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11-05-2012 07:30 The Mind series is an American English course that caters to young adults from a pre-A1/beginner level to a C1/advanced level. Watch this demonstration of our online content.

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Purdue University on Friday formally kicked off a new online education initiative that it hopes extends the Purdue brand globally and even pulls in additional revenue down the road.

PurdueHUB-U will offer courses via an Internet portal that offers video lectures, online interaction with other students and electronic submission of homework and tests.

Purdues initiative, which will be funded with $2 million over its first four years, is similar to an initiative announced May 2 by Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Those schools pledged a combined $60 million to launch edX, which will offer online courses and give students a certificate of completion at the end. Such a certificate from a well-regarded institution couldproponents of online education predictbecome valuable among employers.

Purdue hopes demand for its HUB-U initiative becomes self-sustaining in five years.

Purdue offered a certificate of completion recently for a HUB course in nanotechnology. The course was taken by 900 students from 27 countries, most of whom paid $30 each.

"Online education is transforming higher education, flipping classroom dynamics and reaching into the farthest corners of the world," Purdue President France Cordova told the universitys board of trustees, according to a statement released by Purdue. "The winners will be those who have the platform, can be cost competitive and capture the imagination of the learner.

The HUB-U technology also will be used to transform on-campus courses at Purdue, according to Provost Tim Sands. In those courses, students would watch lectures online outside of class and spend class time for what used to be homeworkproblem-solving and group activitieswith the aid of professors.

PurdueHUB-U is one of several revenue-boosting initiatives Cordova has launched in her final year as Purdues president. The university is expected to name her replacement this summer.

With state support not keeping up with inflationand actually declining in recent yearsPurdue is turning to out-of-state and international students to help. During Cordovas tenure, the percentage of out-of-state students at Purdue has risen from 40 percent to 50 percent. Thats significant because out-of-state tuition is $27,000nearly three times as much as for in-state students.

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Massive open online courses combine the best of college -- exceptional instruction -- with the best of technology -- online interactive learning. Is this the future of efficient, effective education?

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In the historic sweep of technology, higher education stands apart as a bastion of old-fashioned thinking. But in anticipation that the information revolution is coming for colleges, Ivy League colleges are competing to create online classes without the Ivy League price tag and without the Ivy League admission hurdles. In a recent article in the New Yorker, the President of Stanford, John Hennessy said, "There's a tsunami coming."

Daphne Koller, a professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and the co-founder of Coursera, a free online classroom, believes that Hennessy is right. "The tsunami is coming whether we like it or not," she said. "You can be crushed or you can surf and it is better to surf."

Coursera is a massive online open classroom -- or MOOC -- that operates in conjunction with four top universities - Stanford, University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan, and Princeton. Co-founded by Koller and Andrew Ng, Coursera currently offers forty classes on topics ranging from poetry to robotics. Like a traditional class, each online class is comprised of a series of video lectures with PowerPoint slides. Students can participate in discussion boards and are graded on the assignments. Students who complete the course with passing grades receive a certificate of completion.

Earlier this month, Coursera was joined by another Ivy League MOOC, edX. EdX, a joint education venture run by MIT and Harvard, will begin offering online classes in Fall 2012. About 120,000 students signed up for the first MITx course, "Circuits and Electronics,'' in March. In a video on their website, President, Anant Agarwal, explained that like Coursera, edX classes will be open to anyone.

Students who complete the course would be offered a certificate, rather than college credit.

Coursera and edX have more in common with the Khan Academy than with the typical online classes offered by most colleges and for-profit enterprises, like the University of Phoenix. The Khan Academy began as a series of lectures given by Sal Khan, a hedge fund manager, to help his cousin with her math homework. He uploaded his explanations to algebra problems to YouTube and was surprised when his videos began to attract a huge following. With backing by the Gates Foundation and Google, the Khan Academy now features 3,200 videos on everything from math to history.

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Tuesday, May 9th, 2012, Harvard and MIT announced the creation of edX. This is a new partnership in online education. These top schools have partnered together to officer online classes that are completely free. With the explosion of online learning, the site, Aspiring Nurse, will be able to help students earn online degrees.

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Two of the top college institutions, MIT and Harvard, have announced their collaboration and creation of online courses. Distance education has gained popularity in the last decade, and this is one of it's crowing achievements. These courses are of no charge, and students will be able to earn certificates in mastery. For students that have decided that they want to earn a degree through online education, Aspiring Nurse, will help them get a competitive education.

Online education is continuing to rise. Over 8 million college students have taken an online course in 2011. Online education has changed the way that students learn. Almost 70% of academic leaders call online eduction 'absolutely critical' to their institution's academic strategy. This is an opinion that has grown more than 20% over the past 8 years. More than of instructors believe that the learning outcomes from online classes are the same as face-to-face courses.

Potential students who want to to enroll in nursing programs just have to go the the site to find all of the information that they would ever need on this career. Aspiring nurses will also be able to follow links to be able to find a lot of all of the online certified nurse programs, and even by state. They can choose which school they think would best fit them. The site also offers great tools to help aspiring nurses by selecting options from a drop down menu, students can also choose courses by their interest in major. Aspiring nurses now do not have to spend long hours looking through information on how to become a nurse, where they can get their online degrees, or what they should expect when taking online nursing courses.

About Aspiring Nurse Aspiring Nurse is focused on making sure that prospective medical students get the education from the school that they will benefit the most from. For the majority of these students, online programs are the types of programs that they need to be able to accomplish all of their responsibilities. Online programs allow students to choose where and when they complete their coursework. The tools and services that are offered on the Aspiring Nurse website have helped thousands of students find the perfect school, get the medical career of their choice, and start their new career with a competitive nurse salary.

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09-05-2012 09:14 Approximately 2000 soldiers from 2 Canadian Mechanized Brigade were in Simcoe County to practise maneuvers essential to succeed on any mision . This is something they have not been able to do in recent years because they were focused on skills specific to the Afghanistan mission .

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09-05-2012 09:34 Approximately 2000 soldiers from 2 Canadian Mechanized Brigade were in Simcoe County to practise maneuvers essential to succeed on any mision . This is something they have not been able to do in recent years because they were focused on skills specific to the Afghanistan mission .

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Job title: Project Administration Officer Type: Full Time Duty Station: Hanoi with national travel as required Duration of assignment: 1 year with possible extension Direct supervisor: Project Manager

PROJECT BACKGROUND: The Intergenerational Deaf Education Outreach Project (IDEO) is implemented by World Concern Development Organization (WCDO) in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) through four years (2011 2015) in four provinces of Hanoi, Thai Nguyen, Hue and Ho Chi Minh City. The Project is funded by the Japanese Social Development Fund, entrusted to the management of the World Bank.

Project Goal:

To assist young deaf children to integrate into mainstream society, by piloting an innovative joint family and institution-based delivery system comprising screening, family support, and preschool services.

Project Components:

1.Demonstrating joint family-institution pre-school education for deaf children and developing essential knowledge base 2.Developing professional human resources for pre-school deaf education 3.Building capacity and partnerships for the deaf communities and raising awareness for general public 4.Monitoring and evaluation 5.Project management

JOB SUMMARY: The Administration Officer provides administrative support to the operations of the IDEO project, carry out all administrative works and ensuring the smooth functioning of administrative systems under the project consistent with WBs national execution mode and World Concern policies.

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Report to Project Manager

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES - Manage communication duties as telephone, faxes, emails, mails; - Ensure the project filling system (soft and hard copies) is in order and updated; - Assist in visa procedures for project international consultants/ staff/ visitors as needed. - Provide logistical arrangements for project-related travel (transportation, accommodation etc.) - Maintain an updated inventory of all supplies and equipment and prepares guidelines for the proper use and maintenance of office equipment and properties; - Undertake necessary translation/interpretation tasks; - Assist IDEO project activities and its team to facilitate the implementation of the project, including providing secretariat support to meetings, workshops and trainings, drafting correspondents etc.; - Maintain the website activities, include writing and updating the news on to the website; - Prepare annual and quarterly work plan of administration activities; - Assist in other duties as required by the Project Manager.

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Leslie Glickman doesn't like to call herself the yoga queen of Boca Raton. But after 20 years she's so well known, her master class will be center stage at National Mom's Nite Out at Town Center at Boca Raton. You can also find her in Sanborn Square on Saturday mornings, a new city perk to help generate foot traffic downtown.

That's Glickman looking half her age holding court on the floor, as bloggers relax on mats for a preview of "Zen for the Mom" from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday in the Nordstrom wing of the mall. Mothers are invited free and without the children for a breather: meditation, music, massage, a Lululemon Athletica fashion show, and gentle exercise before the mad rush of Mother's Day on May 13.

Guess whose picture is in the yoga and running gear store? That's right, Glickman, whose business is called Yoga Journey. A walking ad for yoga, she turned to instructing after co-owning Michael's Body Scene gym in Boca Del Mar. "I still teach there," she said.

The Saturday morning class came through a city worker and her volunteer work with Making Strides Against Breast Cancer, the walk in Mizner Park in October. "This is my community and we should be creating community through yoga," Glickman said, adding that's she up to about 40 devotees every Saturday morning.

At a California Pizza Kitchen food tasting later, founder Maria Bailey said she was relieved not to have to "hop on a plane" to one of 1,100 National Mom's Nite Outs she started five years ago.

She said 133 malls are doing this now. "This started with a tweet that everyone felt like Mother's Day is so much work. Suddenly, there were 800 events across the country."

Now her own brand with the large agency BSM Media in Pompano Beach and clients like Walmart, the author and Mom Talk Radio host said she'll tweet from the event at the mall in Boca. Bailey's event web site is momsniteout.com/.

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WALNUT CREEK -- Although there was a slight chill in the air on a recent overcast Thursday morning, a group of people showed up to stretch.

As yoga mats were arranged in a semicircle at the entrance of the Ruth Bancroft Garden, Pleasant Hill yoga teacher Jan Enderle led the students through a series of gentle, flowing movements.

"Outside yoga is a little different. Instead of closing ourselves from the world, we're going to bring everything in," said Enderle, who guided students to the benefits of each yoga pose and movement.

She explained that her style, called Sugi Yoga, emphasizes gentle movements that encourage participants to be mindful of their bodies to ensure a pose or movement doesn't cause any pain. Enderle said she invites students to "find a place where it's comfortable and stay there." The adage "no pain, no gain," doesn't have a place in her class, she said.

After exploring the parks, trails and open space of Contra Costa County for several years, Enderle received training and certifications in horticulture and natural landscape interpretation. Soon after, she took up yoga teacher training at what was then Sugi Yoga studio in Pleasant Hill in 2004.

Enderle's first introduction to yoga "all started with a book and a TV show," when she was 20 years old.

"I did my yoga off and on for several years as I was hiking but hadn't combined the two," said Enderle, who took up backpacking in high school. "I always hiked

Today, Enderle has blended her two passions -- hiking and yoga -- and is offering them through Yoga Nature Adventures for the public's enjoyment.

She started inviting people on yoga hikes and soon developed a following, she said.

"Now, I can't go hiking anywhere without scoping out a great yoga spot," said Enderle, who also teaches at Windbell Wellness Center in Pleasant Hill.

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