And now, the antivax failure is complete: The Lancet withdraws Wakefield’s paper
Oh, this is wonderful to hear: The Lancet — a leading UK professional medical research journal — is retracting the paper published by Andrew Wakefield back in 1998 that linked vaccines with autism. The paper has been found to be multiply and fatally flawed, with Wakefield and his work being thoroughly discredit. As the Lancet editorial itself states : Following the judgment of the UK General Medical Council’s Fitness to Practise Panel on Jan 28, 2010, it has become clear that several elements of the 1998 paper by Wakefield et al.
On February 18 – 20, in my home town of Boulder, Colorado, the Lunar and Planetary Institute is holding a very interesting conference called The Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference 2010 (NSRC2010). It’s to promote the awareness of the coming revolution in access to space provided by private companies. This revolution is not only coming, it’s practically here.
Last week, the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) sky survey program, designed to sweep the heavens looking for near-Earth asteroids, spotted something really weird ; an elongated streak that looked as if two asteroids had collided. Just days later, Hubble was pointed at the object, and what it saw was really really weird : [Click to armageddonate.] This is a false-color image showing the object, called P/2010 A2, in visible light. The long tail of debris is obvious; this is probably dust being blown back by the solar wind, similar to the way a comet’s tail is blown back
One of the closest and most spectacular galaxies in the sky is M51, the Whirlpool. A grand design face-on spiral with a small, irregular companion, it’s so bright and big that it’s a favorite target for amateurs
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Study: Online Education Continues Its Meteoric Growth
This article is from US News and World Report . “Online college education is expanding—rapidly. More than 4.6 million college students were taking at least one online course at the start of the 2008-2009 school year.
If you work full time and long to expand your education, a distance learning college may present the solution for you. As those who work full time cannot typically afford to leave work for several months at a time in order to follow a …
Three More Colleges Join Major Distance Learning Transparency Initiative
Three More Colleges Join Major Distance Learning Transparency Initiative College Choices for Adults, a website dedicated to providing adult learners with unique information to accelerate and better inform their college selection process, announces publication of data for three additional providers. Ashford University, Nazarene Bible College, and University of the Rockies join the 13 Transparency by Design charter institutions, which already publish information about their program-level learning outcomes, outcome metrics and how students perform against these measures.
Online learning ‘just as good as the classroom’ – Tefl-chalkboard
Online learning programmes – such as TEFL online courses – are no less effective than being educated in a classroom. This is the view of Laurence Stybel, executive-in-residence at the department of management and entrepreneurship at the Sawyer Business School at Suffolk University.
This article is from The Boston Globe . “Stephen Balzac got his undergraduate degree the old-fashioned way at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but when his career focus shifted from software engineering to management and, eventually to psychology, he joined the tens of thousands of people who are earning advanced degrees online. “‘Personally, I hate sitting in lectures, so I really liked the opportunity to arrange my time as I saw fit,’ said Balzac, who earned a master’s degree in organizational psychology from Capella University and now serves as president of 7 Steps Ahead LLC, a consulting company in Stow
Hancock expands long-distance learning (The Santa Ynez Valley News)
Hancock College anthropology instructor Brian Stokes teaches students from Santa Maria to Iraq, all without leaving his office. “Distance learning” is the latest catch phrase for online education, and its enrollment numbers are rising faster than a high-speed download.
ICT supported learning: dialogic forums in project work – Hayat Al-Khatib, EURODL
Education in the twenty-first century is underpinned by theories of inclusion and practices of open and distance learning (Aldrich, 2003; Richards, 2004). New concerns are replacing the traditional views on the impossibility of integrating pedagogy and technology (Barab et al, 2004; Roblyer et al, 2000). Supporting learning in the digital age looks at devising innovative methods to utilize ICT in education for maximalist inclusion of learners accompanied by a reformed pedagogy that frames quality in the learning activity by raising the interest and involvement of the student in dialogic learner centred approaches
Leo Igwe is a skeptic in Africa who has tirelessly and heroically fought the forces of unreason. He is director of the Centre for Inquiry in Nigeria and executive director of the Nigerian Humanist Movement, and has battled against female genital mutilation, the oppression of women in Africa, witch hunters, and all manners of religious-based (generally Sharia law) woe in that continent. But he’s in trouble
The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe is one of my favorite podcasts. It’s funny, informative, goofy, but most importantly goes right to the heart of a lot of issues important to the critical thinker. I’ve done a lot of interviews with them, and sometimes they call me at the last minute when there’s some breaking astronomy news
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Michigan Health Clinic Receives Rural Development Grant for Remote Pharmacists
Baldwin Family Health Care, which operates a number of family medical clinics in Michigan, is another recipient of the 2009 Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grants from the US Department of Agriculture: The DLT project connects the applicant with remote pharmacists through tele-pharmacy.
South Dakota Hospital gets Huge Telepharmacy Equipment Grant
From the Rapid City Journal out of Rapid City, SD, comes this news: Regional Health of Rapid City will receive a $386,549 federal grant to buy videoconferencing devices to link 15 sites, including rural hospitals as well as clinics, with regional medical resources at three sites in Rapid City. The grant was one of three Distance Learning and Telemedicine grants awarded in South Dakota last week by U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development.
Missouri Hospital District receives USDA telepharmacy grant
The Scotland County Memorial Hospital District, serving Scotland and Schuyler Counties (Memphis area) in northeast Missouri received a $62,622 grant from the US Department of Agriculture, as 1 of 4 Missouri grant recipients from this year’s USDA Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program: This project will connect a hospital, two clinic and a phamacy. The primary purpose is telepharmacy. There will also be upgrades to the existing video-conferencing system which supports remote consultation
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