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Annual Report Provides Unmatched Insights into Prospective Student Demand for Online Degrees and Opportunities for Growth in Sector

Hoboken, New Jersey, January 25, 2012 – EducationDynamics, higher education’s leading marketing information and technology services company, today released its 2011-12 eLearning Index, complete with five-year trends and analysis. The annual report delivers the most comprehensive review of the online education market currently available, providing unparalleled intelligence to help colleges and universities as they consider entering the market or expanding their catalog of online programs. The index evaluates data from more than 3,400 degree programs offered by more than 200 accredited institutions, and not only reveals the most popular online degrees, but also highlights growth opportunities related to areas of study where prospective student demand is not yet met.

“For more than five years, the eLearning Index has been required reading for colleges and universities as they develop their online program and course offerings,” said Carol Aslanian, Senior Vice President of Aslanian Market Research at EducationDynamics. “This incredible resource takes the guess work out of the online education market, enabling institutions to better determine what program levels, fields of study and majors will serve students best, while also providing ROI.”

EducationDynamics first published the eLearning Index in 2007; since then, several interesting trends have emerged regarding the shape of demand for online programs. Among the findings:

Associate’s level Health Programs have risen from number three to being number one, replacing Business, which has fallen to number two.

Bachelor’s level demand has remained relatively unchanged with Business degrees maintaining the largest percentage of market demand, followed by Humanities, Social Sciences and Health Professions.

MBA and other Business masters degrees have seen the most precipitous decline in demand as a percentage of market-share, dropping from number one to number four.

Education degrees have seen the greatest demand growth, relative to percent of market share, moving from number three in the 2007 report, to number one in 2011.

Doctoral degrees in the field of Education have remained the largest field of study demanded by prospective students. In the same period, degrees in the Health Professions dropped from number two to number four, with Social Science jumping from number four to number two.

The 2011-12 eLearning Index analyzes data collected in 2010 from eLearners.com, an EducationDynamics web resources that connects prospective students with online degree programs. During each quarter of 2010, EducationDynamics examined prospective student interest in more than 3,400 degrees listed on eLearners.com offered by more than 200 colleges and universities of all institutional types and categorized into one of four degree levels (e.g., associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate), across eight fields of study (e.g., education, engineering and science, visual and performing arts, etc.) and 96 majors (e.g., business administration, design, music, etc.).

Three core indices drive the analyses and resulting identification of degrees with high student interest and opportunity for growth: the eLearning Demand Index, eLearning Supply Index and eLearning Growth Index. Each index score provides an evaluation of degree level, field of study and major as it relates to demand, supply and growth in the online education marketplace.

Below are the top-line results of the 2011-12 eLearning Demand Index by degree level:

Rank Associate’s Bachelor’s Master’s Doctorate
1 Health Professions Business Education Education
2 Business Humanities
& Social Sciences Health Professions Humanities
& Social Sciences
3 Humanities Health Professions Humanities
& Social Sciences Business
4 Education Education Business Health Professions
5 Criminal Justice Computer & Criminal Justice Criminal Justice
& Law Information Sciences & Law & Law

EducationDynamics has made an executive summary of the 2011-12 eLearning Index available online; however, to order a complete copy of the report, colleges and universities should contact Carol Aslanian at 201.377.3321 or caslanian@educationdynamics.com.

About EducationDynamics
EducationDynamics is higher education’s leading marketing information and technology services company dedicated to helping institutions find, enroll and retain students. Its content-rich and highly visible education websites, including EarnMyDegree.com, EducationConnection.com, eLearners.com, GradSchools.com, StudyAbroad.com, TestDriveCollege.com, TestDriveGradSchool.com and its special interest microsites, make EducationDynamics the premier provider of qualified prospective students for colleges and universities. In addition, the company offers a full suite of Web-delivered services proven to drive enrollment growth and reduce student attrition, as well as other innovative solutions including LeadWatchLive, its Web-based inquiry management system. Through Aslanian Market Research, the company brings decades of proprietary research, unparalleled market and student intelligence and best practice insights to clients. For more information, visit http://www.educationdynamics.com/.

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Clarifying Career PC Home-Study Online Training Courses For Microsoft MCSA Tech Support

January 9, 2012 TomichRosenau

The Microsoft MCSA (Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator) course is a great basis for men and women looking to get into supporting networks. So if you want to get going or have previous knowledge but want to formalise that with an acknowledged certification, the right training exists for you. Each of these categories needs a specialised track, so make sure you’ve got the correct program in advance of getting going. Identify a provider that takes the time to understand you, and what you’d like to do, and can give you the clear facts to make your decision.

Coming across job security these days is incredibly rare. Businesses frequently drop us from the workforce with very little notice – as and when it suits them. We can however locate security at the market sector level, by looking for high demand areas, coupled with a lack of qualified workers.

Using the IT business as an example, a recent e-Skills analysis brought to light a national skills shortage around the UK of over 26 percent. Showing that for every 4 jobs available across computing, there are only 3 trained people to do them. Fully trained and commercially educated new staff are accordingly at a complete premium, and it seems it will continue to be so for a long time. We can’t imagine if a better time or market settings will exist for gaining qualification for this hugely growing and developing market.

Every program under consideration has to build towards a nationally (or globally) recognised exam at the end – not some little ‘in-house’ printed certificate to hang in your hallway. You’ll find that only recognised certification from the major players like Microsoft, Cisco, CompTIA and Adobe will have any meaning to employers. Hop over to NewCareerCourses.co.uk for current specifics.

IT has become one of the more exciting and ground-breaking industries that you could be a part of. Being up close and personal with technology is to be a part of the massive changes that will impact the whole world for generations to come. We’ve only just begun to see just how technology will define our world. The internet will massively revolutionise how we view and interact with the rest of the world over the years to come.

Should receiving a good salary be high on your wish list, then you’ll be happy to know that the average salary of IT employees in general is considerably greater than with the rest of the economy. It’s no secret that there is a substantial nationwide need for qualified IT professionals. In addition, with the constant growth in the marketplace, it looks like this will be the case for years to come.

Please understand this most important point: You have to get round-the-clock 24×7 instructor and mentor support. We can tell you that you’ll strongly regret it if you let this one slide. Beware of institutions that use ‘out-of-hours’ call-centres – with your call-back scheduled for normal office hours. This is useless when you’re stuck and need an answer now.

If you look properly, you’ll find the top providers who give students direct-access support at all times – even in the middle of the night. If you opt for less than support round-the-clock, you’ll quickly find yourself regretting it. It may be that you don’t use it during late nights, but what about weekends, early mornings or even late evenings at some point.

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Proud Business Educator Offers Tried and True Tips to Help Others Succeed

November 21, 2011 flashnewsrelease Leave a comment

Professional business manager Douglas Bartley continues to educate another generation of leaders with his new book A How-To Manual on Human Resource Problems.

Houston, TX (USA), Monday – November 21, 2011 — Professional business manager Douglas Bartley continues to educate another generation of leaders with his new book A How-To Manual on Human Resource Problems. A retired University of Texas professor, Bartley’s previously published text book, Job Evaluation: Wage & Salary Administration, was used by about 250 universities and business schools. He hopes his new business resource, available through Halo Publishing International, will be used in classrooms throughout the world to teach students how to succeed as managers, and also at companies, small and large, to assist them with improving their management techniques.

“In his new book, Douglas Bartley shares his expertise and success in improving company human resource and business management efforts,” said Publisher Lisa Umina. “A How-To Manual on Human Resource Problems will help businesses managers do a better job that will lead to a more successful operation, and teaches a new generation of managers to run companies efficiently and effectively,” Umina said.

Born in Pinkneyville, Illinois, a small town about 60 miles east of St. Louis, Bartley said he learned at a young age that he needed an education to succeed. He also learned early in life how to cope with sadness after both his twin brother and mother died in separate years. Bartley was raised by his aunt, who he said provided a very loving home. He went to college for two years before serving in the World War II as a navy officer. After the war, Bartley earned degrees in education and business at the University of Illinois and University of Pittsburgh, and spent much of his career managing various operations throughout the world for the Heinz Company. He later worked as a consultant in Human Resource and Factory Management for 35 different companies in 17 countries. Bartley said he earned good marks in college, was an accomplished athlete and worked two jobs most of his life. He also married his wife, Ruth, and they have two daughters and a son.

“I hope to share my expertise to help others succeed in business,” Bartley said. The author has been a regular contributor to professional trade journals throughout the United States and has received numerous awards for his work and contributions in education. Bartley now resides in Elmhurst, Illinois.

To reach this author, call 630-617-4887. To order A How-To Manual on Human Resource Problems, visit http://www.halopublishing.com.

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Flat Classroom Project at YCIS Beijing

March 4, 2011 EPR Network Leave a comment

(Beijing) — Once a week, Coco Yu walks into her Year 4 classroom at Yew Chung International School of Beijing (YCIS Beijing), logs onto a computer and starts communicating with other children her age who are located in schools stretching from England to India.

Yu is one of dozens of students at YCIS Beijing who are participating in a global collaborative project that joins together primary students from around the world via the Internet and Web 2.0 technologies, including Wikispaces and Ning, an online service that allows members to create social networks.

The project is called Flat Classroom. It is part of an emerging trend in internationally aware schools, like YCIS Beijing, that embrace a holistic and full-rounded educational approach to work collaboratively with others around the world in order to create students who are competitive and globally-minded. One of the main goals of the project is to “flatten” or lower the classroom walls so that two or more classes are joined virtually to become one large classroom.

“In Flat Classroom, we work a lot with computers and we go to Wiki, and we type what we do in Beijing. Maybe we Skype, and we talk to other children around the world, for example, we have a school in Mumbai, a school in England and Mill Creek and the US,” Yu, who is 9years old, said.

YCIS Beijing teachers who take part in the program say they can immediately see the perceptions of their students about the world and their place in it change as a result of participation in the project, which incorporates themes and lesson plans from “The World is Flat,” a ground-breaking book authored by the New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. Students also work collaboratively on projects with their peers located in different schools around the world. On February 21st at 8am, students used Skype to video chat with the primary students and parents at a US primary school who were attending their back-to-school night. It was an exciting link for both primary classes involved who exclaimed cheers when the video connection occurred, followed by a question and answer period that bounced back-and-forth between times zones.

“Of course, students have discovered similarities between themselves and other students located at the other participating schools,” said Primary Year 4 teacher, Heather Davis.

“They also note the differences as well. It is through these similarities and differences that our students have expressed the most learning. They find it fascinating that the same hobbies, food or entertainment enjoyed by them is enjoyed by other students as well. Conversely, they are intrigued by the holidays and traditions of different countries and are surprised when preconceived notions they had about other countries are challenged and clarified with reality.”

The Flat Classroom Project is incorporated mostly during IT time at YCIS Beijing but also crosses over into other subject areas, including English, math, history and Chinese. Students, for example, learn how to correspond in English with their counterparts in different countries or study the history of the countries in which their peers are living.

From February 25 – 27, a special Flat Classroom Conference will be held in Beijing. It will include students and educators discussing the future of education through the integration of technologies, including wikis, blogs, social networking and multi-media storytelling, into learning environments.

About Flat Classroom
The Flat Classroom Project is a global collaborative project that joins together middle and senior high school students. The project was co-founded by Vicki Davis (Westwood Schools, USA) and Julie Lindsay (Beijing (BISS) International School, China) in 2006. The Flat Classroom Project 2006 is was featured in Chapter 13, ‘If it’s not happening it’s because you’re not doing it’, of the latest edition of Thomas Friedman’s book, The World is Flat’ upon which it was based. One of the main goals of the project is to ‘flatten’ or lower the classroom walls so that instead of each class working isolated and alone, 2 or more classes are joined virtually to become one large classroom. This is done through the Internet using Web 2.0 tools such as Wikispaces and Ning.

Additional sister projects to the Flat Classroom Project include the Horizon Project, and it’s replacement since 2009 the Net Generation Education Project, created in conjunction with Don Tapscott and ‘Grown Up Digital’, based on the Horizon Report released annually by New Media Consortium and Educause; the Digiteen Project with the aim of promoting better online citizenship through research and discussion culminating in each school taking action within their own community to promote this; and Eracism, a global student debate that includes a virtual world component.

About Yew Chung International School Beijing
Located in the scenic Honglingjin Park in the heart of downtown Beijing, Yew Chung International School of Beijing celebrates 15 years of educating students of the city’s expatriate community. YCIS Beijing is a fully accredited school by CIS, NEASC and NCCT, and is part of the Yew Chung Education Foundation with over 5,000 students across campuses in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Chongqing, Qingdao and Silicon Valley (USA). Providing Beijing’s expatriate community a quality education across a broad spectrum ranging from early childhood to senior secondary education, the school offers a unique richness and diversity of both Eastern and Western cultures that equip students to be bilingual, academically competitive, caring and globally-minded individuals. For more information, visit www.ycis-bj.com.

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Florida Social License Renewal Approaches

February 5, 2011 deejchn1 Leave a comment

Boca Raton, FL – February 5, 2011 – The day is fast approaching for social workers, mental health counselors and marriage and family therapists in the state of Florida to have their licenses renewed. This is a requirement in the state of Florida, and renewals must be postmarked or submitted online by March 31st, 2011.

According to Dee Cohen, LCSW, “Busy social workers can easily forget to take the thirty ceu credits that are due by March 31st and required for license renewal.” The specific requirements for license renewal can be found at naswfl.org and we encourage all social workers to take the time to sit down, and properly look these over. Out of the thirty credits required, three of them must be a course on ethics and boundary issues, two continuing education credits will be on medical error prevention and another two will need to cover domestic violence issues. All thirty credits can be taken online or through homestudy courses but they must an approved provider and should list their number next to the course offering for verification.

It’s also important to remember the potential penalties that might be leveled if you were to attempt to act as an unlicensed social worker. Keep your certificates and proof of course completion in a safe place in the event of an audit.

Finally for more detailed articles and information on mental health issues, social work programs and msw continuing education courses you can visit www.socialworkprograms.org. This website has some of the latest and most in-depth information about the mental health field, and is an excellent way to stay abreast of new developments. Articles are also provided on social worker job options, scholarships for school and working with clients.

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Mark W. Montgomery, DMD: Addressing Core Office Principles of Dentistry

February 4, 2011 flashnewsrelease Leave a comment

Dr. Montgomery has been a leader and innovator across a number of continuing education fronts in the dental industry. If you want to know what is new and useful in dentistry, the “go-to guy” is definitely Mark Montgomery.

Salt Lake City, UT, February 04, 2011 — Dr. Montgomery has been a leader and innovator across a number of continuing education fronts in the dental industry. If you want to know what is new and useful in dentistry, the “go-to guy” is definitely Mark Montgomery.

As an early adopter, he has embraced new methods and systems for the profession with considerable enthusiasm and precision. Many of these new applications over the past 30 years of his practice are now mainstream; as a matter of fact, there are too many to list in this short release. Often, Dr. Montgomery has gone on to become the authority and instructor for these new standards for care.

In talking with Dr. Montgomery, ( http://www.MarkMontgomeryDMD.com ) he feels understanding the patients’ needs and desires relative to dentistry is critical. This doesn’t mean the typical routine cleanings that lead to a procedure or repair for something that is damaged. This is more about embracing what the patients want. Knowing what method and process to achieve the desired results is the practitioner’s job, as well as the patient education.

More often than not, when properly presented, patients will elect for much more than just the minimum of a single repair procedure. This is where we separate dentists who wish to have patients elect for care programs that may last from months to years from those who are just addressing what is broken as discovered.

Unless practitioners interact with and educate their patients – just like it is done by hygienists relative to brushing and flossing – how are these patients to know what is available other than by observance of others that have better smiles or better functioning teeth?

This isn’t rocket science. Practitioners need to embrace the dynamics that exist between patients and providers. This means office involvement from practitioner to staff members. If patients aren’t given the options and tools to make an informed decision, whose fault is that? Dr. Montgomery would argue the profession or the individual practitioner. ( http://www.MarkMontgomeryDMD.com )

There is effort to learn the process, but most dentists are already learning on a continual basis, but fall short on the integration and application of what they learn. Perhaps it is time to address and take the lead from others who have been successful in the integration portion of the learning process.

For more details visit http://www.MarkMontgomeryDMD.com

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Real Time Press Release Distribution

August 20, 2010 EPR Network Leave a comment

In today’s Internet the real time information is already playing a significant role in how businesses and people access and consume the information online. Technologies online have emerged up to the point where 2 minutes may sometimes be the difference between having tens of thousands of people not only seen your PR announcement, but creating a long tail of reactions across the vast real time online space adding up to your overall online presence/reputation and your message being buried down among millions of other identical pieces of information.

Considering how crucial the real time information for the average business and web user appears to be, one can only imagine how great the impact of the real time information flow over the public relations business online can be.

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In a nutshell RealTimePressRelease.com is a do-it-yourself publishing platform for real time press release distribution. It’s free and you can instantly have your press release published on RealTimePressRelease.com as well as released via the Web, the Blogosphere and the Twitter. Having spent almost 2 decades within the PR industry, and currently engaged with EPR Network, one of the largest press release distribution networks online, it’s been just a matter of time for us to realize how vital a real time press release distribution service online is.