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The Hospice Education Network Inc. Partners with the Life Quality Institute
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This partnership provides an online, national platform for courses targeted to palliative care programs and professionals.
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HEN offers courses for staff orientation programs, volunteer training, and annual in-services, as well as specialized clinical and regulatory courses addressing the needs of hospice programs and palliative care professionals. The partnership with HEN fits in perfectly with our strategic goals and it is wonderful to enhance HENs impressive course library with programs targeted to palliative care programs and professionals, states Jennifer Ballentine, Executive Director of LQI.
Adding LQI educational programs to HENs extensive catalogue of over 180 courses, as well as being the exclusive online provider of ELNEC courses, positions HEN as the leader in online education for hospice and palliative care. Together, LQI and HEN aim to improve the quality of care provided to patients with advanced illness and to their families by improving the knowledge and skills of their caregivers through relevant and affordable online education.
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The Hospice Education Network, established in 2007, is an innovative e-learning company that offers online education and training developed specifically for hospice and palliative care programs and professionals.
About LQI:
Headquartered in Denver, Life Quality Institute is the only independent organization between Ohio and California focusing on palliative care education. LQI's expert interdisciplinary staff offers presentations and programs on a wide variety of palliative care topics from advance care planning to clinical assessment and intervention to caregiving and bereavement support.
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Knewton Looks to Transform Online Education
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Knewton, an online education platform founded four years ago in NY by Jose Ferreira, has developed technology that collects data on students as they progress through their online classes, as the platform uses the data to adapt to the individuals unique learning style. Some of the metrics it uses are scores, speed, accuracy, delays, keystrokes, click-streams and drop-offs. The software has the capability of making anywhere from 5 million to 10 million adjustments every single day.
According to Forbes, in a partnership with Arizona State University, educational publisher Pearon offered online remedial math classes powered by Knewton and noted an increase in pass rate from 66% to 75% and a decrease in course drop-rate from 13% to 6%. More importantly, the teachers were able to track each students progress and needs.
Though it is estimated that the company only had a revenue of about $6 million, predictions put Knewtons revenues in four years to exceed $100 million. Ferreiras goal is to have all online education programs integrated with the Knewton software.
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Utah Senate passes bill tweaking controversial online education law
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After negotiations, the Utah Senate passed a bill Friday that would tweak a controversial online education program so it could cost school districts less money.
The bill also would allow students to take more total online and traditional classes than theyre currently allowed.
The Senate passed SB178 by a vote of 24-1 on Friday after sponsor Sen. Howard Stephenson, R-Draper, told lawmakers Thursday he changed the bill after negotiations with Rep. Brad Last, R-Hurricane, who had been running a bill to rewrite the states online education law entirely.
The program, which was passed into law last year, now allows students in grades 9-12 to take up to two classes online from school districts and charter schools other than their own. When a student does so, the students home school must pay the course provider $727 per full-year course. Also, the student cannot take the online course in addition to a full course load at his traditional school instead the online class must replace a traditional one.
Stephensons original version of SB178 would have modified the program by setting fees for different types of online courses. But many educators still complained the fees would cost schools more than they receive, hurting schools that lose students to online courses.
Others suggested that, instead, school districts and charter schools be allowed to negotiate the fees directly with providers on their own to try to save money.
The version of SB178 passed by the Senate on Friday would do just that.
"Were not going to attempt to fix fees because we believe those should be market-based," Stephenson said of the changes during initial floor debate Thursday.
It would also allow students to take the online classes on top of full course loads if their school districts or charter schools permit.
Lasts bill would have allowed districts to negotiate prices directly with providers, but it also would have allowed students to take online classes only from their own districts/charters or a provider of the district/charters choosing a move critics said would mean less choice for students.
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Zumba, suspension training are trendy workouts in 2012 (with video)
Posted: March 3, 2012 at 1:21 am
By John Arthur Hutchison JHutchison@News-Herald.com @newsheraldjah
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Members participate in a fitness class earlier this year at the Mentor Heisley Racquet and Fitness Club. Alene Delong, manager at the club, said shes a surge in participation in Zumba classes at the Mentor facility. She said the dance class that uses pounding music is incredibly popular.
Experts in the fitness industry say they have noticed an encouraging shift in the publics understanding of the nations obesity problem as well as a growing trend to incorporate traditional fitness programs with overall life coaching for improved total health.
The American Council on Exercise recently announced its top nine 2012 Fitness Trends to Watch as identified by its extensive network of personal trainers, exercise scientists, group fitness experts, allied health providers, and lifestyle and weight management coaches.
The nonprofit organization, based in San Diego, is a premier fitness and personal trainer organization that encompasses about 1,500 experts.
The trends are: obesity awareness, whole-life training, behavior modification, community collaboration, influence of technology, senior and youth specialties, advanced professional education, workplace support and popular workouts.
The ACE said losing weight will continue to be the primary reason consumers seek personal training support, as the public responds to the expanded messaging about the dangers of physical inactivity and obesity,
Some workouts like Zumba, bootcamp-style workouts, suspension training and interval training will continue to be popular workout trends along with balance and core training, according to ACE.
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Expo gets down to the heart of the matter
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MVHI's annual Health and Fitness Expo has become a must-attend for participants in America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk, and the community as a whole. As our Sarah Blazonis tells us, it was the event before the event that had people in the Mohawk Valley thinking about heart health.
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UTICA, N.Y. -- Heart health is never far from Byron Elias' mind.
"My mother had open heart surgery, and my father passed away from a massive heart attack," he explained.
That's part of the reason he keeps a close eye on his cardiac health and why he stopped by the free cardiac health screening booth at this year's Health and Fitness Expo.
"Coming here today with the screening, I feel like I get my cholesterol done, I get my blood pressure checked, and if they find something you can talk to your doctor about it," Elias said.
Elias certainly wouldn't be alone in his health concerns even in a crowd smaller than the expo's expected 5,000.
"Heart disease is the number one killer...It's based on our diets, based on our lifestyles, and sometimes genetics," said Adanna Akujuo, a cardiothoracic surgeon with the Mohawk Valley Heart Institute.
So while the expo may have started out as a last-minute push for registration for America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk, it's morphed over the decades into a one-stop shop for learning about heart health, better eating options, and how to focus on fitness.
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