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Quintiq Workforce Optimization Solution Selected By American Public University System
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RADNOR, Pa., June 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Quintiq Inc. today announced that American Public University System (APUS), a provider of online higher education focused on serving the military and public service communities and other motivated professionals, has selected Quintiq's Workforce Optimization Solution to help support APUS's current operations and strategic growth initiatives.
"The flexibility of the Quintiq solution will be demonstrated by its ability to be configured to meet the challenging and dynamic nature of a 100% online educational environment," Dr. Victor Allis, CEO of Quintiq, stated. "We are confident that our software will help APUS streamline the course scheduling requirements for its approximately 1,800 faculty members worldwide."
About APUS
American Public University System (www.apus.edu), winner of the Sloan Consortium's 2009 Ralph E. Gomory Award for Quality Online Education and two-time recipient of Sloan's Effective Practices Award, offers 87 online degree programs through American Public University (www.apu.apus.edu) and American Military University (www.amu.apus.edu). APUS's relevant curriculum, affordability and flexibility help more than 100,000 working adults worldwide pursue degrees in a diverse variety of subjects.
About Quintiq
Quintiq provides advanced planning, scheduling and supply chain optimization software solutions. This fast-growing company, established in 1997, offers and implements software for planning and optimizing complex business processes throughout the enterprise. The company's dual headquarters are located in the Netherlands and the USA with subsidiaries in Australia, China, Finland, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, and the United Kingdom. Quintiq systems are implemented in 77 countries worldwide. More at http://www.quintiq.com. Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/quintiq
More information:David Kenneson VP North America Quintiq Inc. Radnor Financial Center 201 King of Prussia Road Suite 110 Radnor, PA 19087 T: 610-964-8111 E: david.kenneson@quintiq.com
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ASU to offer first complete online degree program this fall
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Augusta State University will offer its first complete online degree program in the fall, giving students an alternative to the traditional classroom setting and broadening enrollment to students outside the boundaries of Augusta.
The Web-based Master of Education in Educational Leadership is a 12-course program that students can complete in one year in front of a home computer.
It is a degree geared toward educators who want to become administrators or teachers looking to build leadership skills, said Wayne Lord, the chairman of ASUs Department of Educational Leadership, Counseling and Special Education.
The reason for 100 percent online is to reach out and expand our enrollment beyond our geography, Lord said.
Students must apply by July 20 for the Aug. 20 session and Sept. 14 for the Oct. 15 session.
Although Lord said the college has not received applications yet, he expects about 25 students per course, similar to the traditional class loads ASU has on the physical campus.
ASUs move to offer the online degree is atypical in higher education trends, even as enrollment in online courses across the country increases. The vast majority of growth in online degree programs, more than 90 percent, is coming from schools that already have an established online curriculum rather than schools such as ASU just starting to offer online degrees, according to Jeff Seaman, co-director of Babson Survey Research Group.
More than 6.1 million students nationally were taking at least one online course in the fall 2010 term, an increase of 560,000 students from the previous year, according to Seamans 2011 study Going the Distance: Online Education in the United States.
Not all higher education institutions are as interested in offering online courses, however, nor are all faculty members enthusiastic about teaching on the web.
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Liberty University Online Forms Partnership With StraighterLine to Provide Flexible, Affordable Higher Education
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LYNCHBURG, Va., June 7, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- StraighterLine (www.straighterline.com) announced today that Liberty University Online (www.LUOnline.com) has joined their rapidly expanding network of partnering colleges, welcoming StraighterLine students to transfer credits for enrollment in one of Liberty's online degree programs.
StraighterLine provides a unique path for students to get the basic credits they need at an affordable rate. Through StraighterLine's unique structure and affordable pricing plan, students can complete freshman and introductory-level classes while saving thousands on their college degree.
As a StraighterLine partner institution, Liberty Online is able to offer flexible, affordable, accredited online degree programs, in over 100 programs of study, to StraighterLine students continuing to pursue their educational goals.
Liberty Online is coming alongside StraighterLine and those students seeking to fulfill their basic course requirements in this manner to help them continue to experience the flexibility and affordability they are seeking. With eight-week sub-terms continually offered throughout the year, Liberty's online program affords students the flexibility to complete course work when and where best suited to their needs, while accelerating their degree completion.
Through this partnership, Liberty Online is offering transfer credit to those students who have successfully completed StraighterLine's online college courses. With a wide assortment of course options, StraighterLine currently offers thirty-eight entry-level college courses online including English, math, humanities, business, college prep, and science. StraighterLine courses are evaluated and recommended by the American Council on Education's College Credit Recommendation Service (ACE CREDIT), ensuring a smooth transition to students wanting to take their education to the next level.
About Liberty University
Liberty University, located in Lynchburg, Va., is the world's largest Christian university. Offering courses on its 6,800-acre, residential campus and in online format, Liberty is home to nearly 100,000 students.
Liberty Online strives to meet the needs of students on all fronts. Liberty offers more than 100 fully-accredited online programs of study, from the associate to doctoral level, and embraces the opportunity to assist individuals in advancing their education.
Since 1971, the mission of Liberty University has been to develop Christ-centered men and women with the values, knowledge, and skills essential to impact tomorrow's world. With a unique heritage and an expanding future of influence, Liberty continues steadfast in its mission of Training Champions for Christ.
As part of the world's largest, non-profit, Christian university, Liberty Online is known for its high student satisfaction and retention rates. Liberty Online continues to focus on student success by providing exceptional resources, including an online library, Online Writing Center, a partnership with Tutor.com, Liberty Online Ministries, and knowledgeable Academic Advisors.
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ClearEdits for Microsoft Word Helps You Write More Concisely
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By Erez Zukerman June 8, 2012 SAN FRANCISCO Microsoft Word has a built-in spelling checker with a touch of grammar smarts, but it will never highlight a big word and ask whether you can swap it for a small one, or note that a verb is weak and deserves replacing. For that kind of advice, you must turn to a dedicated product such as ClearEdits, an $80 add-in for Microsoft Word.
In pricing, ClearEdits is somewhere in the middle of the writing-advice pack: Its more expensive than Serenity Softwares Editor ($55; $75 with Word add-in), but much cheaper thanSentence Aerobics($139) andStyleWriter($190 for the Professional version). Its more tightly integrated with Word than either Editor or StyleWriteralthough both of those offerings play well with Word, they run outside the main Word window. ClearEdits, like competitor Sentence Aerobics, runs right inside Word. In fact, ClearEdits is even more tightly bound into Word than Sentence Aerobics: Instead of using its own custom pane, it simply adds comments and color-coded formatting to your document, much as a human editor would.
Of course, with a program such as this, price and interface dont matter as much as sound usage advice. In this department, ClearEdits plays it safe, forgoing ambitious pattern recognition and mainly highlighting single words or idioms and asking polite questions about them. The advice is concise and pleasantly worded: Unnecessary word? Cut if used only for emphasis; leave if reflexive pronoun is needed for meaning. Thats what I got for the word itself, which neither StyleWriter nor Sentence Aerobics flagged for consideration.
ClearEdits can also search for language patterns that it calls Vector Edits, such as the -ed suffix, which can indicate passive voice, a participle that needs to be made into a verb, or an adjective that can be simplified. This feature still leaves the user to do most of the work, because you will have to figure out which of the myriad options applies in each case, and whether the item is something that you should change. Also, since every Vector Edits category has so many matches, ClearEdits documentation suggests using Vector Edits one at a timewhich means youll need to recheck your text several times. On the plus side, because ClearEdits output consists of just highlighted words with native Word comments, it is easier to work with than either Sentence Aerobics (which is festooned with colors) or StyleWriter (which requires constant switching back to Word for making changes).
ClearEdits also offers some basic statistics about your document, such as the longest and shortest paragraphs and sentences, the average number of words in a sentence, and so on. Like StyleWriter, it employs its own usage metrics, ClearScores, which offer at-a-glance analysis of your text. While StyleWriter shows its metrics in the status bar, ClearEdits keeps the scores in a separate window, which is not as convenient to use.
The usage advice I received from StyleWriter tended to be more useful, since StyleWriter highlights particularly long sentences, checks for active voice, and more. ClearEdits advice is basic though sound, and did not contain awkward mistakes like those in the output from Sentence Aerobics.
In a perfect world, one application would combine StyleWriters or Editors lexical richness and ClearEdits perfectly integrated interface. Until such a program comes along, you will have to decide whats more important for you: ease of use, or comprehensive advice.
Note: The Download button takes you to the vendors site, where you must register to download the latest version of the software.
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Columbia Asia opens new hospital in Vietnam
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MALAYSIA-based international healthcare provider Columbia Asia has opened a new hospital in Binh Duong, Vietnam, which is the group's 22nd hospital in the region.
The services provider said Columbia Hospital in Binh Duong is its third facility in Vietnam after the one in Gia Dinh, Ho Chi Minh City.
The group also has an international clinic in District One, Ho Chi Minh City.
"Binh Duong has an increasing population and so we are here to meet the demand for quality healthcare now and in the future," Columbia Hospital-Binh Duong general director Dr Thai Tuong Tuong said in a statement.
The company, which is 30 per cent owned by the Employee Provident Fund and 70 per cent by a US-based International Columbia USA LLC, is developing two more hospitals, in Petaling Jaya and Klang.
Its operations in Vietnam are through 100 per cent foreign direct investment.
Columbia Asia Sdn Bhd (Southeast Asia) chief executive officer Kelvin Tan said Columbia Hospital-Binh Duong follows the Columbia Asia business model that focuses on medical excellence and caring patient services.
"This community hospital is built smaller than the standard private hospital, allowing it to provide private healthcare at affordable rates while helping to ease patient flow and operate more efficiently," he said.
The hospital has a capacity of 100 beds, with a total of 34 medical consultants. It is equipped with three operating rooms, a 10-cot nursery, four delivery suites and seven emergency bays. On top of that, it offers ambulatory, dialysis, endoscopy and physiotherapy services.
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Free outdoor yoga in Vail Village Saturday
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VAIL With a long hot summer predicted for Colorado, The Vitality Center at Vail Mountain Lodge & Spa is once again offering free yoga on the Solaris lawn in the heart of Vail every Saturday at 9 a.m. Summertime Community Yoga, returning after a successful first run last summer, offers a Vinyasa Flow style practice geared towards all levels of practitioner.
The Vitality Center officially kicked off their outdoor yoga series this year at the Teva Mountain Games and it proved to be a hit as more than 120 people showed up to practice yoga over the weekend.
Summertime Community Yoga is simply a fun way to bring the community together for healthy activity, said Yoga Director Julia Clarke. We've also found that people who are interested in yoga but a little nervous about attending a class have the unusual opportunity to quietly observe a yoga class and join us when they feel comfortable.
The 75-minute classes will be led by rotating teachers from The Vitality Center's yoga studio, which offers 25 yoga classes a week including Vinyasa Flow, Mediation, Restorative Yoga and Kundalini Yoga. Classes are rain or shine, and participants should bring their own yoga mats, water and sunscreen.
For information contact The Vitality Center at 970-476-7721.
Summertime Community Yoga is hosted by The Vitality Center, a program created by the staff at Vail Mountain Lodge & Spa, which offers individual diagnostics and guided intensive regimens, tailored group retreat programs and workshop opportunities year-round. For more information visit http://www.vailvitalitycenter.com.
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