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If you are in the greater Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania area, this post is for you…well actually, it’s for your kids. We are running a 3 day Summer Day Camp from June 16-18th which promises to be lots of fun and great for high school kids. This is the third year of the camp with the mission […]
Continue Reading →There was an article today over at CNN titled “Desperately seeking Americans for factory jobs” that stated: There is a “critical shortage of machinists,” a common and crucial position in factories, said Rob Akers, vice president at the National Tooling and Machining Association. “Enrollment in this field in technical schools has been down for a […]
Continue Reading →In Pennsylvania, the job situation is rather bleak. More than 591,000 Pennsylvanians are jobless and the jobless rate has risen from 9.2 in June to 9.3 in July (doesn’t seem like much unless you are one of the .1 who lost your job.) More Pennsylvanians are out of work than any other time in the […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Remember a few years ago when Blackboard claimed to have invented e-learning. (Who invented e-learning? A patent dispute shakes up academic computing) and when Al Gore claimed to have invented the Internet (although this seems to be up for some debate.) In that spirt of “hey I invented…” another crazy is claiming to have invented […]
Continue Reading →As recently announced by Bersin & Associates, in the United States, corporate learning and development (L&D) expenditures dropped by more than 11 % in 2008. It seems likely that the cuts are will continue in 2009. The organization continues to report that the spending has fallen from $1,202 per learner in 2007 to $1,075 per […]
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Leave a Comment (4) →Well commercialization has finally impacted something as neutral and seemingly advertisement free as a student’s math test. A calculus teacher in San Diego, California sells ads on his test papers: $10 for a quiz, $20 for a chapter test and $30 for a semester final. Check out the USA Today article Ads on tests add […]
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Leave a Comment (6) →With all this talk about economic disaster, I thought I’d offer some “free e-learning stuff” to help make your day/week/month a little brighter. If we all posted a few free things then each of us could benefit each other and expand our own knowledge as well as others…a silver lining in this gray economic cloud. […]
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Leave a Comment (3) →Sorry to do this again but it is really on my mind. Ok, so one of the guys who wants $700 billion dollars as soon as possible to bail out the rich investment banks who greedily took on too much debt was, not too long ago, one of those people we are bailing out. Man […]
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