GetSmarter – Sanlam Destination – Video
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Amy Johnson from GetSmarter, an online education company, gives us some great advice on how studying further can help keep your career on track, which makes getting to your DestiNation in life a whole lot easier. Head on to the DestiNation site for more practical tips on how to reach your goals ar.gyFrom:SanlamDestinationViews:8 0ratingsTime:02:13More inEducation
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Eastern Kentucky University Enhances Online Graduate Degree Options in Education
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The Master of Arts in Education (MAEd) degree program at Eastern Kentucky University will be fully online with multiple options in Spring 2013.
RICHMOND, KY (PRWEB) November 05, 2012
Available areas of advanced study will include Elementary Education, Learning and Behavior Disorders, Educational Leadership, and Safety and Facilities Management.
Eastern was founded in 1906 as a normal school to prepare schoolteachers. The Master of Arts degree in education became the institutions first graduate degree when it was launched in 1935.
Eastern Kentucky Universitys roots are sunk deep in teacher preparation, with early beginnings as a model laboratory school, then becoming a teachers college, and today evolving as a premier comprehensive regional university, Dr. Bill Phillips, dean of EKUs College of Education, said.
The current masters degree program is composed of the Teacher Leader Core, a 15-hour block that challenges students to view themselves as powerful, effective change agents. It also includes 15 or more credit hours for strengthening an existing certification area or adding endorsements or certificates in other areas.
Those who enroll in an online degree program will take the same courses as EKU's on-campus students and from the same professors, which means they will earn the same accredited Eastern Kentucky University degree. The five new MAEd choices include an option for adding certification in Learning and Behavior Disorders. These programs join the MAEd with advanced study in Library Science, which became a fully-online degree option in January 2012.
Teachers certified in Kentucky will be eligible to apply for various endorsements issued by the Education Professional Standards Board, as well as advancement in rank. Those who are certified outside Kentucky should consult with their states licensing agency to determine whether the program will meet licensure requirements. Applications for admission to the online programs are due in December. Classes begin in January. For more information, visit http://www.eku.edu/education, or call 859-622-8610.
Named one of the Top 10 Online Colleges in the Nation by "Best Colleges" in 2010, EKU is a fully accredited, brick-and-mortar institution celebrating more than 100 years of student success. EKU Online offers more than 20 degree options in a variety of fields, including Education, Nursing, Psychology, Paralegal Studies, Police Studies, Corrections, Juvenile Justice, Occupational Safety, Fire Protection and Homeland Security.
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Free online higher ed: Voices from the frontier
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Lets hear from students around the country and the world about their experiences with free online higher education.
For a Washington Post story about massive open online courses, aka MOOCs, I looked at a class in biostatistics Johns Hopkins University offers on the Web site Coursera, one of several emerging MOOC platforms.
There are about 15,000 people registered for professor Brian Caffos public health class. I put a couple queries onto Caffos online discussion board and got many e-mail responses. I quoted from three in the story: Mohammad Hijazi, of Beirut; Ephraim Baron, of California; and Patrycja Jabonska, of Poland.
Here is a sampling of others:
I learned aboutCourserathrough a former colleagues Facebook page. He was taking a course and posted it on his FB. I checked out the site, got excited and signed up. Currently Im taking 5 courses simultaneously and I signed up for several more that will start in the near future. Even though these courses give me no advantage when Im looking for positions (Im a HS Math teacher working in international schools) I take them to expand my horizons, so to speak.-- Denes Tilistyak, 31, born in Hungary, lives in China.
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Im taking this course specifically because it helps me relate to the design of health care models and large population health care simulations ... This class also helps familiarize me with the mathematical basis and terminology that I hear on a daily basis at work. Sean C. Ormbeck, 37, of Daly City, California.
Asked how this learning experience compares with his previous schooling, Ormbeck, who has a masters degree in computer science, said: There is less work here to do, since homework and finals are not required, but at the same time, Im at a maturity level in my schooling that if I dont do the work myself, Im only hurting myself.
What I like most about this course is that its not too easy and it also helped me to refresh all my undergrad knowledge that I almost forgot. It required quite a fair bit of my time though. I spent about 3-4 hours a week watching the video and doing quizzes.-- Preeyaporn Srasuebkul, 38, born in Thailand, lives in Australia.
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University Professional & Continuing Education Association (UPCEA) Reaches More Adult Education, Workforce Development …
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MADISON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Sonic Foundry, Inc. (SOFO), the trusted market leader for video management and academic, enterprise and event webcasting, today announced it has partnered with The University Professional & Continuing Education Association (UPCEA) to webcast two conferences this week in New Orleans, L.A., as well as the Annual Conference in April, 2013.
Sonic Foundry will webcast via Mediasite UPCEAs Seminar on the Management of Online Programs, a new event scheduled for Nov. 6 to 8 that will focus on the key strategic issues in this rapidly evolving sector of higher education: new and emerging markets, online degree and certificate programs that expand access and meet workforce needs, the use of data analytics, assessing student online learning outcomes, and building for scale. Sonic Foundry will also webcast UPCEAs 21st Annual Marketing Seminar Nov. 7 to 9, which is the premier event for marketers in professional, continuing and online education.
All six general sessions from the seminars, as well as 30 concurrent sessions will be live-streamed from these two conferences, and the presentations will also be archived for on-demand viewing. To register for the online passes for these events, visit http://www.upcea.edu/onlinepass.
UPCEAs 97th Annual Conference April 3 to 5, 2013 in Boston, Mass. will also be streamed live and on-demand via Mediasite. This is the third consecutive year Sonic Foundry will partner with UPCEA to webcast this event, and the second consecutive year that it has been hybrid, offering a blend of simultaneous face-to-face and virtual experiences.
We are pleased to partner with Sonic Foundry so that these conferences can be experienced by a much larger audience, said Bob Hansen, UPCEA CEO. Those unable to travel to the conferences in New Orleans and Boston can simply attend remotely and participate in polls, ask questions, and interact with on-site participants. Remote attendees will also have the audio, video, and slides from all presentations. Plus, well create online video libraries of knowledge that our attendees can go back and review at any time and share with their colleagues.
Trusted by 1,100 colleges and universities, the patented Mediasite webcasting and video content management system quickly and cost-effectively automates the capture, management, delivery and search of live and on-demand streaming videos and rich media.
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UPCEA is the leading association for colleges and universities engaged in professional, continuing, and online education. From its inception in 1915, the Association has been committed to expanding access to higher education with programs and services for adult and non-traditional learners.
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The Technology of Massive Open Online Courses
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Experts in artificial intelligence are leaving academia to bring online learning to the world. But their most radical ideas are still on hold.
Dropouts: Artificial-intelligence researchers Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller left academia to start an online-education company.
The wave of enthusiasm for online education is unearthing some hard and interesting computational problems that Daphne Koller would love to solve. But first she has to find the time.
Last January, Koller and her colleague Andrew Ng took leave from faculty positions at Stanford Universitys artificial-intelligence lab to create Coursera, a venture-financed online-education startup with offices five miles from campus.
Since then, Courseras growth has been rapid and all consuming. The company has posted more than 200 free classes taught by professors at 33 top universities, such as the University of Pennsylvania and Caltech. More than 1.5 million students have signed up, and about 70,000 new studentsthe equivalent of four or five Stanfordsjoin every week.
Koller, 44, now spends her average day probably on a plane somewhere headed to pitch Coursera to university administrators and faculty. The last 10 months have transformed her from a celebrated expert in statistics into the co-CEO of a large and complex educational website whose money-making plans are still nascent.
As I drive home, I sometimes think this is somebody elses life, she says. She calls the experience surreal.
So far, tearing down the paywalls around higher education has been the simple part. Whats more challenging is making online classes like A History of the World Since 1300 and Algorithms I match the quality of their in-person equivalents. That means racing to set up live forums for class discussions, keeping the site from crashing amidst the crush of students, and urgently seeking ways to make classes more interactive and to automate grading as much as possible.
Given such technical challenges, its not an accident that many of the people behind recent efforts to put college courses online come from computer science labs. Another Stanford researcher, Sebastian Thrun, resigned to create the startup Udacity. At MIT, the former head of the AI department, Anant Agarwal, now runs edX, another of the organizations offering massive online open courses, or MOOCs (see The Crisis in Higher Education).
We saw the opportunity and the technology and had the ability to leverage it, says Koller. But putting classes online is only part of what the AI researchers intend with MOOCs. By following the progress of millions of students online, it may be possible to develop new insights into how people learn and tailor classes on an individual level. What we have here is an unprecedented level of detail and scale of data, she says.
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Eckhart Tolle The Pain Body – Part One – Video
Posted: November 3, 2012 at 10:48 pm
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Eckhart Tolle – Acceptance and Surrender – Video
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The Dalai Lama and Eckhart Tolle – Two Meetings (Vancouver 2009) – Video
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Vancouver Peace Summit 2009, first meeting: On Peace. Other participants: Matthieu Ricard (scientist and buddhist monk), Ken Robinson (educator), Pierre Omidyar (co-founder of ebay) and the daughter of Desmond Tutu (DT couldn #39;t participate, because he was ill at that time). Vancouver Peace Summit 2009, second meeting: On Creativity And Education. Other Participants: Matthieu Ricard (scientist and buddhist monk), Murray Gell-Mann (physicist), Daniel Siegel (psychiatrist), Ken Robinson (educator) and Matt Goldman (from the "Blue Man Group"). There where more meetings at this peace summit (without the participation of Eckhart Tolle). More here: dalailamacenter.org Video courtesy of the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education (27.9.2009).From:NewLifeChannelViews:48 4ratingsTime:02:07:07More inEducation
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Eckhart Tolle – The Bhagavad Gita Part 2 – Video
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Eckhart Tolle - The Bhagavad Gita Part 2
http://www.eckharttolle.com Eckhart continues his exploration of India #39;s revered text and how these ancient teachings remain powerful and relevant today. Experience a work considered one of the greatest spiritual treasures of humanity, as Eckhart guides us through the transcendent Bhagavad Gita. Eckhart explains the gift of karma yoga, namely the way in which we perform action in this world, as the Gita #39;s most important teaching on this month #39;s issue on Eckhart Tolle TV.From:EckhartTeachingsViews:0 0ratingsTime:05:03More inEducation
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