When her husband was diagnosed with cancer, Ann started a crash course learning about his complex business dealings.
He's also doing a European Computer Driving Licence course, learning how to build and fix PCs.
This service-learning course gives students hands-on experience while producing a valuable product for an organization that serves the community.
The University of Arizona offers training in them for medical students and a two-year distance-learning course for doctors and nurses.
The harder part, of course, is learning exactly what to say.
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If broadcast flag rules and technology were in place, it could keep a university from playing part of a news program for a distance-learning course taken over the Internet, or even impose restrictions on a teacher who records a documentary to show in class, she says.
Of course, like any learning tool, what you do with it ultimately up to you.
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Not everybody on the other side of the Atlantic, of course, is still learning the game.
During the course of our lives, learning becomes detached from creating experiences and getting feedback.
If more, of course, you grow from learning.
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Our journey to 2020 promises incredible opportunities, massive learning and, of course, some challenges along the way.
All agree that much of the benefit of undertaking an EMBA course comes from the interaction and learning that takes place between the students.
In order to enhance the effectiveness of the learning process, the course was designed with the intention of encouraging learners to identify with the characters on screen.
Theory and practice will be combined during the course for participants to transfer their learning experiences into draft practical guidance on how to sustainably manage sediment in the Sava River Basin.
In addition, the program, called ExpertONE, strives to establish the level of expertise a learner has coming into the course, including skills picked up learning on the systems of competitors like Cisco, Juniper or EMC.
Then of course the process of propagating machine learning about that weakness can go on, and as new threats are understood your petri dishes get better, your anomaly analyses get better and you just move on forward that way.
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Students can join a course, which becomes a powerful active learning community, without enrolling in a degree program or paying tuition.
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Cognitive dissonance is fundamental to learning, and, in every course, students should bump into something unexpected or unsettling.
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As an outcome oriented programme, it is vital that the course content and prospective results are accessible and that learning progression is monitored and realistic.
He showed a video on cutting-edge universities such as Berkeley in California, that offer students Web sites for each course offered, and integrate the Internet into the learning process.
The business of learning is a story that needs a frequent refresher course.
To be sure, more than 6 million students in the U.S. are now taking at least one course online, and 65 percent of higher education institutions say online learning is a critical part of their long-term strategy, according to a 2011 report from the Babson Survey Research Group .
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And if you're really ambitious, you can post a video of yourself learning all these numbers -- on the Internet, of course.
Armed with this strategy, she is much more likely to stay the course with the investment and the advisor, and to extend her experience by learning from it.
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From the ease of research that it affords teachers and students, down to actual online course work for students of all ages, more people have access to quality learning than ever before, thanks to the Internet.
Of course, if there were instead systems of assessments in a competency-based learning system built for students to take an assessment on-demand when they were ready to demonstrate mastery on specific competencies, we would see a different picture develop with assessments that left no doubt that they were different.
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Mild-mannered and self-effacing, Mr. Liodice transformed the annual conference from a cocktail-and-golf boondoggle cliche into a marketing TED-like event, with an inspiring and energetically relevant agenda, where the focus is on learning and useful dialogue (laced with networking, entertainment, and of course, a bit of cocktails and golf).
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These are the places where mostly poor people send their children for learning Koranic teaching, basic education, and the other attraction, of course, is that there is free boarding and lodging over there, and with the Pakistani educational system in shambles, this is a pretty attractive place for poor families to send their children.
The four-course syllabus is a response to the need for an indigenised, highly contextualised teaching and learning materials on various aspects of reporting Africa.
At the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, staff are using interactive lectures, field learning and peer-to-peer to sessions as a way of enhancing their course offerings.
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