to pursue graduate studies in computer science. In the end, Coursera and other online learning platforms could help train a new crop of computer scientists, like Tandalla, who improve the quality of online education across a far wider range of fields.
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Posted: November 5, 2012 at 3:47 pm
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