Showing posts with label global distance learning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label global distance learning. Show all posts

Thursday, June 18, 2020

Update Your Cyber-Security Risk Assessment

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The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated a remote working culture that started when high-speed internet became available at home and in coffee shops.
It’s now obvious that many more jobs can be done remotely than previously thought. COVID-19 also accelerated distance learning and telehealth services. Compliance policies written for the workplace, the classroom, and the doctor’s office will need to be rewritten to reflect this new remote reality. 
Here are five ways any organization can improve its cyber-security compliance.

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Point the Way Toward More Interactive Global Distance Learning Scenarios

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While abroad, Samuel Slover, 27, worked on social entrepreneurship initiatives, including microfinance programs, and taught English and business. All along, he felt under-qualified to teach the assigned curricula.

He knew there had to be a better way.  
To seize on this opportunity and bridge the expert and education gap, in 2010 Slover and his brother, who had a similar experience in Nepal and Honduras, launched Learn It Live, a web-based social-learning platform. The site’s goal is to bring online education courses to those in other countries and in the U.S.
Read the entire article: How Teaching English in Bolivia Sparked One Young Trep’s Bankable Business Idea