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The market for post-secondary education could be every bit as open, diverse, and consumer-friendly.
Under the leadership of its Rector, Alexei Semenov, the Moscow Institute of Open Education has provided in-service training to about 30, 000 teachers annually for the past 16 years.
There are five types of written open-ended exams aimed to certify different education levels.
The two founders of OpenRov - an open source underwater robots for education and and exploration, even have different views.
The international conferences will focus on the on-going discussions about open access to education and culture, using and applying creative commons licenses, meaning and development of free software, and challenges for intellectual property rights.
There are countless repositories of fantastic educational content, from user-generated and curated sites to Open Education Resources to private sector publisher sites.
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A.s and diminished corporate interest in open-enrollment programs for executives, can ill afford to lose money from custom executive-education programs, which can bring in tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
The UNESCO Venice Office will use this open resource education platform to enhance the capacity of UNESCO schools in Science Education in selected South-East European countries.
We should be looking to expand the education experiment using new technology, better education programs, and collaboration utilizing open-source resources.
Maybe Prime Minister Gordon Brown should consider helping open-minded and educated Pakistanis in their desire to get education and acquire knowledge.
We'll open up opportunity -- evenly and equitably -- across our education system.
"Everything can and should be done" to keep schools open during the wintry weather, Education Secretary Michael Gove said - as snow closed more than 5, 000 schools across the UK on Monday.
Bolder ideas are needed to open up Britain's restrictive schools system, in which local-education authorities seldom sanction the creation of new schools while there are surplus places at existing ones, however awful.
First, we'll open new doors to higher education and job training programs to recently laid-off workers who are receiving unemployment benefits.
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Mr Wahid, who got much of his education abroad, has long been a champion of an open-minded version of the Muslim faith.
Most of that criticism has evaporated, experts say, but some add that the open-adoption system needs refining, with better training for social workers and education for expectant parents.
Inaugurated by Anshu Vaish, Secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy, the conference explored ways to increase access to sustainable and learner-centred quality education and equip secondary school students with vocational skills through open distance learning.
Key technology leaders are striving to increase access to education through low-cost or free peer-to-peer and open-source models.
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In his executive-education class on leadership development, he instructs students who include CEOs to open up to others about their toughest experiences.
This shift is enabling education technology companies to fulfil the call in education for on-demand, highly targeted and relevant online learning and open resources.
The University of Tennessee, meanwhile, will have faculty at its Martin and Chattanooga campuses work with Coursera to develop entirely online versions of first-year courses in English composition and masterpieces of music, both general education requirements (these courses won't be "open" to non-UT students, so aren't really "MOOCs, " but they will borrow from Coursera's technology platforms).
Dr Sasithara Pichaichannarong , Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, and Vice-Chairperson of the Thai National Commission to UNESCO will open the Future Lecture.
"We extend an open invitation to all post-secondary institutions that care about sharing knowledge as a core value of education to join us in planning these sustainable learning futures, " said Dr Robin Day, Chair of the Board of Directors of the OER Foundation.
By staying open-minded and flexible in his thinking, he was able to move to a market niche (education) that his organization was particularly well suited for.
Chile shows that it is possible to defeat the Latin American curse by adopting an open market and political reform accompanied by the political courage to implement second-tier reforms in pensions, education and health.
Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, for example, tops the latest full-time MBA rankings of BusinessWeek and the EIU, and heads the FT's executive education open programs.
But the idea of students cobbling together an entire degree from free Web courses, a prospect touted by some online-education evangelists, remains "kind of a silly nightmare, " said Edward Rock, director of open course initiatives at University of Pennsylvania.
Many members of the Roma community are poorly educated - UN figures quoted by the Open Society Institute indicate that in 2005, 94% of the general Romanian population was in primary education (7 - 15), compared to 76% Roma, 69% in secondary education (16 -19) 17% Roma and 5% in tertiary education (1% Roma).
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