The twentieth anniversary Great Teachers' Seminar was held August 2-7 at peaceful La Casa de Maria in Santa Barbara, site of the first and all subsequent Seminars. The Seminar coincided with La Fiesta de Santa Barbara, and many participants joined in the downtown festivities. Somehow eggs filled with fiesta confetti found their way back to La Casa and became an informal part of Seminar "events".
UCLA Extension has customized a popular online certificate program for community college educators. An effective way to prepare yourself to teach an online course is to take an online course! Through a cooperative agreement with @ONE, fees for these four courses represent a 30% discount on fees paid for similar courses offered through the UCLA Extension catalog. The courses are listed in the box below.
The overuse and undercompensation of part-time faculty in the California Community Colleges continues to be one of the major challenges the system faces in its efforts to provide quality education to the residents of the state.
Western Governors' University (WGU), like LA smog on a hot August afternoon, is spreading across the nation's post-secondary educational horizon. Embracing the latest technologies for distance education, WGU was designed to bring quality post-secondary programs via distance education modes to the folks in Utah, Colorado, and other states where mountainous terrain and long distances between college campuses make traveling to schools difficult.
You've probably heard by now that the system has received $100 million in funding for the Chancellor's proposal, "Partnership for Excellence."