eCornell, in partnership with the Cornell Entrepreneur Network, sponsored a breakfast seminar on March 20 with Cornell University ILR Professor Samuel Bacharach, Ph.D. The event was held at the Cornell Club in New York City with over 80 attendees , …
Ithaca, NY, March 10, 2009 – Thousands of employees at some of the world’s foremost hospitality-related companies will gain preferred access to the online courses offered by eCornell, through a groundbreaking arrangement with Cornell’s Center for Hospitality Research, eCornell, and …
A new in-depth study of the educational and employment outcomes of low-income students suggests that low-income students who struggle in high school get more of an earnings boost by earning a certificate than they do achieving an associate degree at …
By now the incident involving the crash landing of USAirways flight 1549 is well documented. There is no doubt that Captain Chesley Sullenberger is a genuine American hero for his skills and even-tempered approach in landing his aircraft on the …
According to a recent article in the New York Times, the physics department at M.I.T. has replaced the traditional large introductory lecture with smaller classes that emphasize hands-on, interactive, collaborative learning. Last fall, after years of experimentation and debate and …
Every year at this time, eLearn Magazine asks experts in the field of e-learning to share their predictions about what lies ahead for the e-learning community. Following is a summary of their predictions for 2009.
Cellphones will emerge as the dominant …
Eric Berg, the chairman of LINGOS visited our office last week and provided our staff with a compelling presentation of how the eCornell courses are having an impact in many international NGOs. Through our partnership with LINGOs, employees of NGOs …
Cornell has one of the strongest university-wide programs on entrepreneurship in the country. The program “fosters the entrepreneurial spirit in every Cornell participant – in every college, every field, and every stage of life.”
The Cornell Chronicle recently published a great …
The 2008 National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) was just completed for 2008. They surveyed 22,000 students at 47 institutions of higher education. This year the survey was expanded to also survey students who had completed online courses, and they …
They float around on desktops, populate home pages and bulge out of Facebook profiles. They aren’t exactly tangible, which is why they’re called widgets, but they’re real enough within the digital ether than some educators want to turn them into …
New research suggests that students who create and edit documents using Web-based collaboration tools include more complex visual media in their assignments — and come away with a better understanding in the process. Another ongoing experiment finds, with statistical significance, …
Clark Quinn, executive director at Quinnovation, pokes holes in the conventional wisdom about pre-tests. It’s a given that completing an online course will result in a change in knowledge, but, according to Quinn, that’s not the point. The point is …
We get asked quite often to describe how an online course works….
Each course has a set start date and end date but when you complete the course work in between those two dates is entirely up to the you. There …
As an enrollment counselor for eCornell, I am asked daily by HR professionals looking to augment their on the job skills, " Will this Certificate help my Career? " I think the best way to answer this question is to …
Four eCornell clients were honored with 2008 ASTD BEST awards in October for excellence in workplace learning and performance. ASTD selected forty companies that are among the “BEST at Building talent Enterprise-wide, Supported by the organization’s leaders fostering a Thorough …
eCornell has announced the launch of a new online certificate program in Project Leadership.
The six-course certificate series in Project Leadership prepares learners to lead project and cross-functional teams to success. Project Leadership focuses on the essential leadership skills that lead …
Computer-administered testing, made available on students’ own laptops, first became a reality for both students with disabilities and for professional graduate programs with intensive testing regimens, such as law school and medical school. In summer 2007, the New York State …
Knetwit is a Web site that combines some familiar Web 2.0 features — user profiles, file sharing, online communities — with the goals of campus note-taking services. Its creators, who dropped out of Babson College to launch the service, have …
It looks like students can be open-minded after all: When provided with the option to view lectures online, rather than just in person, a full 82 percent of undergraduates kindly offered that they’d be willing to entertain an alternative to …
The MASIE Center’s Learning CONSORTIUM has completed a six-month study of 6,100 employees in companies around the world, focusing on how learners perceive their own learning methods. Following is an executive summary.
Learning Methods:
Learning Independently: The majority of employees today …
