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A school with no walls |
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The distance learning solution
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By Perry Gil S. Mallari, Reporter
The right credential may spell the difference
between promotion and stagnation in one’s career. But for
individuals who are juggling their time between work and family,
getting additional education in a regular campus setting is
sometimes next to impossible.
Enter the solution: distance education. While
the concept of distance learning seems to be an ultramodern concept,
the idea actually dates back to 1728 when Caleb Philips taught the
new method of shorthand writing via correspondence. The University
of London offered its External Program in 1858 making it the first
university to offer distance-learning degrees. The establishment of
postal service during the 19th century gave way to the boon of
correspondence schools and colleges in the West.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Worse than unemployed
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Laid off, retrenched or shafted to four or three-day workweek? Has
the ongoing global economic recession found you bumming out in front
of you television instead of working for a living. Watch and feel
better by seeing people do jobs...
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PROCRASTINATOR: WHEN THE BOSS ISN’T LOOKING
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Calorific Brain Candy
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In the 21st century, to work invariably means sitting in front of a
computer. And to sit in front of a computer most often means being
on the Internet. And being on the net equates to wasting time
surfing the web. But then again, since time immemorial, work has
meant procrastination.
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SKEPTIC
TANK
By Tim Tayag
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What’s the crisis
got to do with it?
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Everybody is talking about the global economic crisis as if it were
the one and only reason for every disaster or mishap. I heard a
friend saying, “My company laid me off because of this world
economic crisis.”
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Facebook fun goes mobile with iPhone applications
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AUSTIN: Facebook is letting users of its flourishing
social-networking community play together on the road by using
Apple’s popular iPhone and iPod Touch mobile devices.
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PEOPLE
By Bob Garon
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Honesty
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The story is told by Vernon Grounds about the legendary Boston Red
Sox player, Ted Williams:
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