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Pearson Launches 21 New On the internet Career Technical Education (CTE) Courses for Students in Grades 9-12

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Baltimore, MD (PRWEB) July 01, 2013

Pearson, the worlds leading finding out business, these days announced 21 new on the internet career technical education (CTE) courses for high school students interested in exploring a variety of careers and gaining profession-specific information. The courses are portion of the GradPoint and Connections Understanding suite of virtual and blended finding out solutions and will be obtainable to districts and schools in Fall 2013 and Spring 2014, respectively.

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These new courses are a wonderful way for students to attempt-out a career that interests them and due to the fact they are delivered on the internet, they offer much more flexibility and personalization for students while teachers are better in a position to focus on the wants of individual students, said Steven Guttentag, president of Connections Learning, a division of Pearson.

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Internationally Recognized School of Business Partners with Pearson Embanet to Launch Rigorous On the internet MBA

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Chicago, IL (PRWEB) June 25, 2013

Increasingly, students who want a flexible path to earning a degree are seeking to online studying applications to access high quality higher education. In response, larger education institutions around the nation are investing in comprehensive educational services that create and scale on the web applications that are higher top quality, rigorous and drive student achievement.

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Pearson Embanet, the major provider of online plan services, and the University of Marylands Robert H. Smith School of Company are announcing that they are partnering to launch an online MBA plan. Classes are scheduled to start in January 2014. The Smith School is an internationally recognized leader in management education and analysis and is one of 12 colleges and schools at the University of Maryland, College Park. The on the web MBA will offer you specializations in the regions of Finance, Accounting, Details Systems and Business Analytics, and Marketing. With a faculty that is regularly ranked in the leading ten by the Monetary Times and Bloomberg Businessweek, this system will give students experiential finding out possibilities through Action Finding out Projects. These hands-on group projects give students encounter working collectively with organizations and organizations in their local location and with partners about the globe.

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The Smith School is a community of people who foster development and advancement in the organization globe by empowering, difficult and nurturing each other, mentioned G. Anand Anandalingam, dean of the Robert H. Smith College of Enterprise. By supplying this rigorous system online, we will give tough-operating, driven, dilemma-solving students the knowledge and support to launch extraordinary careers.

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We look forward to supporting the University of Maryland in their technique to provide this high high quality degree on the web, said Dr. Gloria Pickar, Embanets Group President and Chief Academic Officer. The solutions we provide in the locations of advertising, enrollment, student help and course design will support the Smith Schools vision of generating this degree accessible to students no matter exactly where they reside.

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The MBA program at the Robert H. Smith School of Company is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Organization (AACSB). AACSB International is the premier accrediting agency for bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree programs in organization administration and accounting.

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For much more data about the on the internet MBA, visit http://onlinemba.umd.edu/.

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About the University of Marylands Robert H. Smith School of Enterprise&#13

The Robert H. Smith College of Company is an internationally recognized leader in management education and research. One particular of 12 colleges and schools at the University of Maryland, College Park, the Smith School delivers undergraduate, complete-time and component-time MBA, executive MBA, MS, PhD and executive education applications, as well as outreach solutions to the corporate neighborhood. The school delivers its degree, custom and certification applications in five finding out locations in the United States and China. Far more information about the Robert H. Smith School of Company can be identified at http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu.

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About the University of Maryland http://www.umd.edu&#13

The University of Maryland is the state’s flagship university and 1 of the nation’s preeminent public analysis universities. Ranked No. 19 amongst public universities by U.S. News &amp Planet Report, it has 32 academic applications in the U.S News Leading ten and 73 in the Prime 25. The Institute of Greater Education (Jiao Tong University, Shanghai), which ranks the world’s top universities based on study, puts Maryland at No. 38 in the globe and No. 13 amongst U.S. public universities. The university has developed six Nobel laureates, seven Pulitzer Prize winners, far more than 40 members of the national academies and scores of Fulbright scholars. The university is recognized for its diversity, with underrepresented students comprising one particular-third of the student population. For much more information about the University of Maryland, go to http://www.umd.edu.

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About Pearson Embanet&#13

Pearson is the worlds top studying firm, delivering educational supplies and services. Pearson, via its acquisition of Embanet, is the biggest provider of educational services for standard non-profit, fully on the web degree applications. These comprehensive solutions that help institutions create and scale their on the web applications contain plan technique, design, academic services, marketing and advertising and student recruitment, system and student services, and technology solutions. For a lot more data, visit http://www.embanet.com.

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Pearson Announces Cite 2013 Award Recipients

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Boston (PRWEB) Might 28, 2013

This years Pearson Cite 2013 award recipients are employed at Park University, Texas Christian University, Saint Leo University and Regent University. The awards are divided into two categories Excellence in On-line Administration and Excellence in Online Teaching and honor outstanding accomplishments in on the internet larger education. As component of Pearsons efforts to encourage and help excellence in on-line greater education that drives student good results, Pearson will donate $ 1,000 to the scholarship fund of every single winners decision.

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Dr. Michael Eskey (Park University) and Dr. Brian OConnell (Saint Leo University) received the Excellence in On-line Teaching award. Dr. Eskey is a tenured, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, and he serves as the Plan Coordinator of the Criminal Justice Department. As a plan coordinator, his function contains the recruitment, training and evaluation of one hundred online instructors. Furthermore, he serves on half-time release as an on the internet instructor evaluator for Park Distance Studying. This involves the formal observation of 90 on the web instructors in all disciplines, on an annual basis. Dr. Eskey has personally created ten online courses at the undergraduate level and eight courses at the graduate level for the criminal justice applications that he has taught since his retirement from the military in 2001.

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Dr. OConnell is an Associate Professor of Education in rural Madison, Florida, where he teaches in a plan that Saint Leo University offers at North Florida Community College. The system delivers 5 bachelors degrees developed for students who can not attend classes on the major campus, which includes the universitys highly respected elementary education program. In addition to teaching in the classroom, Dr. O’Connell has not too long ago completed improvement of the course, EDU427, Educational Assessment. Operating with the instructional style team, he focused on application and analysis workout routines utilizing data collected by the state, and enhanced student engagement and interest. He also models exceptional teaching by providing detailed rubrics and powerful feedback.

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The Excellence in On-line Administration award went to Ginger K. Zillges (Regent University) and Kerrie Conover (Texas Christian University). Ms. Zillges is an Assistant Vice President of On-line Finding out and Instructional Technologies at Regent University, exactly where she has served for almost 20 years in the field of distance learning. Overseeing the Center for Teaching and Learnings instructional employees, Ms. Zillges promotes faculty assistance, development and exemplar practices in online course style and teaching. Collaborating with Info Technology, Academic Affairs and Faculty, she helped launch the very first online M.B.A. and implemented the Good quality Matters Approach for on-line courses. Ms. Zillges has completed her course operate at Old Dominion University, where she is enrolled in the Ph.D. system in Instructional Design and Technologies.

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Ms. Conover has been a Finding out Management Method Administrator for over seven years at Texas Christian University. Her instructional style, instructional technologies, and troubleshooting abilities have positively impacted TCU, and provided crucial automation solutions for each face-to-face and on the web faculty members. She has created more than 100 video tutorials for faculty and students to access from the TCU web site, in order to supply quick solutions for widespread troubles and measures in adopting and using on the web understanding tools. Ms. Conover has also created on the internet orientation courses, which all distance finding out students must full, allowing students to familiarize themselves with online learning at TCU, and allowing the institution to pull essential information points for new students and determine at danger students from the starting.

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With a lot more than 6.7 million students taking at least one particular course on the web, on the internet understanding continues to supply elevated access to learners in pursuit of quality, versatile higher education, said John Dobbertin, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Operations and Services, Pearson. This years Cite award winners are outstanding examples of the driving force behind the prevalence of on the internet studying. We congratulate these leaders for their commitment to excellence in teaching and administration that promotes student achievement.

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For more info, visit http://www.pearsoncite.com.

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About Pearson&#13

Pearson is the worlds major learning company, offering educational materials and services, organization info by means of the Economic Instances Group, and customer publishing through the Penguin brand. Pearson serves learners of all ages about the globe, employing 41,000 individuals in a lot more than 70 nations. For a lot more information, pay a visit to http://www.pearson.com.

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