Le cerveau. Frises du temps multimédias. Four reasons to be skeptical about Obama's free community college proposal » AEI. Today, on a visit to Tennessee, President Obama will announce a proposal to make two years at public community college “free for anyone who’s willing to work for it.”
The video doesn’t say anything else, but the website has a tiny bit more detail: The feds would pony up three-quarters of the “average cost” of community college;Students would be expected to enroll at least half-time, maintain a 2.5 GPA, and make steady progress toward completing a degree in three years;Community colleges would have to offer academic programs that fully transfer to four-year colleges or occupational programs in high demand fields with high completion rates. The Open Textbook Project provides flexible and affordable access to higher education resources. Blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/ELL Dear Colleague Letter.pdf. Www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oela/eltoolkitchap1.pdf.
Www.edweek.org/media/qualitycounts2015_release.pdf. UTEP VP: Institutions should think strategically about online programming. In December, the University of Texas at El Paso announced UTEP Connect, a partnership with Pearson that will initially bring eight online baccalaureate, graduate, and certificate programs fully online when it launches in May.
Estimated to expand access to an additional 5,000 students, the first eight programs are spread across the health, criminal justice, communication, and education fields. For the 100-year-old emerging research university, which currently does around $83 billion in funded research annually and wants to hit $100 billion in the next five years, the programs are a big deal. Despite its size and reputation, UTEP is largely access-driven, with a 78-80% Hispanic student population. Simply put, itts students are traditionally non-traditional. Brandman to offer online badges in competency-based programs. Dive Brief: Brandman University is launching digital badges for students in online competency-based degree programs to show potential employers and others what skills and abilities they possess.
The badges will be awarded as certification of skills, and they will be displayed by the students on LinkedIn and other social networks, in online talent management systems, in online resumes and portfolios, and in other Web site formats, Campus Technology reported. Brandman is using Credly to create the badges, which will provide analytics to help viewers tell what they signify and the value of the skills. Www.iscparis.com/data/recherche/colloques/Appel _a_communication_Normes_et_transformation.pdf.
Obama to propose free community college. Dive Brief: President Barack Obama plans to announce a plan Friday to make community college free for as many as 9 million students.
White House officials on Thursday declined to talk about how the plan would be paid for, or how much it would cost, drawing Republican criticism, the New York Times reported. The plan, to be announced at a Tennessee community college, is modeled after the state’s own free community college program, Tennessee Promise, which has attracted almost 90% of high school seniors in the state. Dive Insight: ePortfolio. Définition du ePortfolio. L'expert en innovation alimentaire, de l'idée au marché. Learning Style Diagnostics: The Grasha-Riechmann Student Learning Styles Scale. Introduction Studies in learning styles initially developed as a result of interest in individual differences.
These issues were very much in vogue within investigatory psychology during the 1960's, enjoyed a continuing popularity during the early 1970's but have unfortunately past from vogue since then due to our society's changed focus or an evolution of professional interest. (Curry, 1983) What is Learning? Curry (1983) states that learning is both a process and a product.