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.

About HEN:

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, 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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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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24-02-2012 13:10 Ten years ago, MIT helped launch a revolution in access to education when it announced it would place the core teaching materials from its entire curriculum online for anyone to use at no charge. Today, MIT OpenCourseWare shares materials from more than 2000 MIT courses and more than 250 universities around the world have joined MIT in publishing their own course materials openly. Sites like YouTube.edu, Khan Academy, OpenStudy.com have emerged to explore this new territory of informal online learning. In December, MIT announced a new online learning initiative, MITx, which will offer a portfolio of free courses through an online learning platform that features interactivity and assessment. In this presentation by Cecilia d'Oliveira, MIT OpenCourseWare's Executive Director and Shigeru Miyagawa, Chair of MIT OpenCourseWare's Faculty Advisory Committee and Head of MIT's Foreign Languages and Literatures Department, we'll examine the how open educational resources are changing the educational landscape and meeting the global demands for open knowledge.

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02-03-2012 10:22 Edvance360 Release 7.0. Edvance360 Learner Management System- Secure Social Network.

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02-03-2012 18:12 http://www.greenemath.com In this video, we continue to develop the skills needed to find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) also known as the (Greatest Common Divisor) (GCD).

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01-03-2012 13:04 Learn more at: http://www.bullseyeglass.com This project is a cleanly designed fused and slumped plate that incorporates reactive sheet glass and stringers. By following the step-by-step instructions you will apply basic plate-making and glass-cutting principles and learn how special colors and effects can be achieved when glass chemistries interact. *** The goal of our ongoing educational video series is to explore the full range of kiln-glass methods and cover the same lessons taught in regular Bullseye classes. This is an open-ended series of online lessons appropriate for everyone from beginners to advanced kilnformers. Lessons are designed by Bullseye instructors to provide foundational skills, inspiration, and new leading-edge approaches to kiln-glass. Downloadable firing schedules, product lists, and helpful links are included.

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