Examining Elements of Quality within Online Education Programs in Higher Education
Kaye Shelton,
Jody Isernhagen
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Belize Crocodile--An Overview
This short video gives excellent real life footage of a Belize Crocodile in its natural environment. This is a great resource to help build background knowledge and to help make real world connections between nature and the classroom. (Less Than 3 Minutes)
Kuljot (with Luna)
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11.S196 Global Freshwater Crisis (MIT)
For the first time in history, the global demand for freshwater is overtaking its supply in many parts of the world. The U.N. predicts that by 2025, more than half of the countries in the world will be experiencing water stress or outright shortages. Lack of water can cause disease, food shortages, starvation, migrations, political conflict, and even lead to war. Models of cooperation, both historic and contemporary, show the way forward. The first half of the course details the multiple facets
ESD.00 Introduction to Engineering Systems (MIT)
Students in ESD.00 work on projects to address large, complex and seemingly intractable real-world problems, such as energy supply, environmental issues, health care delivery, and critical infrastructure (e.g., telecommunications, water supply, and transportation). The course introduces interdisciplinary approaches - rooted in engineering, management, and the social sciences - to considering these critical contemporary issues. Small, faculty-led teams select an engineering systems term project t
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Hypoglycemia (Spanish)
This patient education program discusses hypoglycemia including the symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment, and management of the condition. It also reviews the function of blood sugar in the body. This resource is a MedlinePlus Interactive Health Tutorial from the National Library of Medicine, designed and developed by the Patient Education Institute.
Common Core State Standards: High School
Visit two high school English and math classrooms in NYC who have already begun to adapt to the new Common Core standards, and see what changes teachers are making in their practice to adapt to the new standards. (14:14)
Alexandra Day in Peckham (1913)
Alexandra Rose Day is a charity fundraising event, inaugurated in 1912 on the 50th anniversary of the arrival in England of Alexandra of Denmark for her marriage to the future King Edward VII. This charming film follows a cheerful band of women in Peckham, London, as they sell artificial roses to raise funds for local hospitals.
Dvořák in the New World
For the first time in more than a century, Antonin Dvořák's original manuscript for Symphony No. 9, "From the New World," returned to the United States for a special one-day display at the Library of Congress. Dvořák scholar Michael Beckerman speaks on the role of African-American sources in the composer's conception of an American music. Eva Velická joins him for a discussion on "Manuscripts as Storytellers."
Michael Beckerman is Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Music at New York U
Romney wins New Hampshire
Jan. 10 - U.S. networks project that Mitt Romney won the New Hamshire primary. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
Week #003 Review, Wednesday Ascoltate = Listen Leggete = Read Ripetete = Repeat Rispondete = Answer Scrivete = Write Aprite i libri = Open your books Chiudete i libri = Close your books Fate l'esercizio = Do the exercise Capite? = Do you understand? Ancora una volta! = One more time! Attenzione! = Be careful! or Pay attention! Giusto! = Correct! Benissimo! = Very good! Sbagliato! = Wrong! Tutti insieme! = All together!
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TWC9: January 6, 2012 - C9 Video Queue, Silverlight 5, Metro and WP7 This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including:
How to Use Distort Filters in Photoshop
This six minute video shows how to use these types of files to alter images. Moves slowly and is motivating for some students.
Trouble for NYSE, D. Boerse deal
Jan 10 - European anti-competitive regulators are prepared to block the $9 billion merger of Germany's Deutsche Boerse and NYSE Euronext. Conway G. Gittens reports.
Luxury race heats up at Detroit show
Jan 10 - Dinner reservations? No problem with some of the new luxury cars unveiled at the Detroit auto show. Deborah Gembara reports from the Detroit auto show.
The Problem of Economic Calculation Since recent events helped socialist parties to obtain power in Russia, Hungary, Germany and Austria, and have thus made the execution of a socialist n
GOP rivals vow to stay in race after Romney wins in New Hampshire
Jan. 10 - Mitt Romney scored a big win in New Hampshire, and while other GOP candidates suffered disappointing losses, all vowed to continue fighting as the GOP race moves to South Carolina.
La Cité de Dieu, après-demain ? (audio)
Quand Rome est mise à sac le 24 août 410, des voix se lèvent s’interrogeant sur les raisons d’un tel désastre et sur le devenir de Rome. Demain qu’adviendra t-il de la Roma aeterna ? Déconcerté par ce pillage et soucieux d’éclairer les jugements, Saint Augustin décide alors de mener à bien son projet déjà ancien de composer une fresque théologique.
Il compose ainsi La cité de Dieu, œuvre qui oppose la cité terrestre et la cité céleste et qui
