E-Learning Report: Crafting E-Curriculum That Inspires

The final installment of Education Week's three-part series on e-learning examines how schools are working to create high-quality digital curricula and online courses.
The complete report will be available beginning Jan. 7. 2011.

Read the first two reports

Schools Examine Content, Delivery of Online AP Courses by Michelle R. Davis

Education Week  writes, "As the number of online Advanced Placement courses rises, more students are accessing those college-level classes than ever before. But teachers, students, and the governing body that authorizes such courses have had to adapt over time to determine how materials should be presented online and whether that method measures up to face-to-face instruction.

High schools that were once limited in the number of AP courses they could offer—whether from a lack of money, isolated locations, or student numbers too low to justify them—now have a plethora of online providers to choose from and free material to access. At the same time, course creators are learning new lessons about how to organize such information, and online-course requirements from the New York City-based College Board, which sponsors the AP program, are also evolving"
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Source: Education Week

E-Learning Report: Crafting E-Curriculum That Inspires

The final installment of Education Week's three-part series on e-learning examines how schools are working to create high-quality digital curricula and online courses.
The complete report will be available beginning Jan. 7. 2011.

Read the first two reports

Schools Examine Content, Delivery of Online AP Courses by Michelle R. Davis

Education Week  writes, "As the number of online Advanced Placement courses rises, more students are accessing those college-level classes than ever before. But teachers, students, and the governing body that authorizes such courses have had to adapt over time to determine how materials should be presented online and whether that method measures up to face-to-face instruction.

High schools that were once limited in the number of AP courses they could offer—whether from a lack of money, isolated locations, or student numbers too low to justify them—now have a plethora of online providers to choose from and free material to access. At the same time, course creators are learning new lessons about how to organize such information, and online-course requirements from the New York City-based College Board, which sponsors the AP program, are also evolving"
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Source: Education Week

KMSI Announces a Special Offer in Conjunction with Training Magazine's 34th Annual Conference & Expo

Knowledge Management Solutions, Inc. (KMSI), a leader in learning, talent and performance management technologies, today announced that it will showcase its KMx Learning Platform at Training Magazine's 34th Annual Conference & Expo being held February 7 - 9, 2010 at the San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA.
KMSI also announced a special offer in connection with the conference that lets corporations, associations and Government agencies purchase KMSI’s unlimited user KMx Enterprise software and receive a robust library of Vubiz courseware at no additional cost.


KMx - Advanced Distributed Learning

KMx Enterprise provides fully integrated eLearning content development, learning management, performance management, talent management, a virtual classroom and learning content management in one easy to use solution. The KMx user interface is available with language packs to provide for localization and multilingual distribution. The current languages packs available include English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Polish, Czech, Russian, Korean, Japanese, Chinese and Portuguese.

“Our partnership with KMSI gives us both the opportunity to provide the most complete and effective eLearning package at the best price in the market,” explains Vubiz President and CEO, Jim Rapino. “We’re extremely happy with how easily our courses play on the KMx system and how great they look on KMx mobile.”

KMxMobile enables users to access courses, learning objects, exams and surveys using an iPhone, Android or Windows handheld device with full Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) learning management capabilities.
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Learn More About KMx (PDF)

About KMSI
Knowledge Management Solutions, Inc. is a leading provider of innovative learning, performance and talent management solutions supporting millions of end-users at Fortune 2000 companies, associations and government agencies. KMSI’s clients include many of the largest companies in the world, including retail chains, pharmaceuticals, manufacturers, technology companies, utilities, software companies, universities, insurance firms and financial institutions.
Please visit http://www.kmsi.com to learn more.

About Vubiz
Vubiz is an award-winning, leading eLearning provider offering unbeatable pricing, quality content and outstanding customer service. Vubiz has an impressive and diverse library of online courses in timely topics from Management/business skills to Health & Safety to Compliance. Vubiz can brand or customize content to meet client’s needs and can develop any type of new custom content with a highly qualified team of instructional designers and multi-media staff. Vubiz courses are very user-friendly -- they require minimal bandwidth and do not require the complex Java setup and packaging process that others do. Vubiz services millions of learners through their network of clients at Fortune 2000 businesses, government and national associations.
Visit http://www.vubiz.com for more information.

Source:  PRWeb

KMSI Announces a Special Offer in Conjunction with Training Magazine's 34th Annual Conference & Expo

Knowledge Management Solutions, Inc. (KMSI), a leader in learning, talent and performance management technologies, today announced that it will showcase its KMx Learning Platform at Training Magazine's 34th Annual Conference & Expo being held February 7 - 9, 2010 at the San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA.
KMSI also announced a special offer in connection with the conference that lets corporations, associations and Government agencies purchase KMSI’s unlimited user KMx Enterprise software and receive a robust library of Vubiz courseware at no additional cost.


KMx - Advanced Distributed Learning

KMx Enterprise provides fully integrated eLearning content development, learning management, performance management, talent management, a virtual classroom and learning content management in one easy to use solution. The KMx user interface is available with language packs to provide for localization and multilingual distribution. The current languages packs available include English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Polish, Czech, Russian, Korean, Japanese, Chinese and Portuguese.

“Our partnership with KMSI gives us both the opportunity to provide the most complete and effective eLearning package at the best price in the market,” explains Vubiz President and CEO, Jim Rapino. “We’re extremely happy with how easily our courses play on the KMx system and how great they look on KMx mobile.”

KMxMobile enables users to access courses, learning objects, exams and surveys using an iPhone, Android or Windows handheld device with full Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) learning management capabilities.
Read more...

Learn More About KMx (PDF)

About KMSI
Knowledge Management Solutions, Inc. is a leading provider of innovative learning, performance and talent management solutions supporting millions of end-users at Fortune 2000 companies, associations and government agencies. KMSI’s clients include many of the largest companies in the world, including retail chains, pharmaceuticals, manufacturers, technology companies, utilities, software companies, universities, insurance firms and financial institutions.
Please visit http://www.kmsi.com to learn more.

About Vubiz
Vubiz is an award-winning, leading eLearning provider offering unbeatable pricing, quality content and outstanding customer service. Vubiz has an impressive and diverse library of online courses in timely topics from Management/business skills to Health & Safety to Compliance. Vubiz can brand or customize content to meet client’s needs and can develop any type of new custom content with a highly qualified team of instructional designers and multi-media staff. Vubiz courses are very user-friendly -- they require minimal bandwidth and do not require the complex Java setup and packaging process that others do. Vubiz services millions of learners through their network of clients at Fortune 2000 businesses, government and national associations.
Visit http://www.vubiz.com for more information.

Source:  PRWeb

Third-, fifth-graders join in NASA videoconferences

Students at the Horizons-on-the-Hudson Elementary School recently participated in two live interactive videoconferences with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Photo: recordonline.com

Joseph Catania, Horizons educational technology specialist, coordinated the distance learning event with NASA for Wanda Mejia-Jenkins' fifth-grade class and for Kelly Garcia's and Concetta Cracolici's third-grade classes.

Through distance learning technologies such as videoconferencing and webcasting, the NASA Digital Learning Network, or DLN, connects students and teachers with NASA experts and education specialists. Catania works closely with classroom teachers to plan and coordinate videoconferences that are related to the curriculum in the classroom.

Since 2007, Horizons-on-the-Hudson students have participated in more than 100 different interactive videoconferences with NASA, the National Holocaust Museum, the Smithsonian, international schools and schools across the country.

Source: Times Herald-Record

Third-, fifth-graders join in NASA videoconferences

Students at the Horizons-on-the-Hudson Elementary School recently participated in two live interactive videoconferences with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Photo: recordonline.com

Joseph Catania, Horizons educational technology specialist, coordinated the distance learning event with NASA for Wanda Mejia-Jenkins' fifth-grade class and for Kelly Garcia's and Concetta Cracolici's third-grade classes.

Through distance learning technologies such as videoconferencing and webcasting, the NASA Digital Learning Network, or DLN, connects students and teachers with NASA experts and education specialists. Catania works closely with classroom teachers to plan and coordinate videoconferences that are related to the curriculum in the classroom.

Since 2007, Horizons-on-the-Hudson students have participated in more than 100 different interactive videoconferences with NASA, the National Holocaust Museum, the Smithsonian, international schools and schools across the country.

Source: Times Herald-Record

Eve Online: Commissioned Officer Edition review by Barry de la Rosa

A great opportunity to get into a unique game at an exciting time in its development; just beware the massive & unforgiving learning curve.

Eve Online is one of the longest-running games in the massively multiplayer online (MMO) genre. Started in 2003, the game takes place in a single, massive universe shared by up to 50,000 players at one time. It’s unique in that every skill takes time to learn, and only one can be learned at a time, so "older" players generally have an advantage. The Commissioned Officer Edition goes a long way to softening that disadvantage for new players.
 
The Commissioned Officer Edition is designed to encourage newcomers. Previously, you had to spend the first month of the game acquiring Learning skills that reduced the training time of future skills, but had no immediate practical benefit. The CO Edition gives you an immediate boost to replace these, so you can start acquiring practical skills from the outset. This should half the time it takes you to become a useful member of the Eve community, but still expect to put in a lot of work, and experience very little in-game interaction with others, for the first few weeks.
 
Eve Online is infamous for its steep learning curve - but there are player-run corporations, such as Eve University (www.eveuniversity.org), that take on new players and offer them a gentler, structured path. It's also worth pointing out that while Eve looks beautiful, it actually has very low system requirements and can even run on laptops with integrated graphics chips.
 
Source: Expert reviews

Eve Online: Commissioned Officer Edition review by Barry de la Rosa

A great opportunity to get into a unique game at an exciting time in its development; just beware the massive & unforgiving learning curve.

Eve Online is one of the longest-running games in the massively multiplayer online (MMO) genre. Started in 2003, the game takes place in a single, massive universe shared by up to 50,000 players at one time. It’s unique in that every skill takes time to learn, and only one can be learned at a time, so "older" players generally have an advantage. The Commissioned Officer Edition goes a long way to softening that disadvantage for new players.
 
The Commissioned Officer Edition is designed to encourage newcomers. Previously, you had to spend the first month of the game acquiring Learning skills that reduced the training time of future skills, but had no immediate practical benefit. The CO Edition gives you an immediate boost to replace these, so you can start acquiring practical skills from the outset. This should half the time it takes you to become a useful member of the Eve community, but still expect to put in a lot of work, and experience very little in-game interaction with others, for the first few weeks.
 
Eve Online is infamous for its steep learning curve - but there are player-run corporations, such as Eve University (www.eveuniversity.org), that take on new players and offer them a gentler, structured path. It's also worth pointing out that while Eve looks beautiful, it actually has very low system requirements and can even run on laptops with integrated graphics chips.
 
Source: Expert reviews

Find your Irish ancestors in new online collection by SHARON TATE MOODY

Those with Irish ancestors and relatives will be delighted to see that the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland is making photographic collections available through flickr, a free photo-sharing website.

Wedding and family portraits shot from 1900 to 1952 by Allison Photographic Studios of Armagh are now available.

Record office director Aileen McClintock called the images a "tremendous resource for [those] interested in local history, genealogy and even changing fashions in bridal wear."

The pictures were transferred from fragile glass plate negatives commonly used by photographers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries prior to the advent of photographic film.

Visit www.proni.gov.uk/pronionflickr to view the photographs.
The Irish record office also recently indexed and digitized wills dated 1858 through 1900 from three district probate registries of Armagh, Belfast, and Londerry. These records are available at no charge at http://tinyurl.com/2fj38y3.
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Source: Tampa Bay Online

Find your Irish ancestors in new online collection by SHARON TATE MOODY

Those with Irish ancestors and relatives will be delighted to see that the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland is making photographic collections available through flickr, a free photo-sharing website.

Wedding and family portraits shot from 1900 to 1952 by Allison Photographic Studios of Armagh are now available.

Record office director Aileen McClintock called the images a "tremendous resource for [those] interested in local history, genealogy and even changing fashions in bridal wear."

The pictures were transferred from fragile glass plate negatives commonly used by photographers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries prior to the advent of photographic film.

Visit www.proni.gov.uk/pronionflickr to view the photographs.
The Irish record office also recently indexed and digitized wills dated 1858 through 1900 from three district probate registries of Armagh, Belfast, and Londerry. These records are available at no charge at http://tinyurl.com/2fj38y3.
Read more...

Source: Tampa Bay Online