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Nutmeg Education Engages Teachers with Lesson Plan Submission Contest
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PROVIDENCE, R.I., May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Teaching isn't easy. With the many obstacles facing teachers today, they could use some support in the classroom and with school budgets as tight as they are, teachers could use some extra cash. Nutmeg Education hopes to give them both through its "Lesson Plan Submission Contest," which began on the day of Nutmeg Education's launch, May 21, and runs until June 18.
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The contest offers teachers up to $2,500 for themselves and their school just for submitting a lesson plan. It also gets them started using a free resource to discover new lesson plans and instructional ideas with its Lesson Plan Network. To sign up, visit NutmegEducation.com/contest.
There's three parts to the contest. The first is the "Teacher Challenge", which is a cash giveaway that guarantees $500 for any group of at least 8 teachers who sign up for the site and each upload at least one ELA or Math lesson plan (the deadline for the Teacher Challenge has been extended to June 18 to include as many teachers as possible). The "School Challenge" rewards the school with the most total lesson plans with $1,000, and the "Lesson Plan Contest" offers $1,000 to the teacher who uploads the most creative or innovative lesson as judged by our panel of teachers.
Teachers are encouraged to learn more about the contest, explore the website, and begin submitting their lesson plans to the Lesson Plan Network by visiting http://www.nutmegeducation.com. The site also allows teachers to administer short formative assessments and identify where students are struggling through the Collaborative Assessment Builder, and provide those students with the relevant remediation resources with the Remedial Education Center. Those two components will launch later this summer.
Please download the Nutmeg Education contest flyer and contest rules from http://nutmegeducation.com/contest/.
About Nutmeg Education:Nutmeg Education, LLC was founded in July, 2011 in Hobe Sound, Florida, by Jonathan Modica. During the first few months, Jon and the company's co-founder, Teddy Hills, engaged teachers around the country and quickly identified what they describe as a "mismatch" in how teachers were using the available K-12 resources. Many teachers were trying to inform their instruction from the results of assessments that were solely designed by test companies to measure standardized assessment performance. By doing this, teachers, schools, and districts were using test data to make inappropriate assumptions about student learning. Nutmeg soon evolved to tackle not just the assessment mismatch, but also the need for instructional resources and remediation. Nutmeg was created to help teachers through a free online platform, empowering them with the greatest resource that there is to offer the collective knowledge of the teaching community.
Until this past year, teachers' ability to share standards-aligned materials and resources has been prohibited by the vast differences among state curriculum standards. The Common Core State Standards, a set of education standards now adopted by 45 states, provide a baseline for sharing across the country. Therefore, the time is perfect for the Nutmeg Education Platform.
In November, Nutmeg contracted with New Philosophy, LLC, a digital agency in New York with the technical know-how and design prowess to make Nutmeg's vision a reality. From the start, Nutmeg worked closely with teachers to be sure they were building a platform that was aligned to teachers' daily classroom needs and easy enough for all teachers to use during their already packed. The twenty teachers who spent time and energy helping to design Nutmeg are Nutmeg's "Founding Teachers"; these Founding Teachers played a key role in helping create the platform.
For additional information about Nutmeg Education and the Lesson Plan Submission Contest please go to: http://nutmegeducation.com/media/.
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Zultys Streamlines Campus Communications for Colleges and Universities, On- and Off-Campus
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Unified Communications Solution Simplifies IT Management, Saves Money for Online and Offline Education
SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - May 30, 2012) - Is higher education recession-proof? If the number of students currently enrolled in colleges and universities is a good indicator, then the answer is yes. In the United States today, more than 20 million students attend approximately 6,600 higher-education institutions [1]. The most recent available statistics from the National Center for Education [2] indicate a 73 percent increase in enrollment for post-secondary educational institutions between 1985-2009.
Online education has played a significant role in this increase in enrollments. More than one-quarter of all higher education students -- 6.1 million students -- now take at least one class online, a 2011 Babson online education survey [3] found. That number represents 560,000 more online enrollees than in 2009, and a 283 percent increase from 2002. A prime example of the scale at which online institutions operate, the University of Phoenix, the largest online university in the United States, has more than 370,000 students enrolled in degree programs [4].
As classroom dynamics adapt to the digital age, and as the number of students increases, so does the need for a communications system that can integrate a wide range of platforms and devices, from any location, connecting students, administration and faculty. Without a proactive integration strategy, important communication tools such as IM/chat, IP calling and audioconferencing are siloed by platform or device. Instead of working as a single team, staff, faculty and students must contest with an influx of communications from multiple sources, losing time and productivity in the process.
Having the right unified communications (UC) system can streamline many aspects of the education process -- from student enrollment to interdepartmental curriculum development -- by providing all necessary collaboration tools in one central interface. With students increasingly reliant on computing devices in the classroom and outside of it, educational institutions should take a page from what successful businesses have learned -- that having a strong unified communications solution is critical to a strong infrastructure and improves the end-user experience, in this case that of the matriculated student. Whether smartphone, tablet or desktop, PC or Mac, users can access the same reliable interface for essential communications functions. Zultys' comprehensive UC solution enables faster workflow and collaboration for any department in any location, in one easy-to-use system. A prime example of this, Ross Medical Education Center, an accredited allied health education provider with more than 20 locations in four states, relies on Zultys UC for its online admissions.
"Our admissions process used to be time-consuming," said Greg Brenner, Chief Information Officer of Ross Education, an allied health institution with more than 20 campuses in four states. "I wanted our admissions representatives to work in a single computer-screen window instead of wasting time navigating back and forth between different windows and programs. With the Zultys Salesforce.com Communicator for Enrollment Rx, we could streamline the process by dialing out and putting our notes in through a complete one-window touch interface, making the process significantly faster."
Zultys offers collaboration features such as Presence, audio- and videoconferencing, IP voice services, chat/IM, Salesforce and Outlook integration, and more. Available in one box, Zultys is easy to deploy and scale, simplifying IT management for even the fastest-growing organizations. With the Zultys solution, IT departments can improve productivity, simplify their infrastructure and reduce costs, setting the foundation for a cost-effective communications system that doesn't overextend the college budget.
"Higher education institutions need a complete UC solution that is simple to manage and can scale rapidly," said Steve Francis, chief sales and marketing officer at Zultys. "Educational institutions of all sizes can ensure a seamless workflow with Zultys, especially during busy times like the beginning and end of the school year. Zultys also comes in a single box, making it easy to deploy, maintain and scale. Learning institutions can simultaneously simplify and improve their IT systems."
To learn more about how Zultys streamlines communications for Ross Education, please visit the case study here: http://www.zultys.com/documents/Zultys_Ross_Education_Case_Study.pdf.
About Zultys Zultys is the global provider of a true all-in-one unified communications solution. Innovative, reliable and scalable, Zultys IP phone systems integrate voice, video, data and mobility -- in a single appliance -- to optimize collaboration for businesses of all sizes. Zultys delivers a powerful, feature-rich communications system that is easy-to-use, deploy and maintain. Zultys is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices around the world. To learn more, visit http://www.zultys.com.
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Higher education moves online
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For a select group of students attending Washington University Law School, classes will be no farther away than a laptop.
On Tuesday, the Washington University Law School announced an online master's degree program in U.S. law, reported Tamar Lewin of the New York Times. Partnering with 2tor, a higher education technology syndicate, the program is "perhaps the earliest partnership between a top-tier law school and a commercial enterprise," Lewin wrote. There are pros and cons to this experimental model, he added.
This program, similar to other online education initiatives at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, boast convenience, replication and, most advantageously, affordability. Mark C. Taylor at Bloomberg reported, "This reconfiguration of courses gives students more freedom and creates the possibility of decreasing the time necessary to complete a college degree, thereby lowering the cost of a college education."
While the program is reputable, it is not yet equivalent to a traditional law degree, according to the article. "About a dozen states allow some Master of Law holders to qualify for the bar exam, but in New York, those with master's degrees are not eligible if they earned the degree online," Lewin wrote.
But "with the advent of online degrees," Gayle Murphy, senior executive of the California committee of bar examiners, observed, "those guidelines might be revisited," reported Lewin.
According to Mary Carmichael at the Boston Globe, this "burgeoning movement" is getting an endorsement "that may have an even greater impact (than expansion): rigorous evidence that the computer can be as effective as the classroom."
On Tuesday, Ithaka S+R, a nonprofit technology company, will release a new study supporting online learning. The study "compared two versions of an introductory statistics course, one taught face to face by professors and one mostly taught online with only an hour a week of face time. Researchers found students fared equally well in both formats on every measure of learning. The only difference was that the online group appeared to learn faster," Carmichael said.
Bloomberg reported on another study showing that "in 2009, about 29 percent of college students took at least one course online; by 2014, that number is projected to increase to 50 percent. Much of this growth has been driven by for-profit schools, but in the past couple of years, traditional colleges and universities have designed their own programs in an effort to increase tuition income without expanding the physical plant. It remains to be seen whether this financial bet will pay off."
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Posted: May 29, 2012 at 1:24 pm
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Online Tech Offers Data Security Scholarship to College Students
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ANN ARBOR, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Online Tech is awarding two $1,000 scholarships to students interested in pursuing a career in information technology, computer sciences and healthcare information technology. The 2012 Data Security Scholarship will be available for the Fall semester of the 2012-2013 academic year.
Applicants should show an interest in cloud computing, data computing, disaster recovery, colocation and similar topics as it relates to the ever-changing fields of information technology and healthcare IT.
Online Tech feels strongly about offering the scholarship in order to encourage tomorrows technology leaders to pursue higher education in their respective fields, said April Sage, Online Techs Director of Healthcare Vertical and Marketing.
Scholarships awarded by Online Tech will be based on the applicants response to one of the following questions:
1. Healthcare: What do you see as the best technology for improving healthcare and health IT?"
2. Mobile Security: What do you see as the most serious mobile security threat facing consumers and/or companies and why?
While the traditional essay submission is one option, Online Tech has also opened up the submissions to take the form of a short, 10-minute video or an infographic complete with a brief explanation.
All interested students can apply on Online Techs website by clicking here. Submissions should submitted no later than July 8, 2012. Winners for the award will be announced by August 10, 2012.
Online Tech (www.OnlineTech.com) is the leader in secure and compliant hosting services including private cloud hosting, managed cloud hosting, hybrid cloud hosting, managed dedicated servers, disaster recovery and offsite backup services, and Michigan colocation. Online Techs legacy of independent HIPAA, PCI, SAS 70 Type II, SSAE 16 Type II (SOC 1), SOC 2, and SOC 3 audits and reports ensures the security, privacy, and availability expected of a trusted service organization. For more information, call (877) 740-5028 or email contactus@onlinetech.com.
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