Distance learning cuts put centre in jeopardy, teachers say

by the CBC

Alberta Education has reduced funding for a provincewide centre that offers online course. Teachers who instruct online and distance courses for Alberta students say their jobs are in jeopardy. Junior and senior high school students across the province can sign up for courses offered by the Alberta Distance Learning Centre if they live in rural areas that don’t offer them, or if they don’t go to a traditional school. But in September, Alberta Education cut the funding by about half to school boards that use the centre’s courses. Alberta Education had been covering the entire cost to the school boards plus 56 per cent of the distance learning centre’s expenses.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/distance-learning-cuts-put-centre-in-jeopardy-teachers-say-1.2445185

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Renowned UC San Diego Scientists Offer Free Online Climate Change Course

by UC San Diego

Four renowned scientists from the University of California San Diego and Scripps Institution of Oceanography are offering a free online climate change course starting in January 2014. “Climate Change in Four Dimensions: Scientific, Policy, International and Social” is one of the first massive open online courses (MOOC) being offered as a non-credit course by UC San Diego. The course is being taught by professors Charles Kennel, Naomi Oreskes, Richard Somerville and David Victor, with a special lecture by Veerabhadran Ramanathan. Students will view climate change from a variety of perspectives at the intersection of the natural sciences, technology, the social sciences and the humanities. The course also introduces new topics currently confronting the science and policy communities, such as geoengineering. The course provides the same quality learning and instruction that UC San Diego is known for, including complete video lectures and online activities to enhance learning and instruction.

http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/1609032

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