Sentences with phrase «open access students»

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With Semester Online being geared toward students already in traditional programs, its vision may seem more restrictive than that of sites that promise to open up university access to anyone, regardless of credential.

Targeting low - income high school / college students who are interested in coding, open government, and civic technology, the program offers mentoring, programming courses, resource access and an internship.

Why not buy into a system of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, where students can have immediate access to all the best lecturers in the country?

The majority opinion, issued by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, said that Hastings College of the Law's «all comers» policy, which required all groups to open all positions to all students, «is a reasonable, viewpoint - neutral condition on access to the student - organization forum.»

Our courses are open to users worldwide and the 1 day workshop has a 48 hr access window to cater for students in different time zones.

«Whether that means bringing learning opportunities to the fingertips of our students, opening the doors of global commerce to our small businesses, or just getting news and weather updates before workers head in for the day, broadband access has become an important part of our lives.

Through the Open Education Resources initiative, students have access to everything from classic literature to course textbooks.

Details of the process can be found in a paper published recently in the open - access journal Science Advances, the first author of which is research student Luca Banszerus.

Last month, UC Berkeley opened the Faculty Center for Leadership in Educational Access and Diversity to support graduate students and faculty members who want to conduct research aimed at increasing diversity in their disciplines.

«What we found was that when larger amounts of quantum information are encoded on a single photon, the copies will get worse and hacking even simpler to detect,» said Frédéric Bouchard, a University of Ottawa doctoral student and lead author of an open access publication that appeared this month in the journal Science Advances.

Evolution is a difficult concept for many students at all levels, however, a study publishing on May 23 in the open access journal PLOS Biology has demonstrated a simple cost - free way to significantly improve students» understanding of evolution at the secondary level: teach genetics before you teach them evolution.

«Both of those policy agendas are occurring simultaneously: the push to have top - notch universities and a system of open access that allows students from all backgrounds to get an education,» Cantwell said.

Jon Tennant, an open - access advocate and a Ph.D. student at Imperial College London, likes the concept.

LinC (Lessons in Conservation) Online Journal American Museum of Natural History's Center for Biodiversity Conservation (CBC), and the Network of Conservation Educators and Practitioners (NCEP) An open - access journal that provides educators and students free, downloadable lessons on biodiversity conservation.

Our organization has a long history in supporting science education — be that through the enrichment of the curriculum of schools, the employment of students through co-op programs and summer jobs, by enabling post-doctoral research, or through opening access to our unique facilities and expertise.

New open access options include free open access for ASN student - authored e-articles and discounts for ASN members.

ParentVUE and StudentVUE Access: I am a parent >> I am a student >> Contact Privacy The Hot Stove is open for business.

In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.

Much of this opposition goes back decades to critical legal battles that opened up access to general education classes for students with disabilities who had previously been excluded from them.

Peltz is passionate about teaching with technology and opening Web access because he believes it's (a) a powerful way to engage students, and (b) the only way to teach kids how to safely and productively use technologies that they will use — and misuse — whether the school restricts them or not.

For students at Harlem Educational Activities Fund (HEAF), that means trips to museums, partnerships with higher education institutions, opportunities for student travel, etiquette classes and access to a wide variety of professionals who can help to open doors for workplace exploration and internships.

That question inspired the visioning that opened the path for Florida to give students access not only to online courses from FLVS, but eventually offerings from a multitude of providers to meet the diverse needs of today's students.

I was hopeful that this statement would carve out space between the two sides, offering a compromise position reflecting the principles of both and opening a path for more disadvantaged students to access great schools.

This or similar approaches (e.g., Kingsland's proposal to grant larger vouchers for at - risk students) are more likely to yield wider private school participation — and therefore greater access to quality schools — than a strict open admissions mandate.

Course Access not only opens new funding channels to those students and families, but it can also lead the way in shifting to embrace new models of teaching and learning that disentangle the stubborn stronghold that geography and zip code have on opportunity.

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They created a student group, which attracted the support of other students interested in the subject, and by January, they had partnered with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, which is advising on ways to ensure open - access course materials for teachers on the internet.

As we enter the world of high - powered notebook computers, broadband internet connections, 3 - dimensional curricula, open - source product development, and internet - based games, both co-operative and competitive, students will learn by accessing dynamic, interactive instructional materials that provide information to each student at the level of accomplishment he or she has reached.

In recent years, some of the country's leading museums have used Pachyderm — an open source software package accessed using a standard Web browser — to create compelling, interactive CDs, DVDs, and online learning experiences that complement and enhance exhibits for both teachers and students.

In fact, this analogy might be helpful to use when opening an online course for student access.

This public «edu - trip of open learning» is just a taste of what primary, secondary and post-secondary schools are able to offer if they elect to become «connected and transparent learning environments,» granting students, teachers and leaders access to today's social media tools.

The beauty of that is it's all live and everyone can access and edit it at the same time - the teacher just had to have tabs open and could see all the students working, and had the little chat box on the right hand side of the page where they could respond to questions.

Students must be online,» argues one of the respondents to a recent UNESCO questionnaire about the potential of communication and information technologies (ICT) to bring quality, open and flexible higher education to women and men, including those who can not access traditional higher education.

Giving young people relatable role models, who have sat in the same seats as them, is an extraordinarily powerful way to raise all students» aspirations, and open up a world of possibilities to which they would not otherwise have access.

Two open access articles I wrote about how to teach students about their brains are:

It can provide students with open access to a wide range of high - quality educational resources and the freedom to explore those resources, as well as opportunities to receive immediate feedback.

They are also open to a host of school reforms ranging from high - stakes student accountability to merit pay for teachers to school vouchers and tax credits that would give low - income families greater access to private schools.

The Keynote speeach by the Education Secretary was followed by a presentation from Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, who discussed how open ‑ source and open - content technology is changing the way we access information, and how educators can help their students take advantage.

The implication is that with no government requirement for open admissions or standard measurement, historically higher - performing private schools would expand access to students eligible for vouchers.

If you don't have access to virtual reality viewfinders, students can still open the YouTube video and move it in all directions for a 360 - degree view.

However, even with limited access, with careful planning, some risk taking, and an open mind, teachers can successfully use technology to enhance their teaching and bring learning to life for their students.

This would potentially open more and higher quality options to disadvantaged students than they would have had merely from gaining more access to existing options.

For example, they note how open - access institutions in California have turned students away in recent years due to budget cuts.

While open access supposedly equalizes students» access to education, according to a study by MIT education researcher Justin Reich and Harvard Graduate School of Education's John Hansen, even for online learning, the same socioeconomic hurdles exist.

«It can give students access to great teachers... enable them to tap into resources they would never find in a school's media center... help them personalize their learning... open doors to forge networks with other students across the world.»

The Open Access Dilemma How can community colleges better serve underprepared students?

The offerings proved popular with students and paved the way for the open - access online learning movement.

Work tables replace desk rows; display and presentation areas are sport examples of student work; students have ready access to open Internet with strong bandwidth, varied computer models from media - ready notebooks to high end media work stations accompanied with a variety of technology tools replace printed text books.

That mindset is behind Mr. Johnson's initiatives to elevate learning standards and open access to rigorous courses to all students in Rockville Centre, beginning in 1995, when the district began a shift to require all 8th graders to take algebra.

Curriki English Language Arts To help equalize access to education globally, Curriki makes world - class learning materials freely available to educators, students, and parents around the world by providing free and open resources to everyone.