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Creating A Sustainable Future for Your Students

Attention Principals, Teachers, Community Members

The Collaborative for Sustainability and Regenerative Learning (CSRL) Presents:

Creating A Sustainable Future for Your Students - July 12-13, 2010

Drexel University Philadelphia, PA

Facilitated by Jaimie Cloud, Cloud Institute, New York, NY and Dr. John M. Gould, Drexel University, Director, CSRL

In this workshop, we will create a learning community that engages participants in hands-on activities that combine systems thinking, sustainable economics, and the science of sustainability. The two-day workshop is designed to increase participants' awareness, knowledge, and understanding of the core concepts, content, and habits of mind that characterize living and working toward a sustainable future.

You will leave with standards-based, interdisciplinary curriculum materials and the skills to being implementing for a sustainable future for your students and schools.

Who Should Attend: This learning experience is designed to enhance team learning, so sites are urged to bring stakeholders, including superintendents, school administrators, teachers, staff, and community leaders.

Cost: $180/person (Includes lunch on the first day). Bring a team of 4 and the 4th person is free. Single day registration: $100.00

For more Information and Registration go to: http://mobile.goodwin.drexel.edu/csrl or email: jmg97@drexel.edu

Online Learning Booming

The world of online learning, both at the K-12 and post-secondary level, is booming, according to those attending yesterday’s BMO Capital Markets’ 2008 Education Conference. CEOs from over 16 publically held companies (including Apollo/University of Phoenix, Capella University, K12, Inc.) presented a very optimistic outlook for continued growth in enrollments and the expansion of degrees online.

Yours truly was invited by BMO to be the lone representative from the online non-profit university sector (yes it’s a tough job, but someone had to do it), and provide the 300-plus attendees with my perspective of the issues and opportunities facing  non-profit colleges, like Drexel University, who  currently offer online degree programs. My read and comments, based on numerous studies and reports (i.e., Sloan-C), is that those non-profits institutions that are now offering online degrees will continue to grow (more students, more online programs), but fewer and fewer colleges currently not offering  online degrees  will elect to start offering online degrees for the first time. However, non-profit colleges will continue to pull students away from the for-profit colleges, as the non-profits learn how to properly scale their programs and how to successfully incentivizing their faculty to teach online.

That’s my 2 cents…..I welcome yours.

Ken Hartman

2008 National Distance Learning Week

November 10-14, 2008

Photo Left: Art Zamkoff and Mayor Nutter at the 2007 NDLW Awards

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The United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) will hold the 2008 National Distance Learning Week (NDLW), November 10-14, 2008.  NDLW is an annual initiative that generates greater awareness and appreciation for distance learning within the areas of pre-k-12 education, higher and continuing education, home schooling, as well as business, corporate, military, government, and telehealth markets.

“It is with great enthusiasm and excitement that USDLA launches the 2008 National Distance Learning Week,” says Dr. John G. Flores, CEO of USDLA.  “We expect this year’s event to be bigger and better than ever, reaching more people both online and on college campuses throughout the nation.”

For more information regarding activities for the 2008 NDLW, contact Dr. Kenneth Hartman, national committee chair, at 1.215.895.0501 or visit www.ndlw.org