EdSurfDigest

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Welcome to a Fun Learning edition of EdSurfDigest.

In this issue:

~ What's EdNew ~ notes
~ EdNews Surf ~ articles related to Online Education
~ EdSurf Shack U ~ Free Time Learning
~ Free to Learn ~ Fun Learning Special and Free IT
~ EdSeal of Approval ~ Leap to IT
~ Quick Surfey ~ results and a new Surfey
~ EdSurf Update ~ what's happening with EdSurf
~ EdQuote ~ this issues education quotation

A special thank you to University Alliance for sponsoring this
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What's EdNew
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EdSurfDigest is back and this issue is dedicated to the memory of my dearly
beloved grandmother and long-time companion pet cat. I've put together a
special Free~to~Learn Fun Learning edition to celebrate the joy, creativity,
humour and learning they provided to my life.. also check-out the free IT
Certification Training section.

EdSurf is pleased to now make available through our Free Net Learning site
200+ FREE full online training courses - over 35,000 pages of professionally
developed, high quality content pages.

EdQuote's database has been updated with over 50 new thought provoking
remarks.. enjoy!

Live and Learn!

EDNEWS CENTER SURF
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http://www.edsurf.net/ednews/

Professors seek online standards Courses need 'academic rigor'
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/cti205.htm

Phoney Degrees a Hot Net Scam
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,35068,00.html

Online piano lessons bring instruction to cyberspace
http://www.cnn.com/2000/SHOWBIZ/Music/07/10/online.piano.reut/index.html

Publishers Rush to Offer Distance-Education Information -- in Print
http://chronicle.com/free/2000/06/2000062301u.htm

Stock's Free Fall Slows Software Magnate's Plan for Online University
http://chronicle.com/free/2000/06/2000062201u.htm

Companies Use Online 'Universities' to Lure Customers
http://chronicle.com/free/v46/i42/42a04701.htm

South African Universities Grapple With the Growth of Distance Learning
http://chronicle.com/free/v46/i42/42a04501.htm

Authors Argue That 'Distance Education' Is an Oxymoron
http://chronicle.com/free/v46/i42/42a04901.htm

Distance-Education Providers Promote Summertime Discounts
http://chronicle.com/free/v46/i42/42a04502.htm

Accreditors Delay Vote on Western Governors U.
http://chronicle.com/free/v46/i42/42a04903.htm

E-Learning Has Arrived on the Plant Floor
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/imt/2000/06/26/elearning.html

Get your daily EdNews Headlines at:
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COMMUNITY CONNECTION
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Do you have an upcoming Online Learning event or Distance Education
announcement?
Add your free Notice to the EdSurf Community Connection board.

Learn more and submit your Online Learning Notice at:
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EdSurf SHACK U
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demo's!

Selection of New Tutorials available include:

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Defensive Driving
Partner Selling
Investing on the Internet

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FREE TO LEARN
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Free~to~Learn has put together a Fun Learning Special to celebrate the
enjoyable pursuits in life. Check out links to online learning in arts and
crafts, pet care, gardening, having fun at the beach and more.

Also a section of FREE online IT certification training resources for online
classes, practise exams and advice.

Fun Learning Special
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And don't forget EdSurf's new Free Net Learning section of 200+ free full
online training courses available at:
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EdSeal OF APPROVAL
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LeapIT.com
http://www.leapit.com/

LeapIt.com is an all-encompassing web community for the IT industry. Serving
as a professional development one-stop shop for IT professionals, it
provides everything an IT professional needs for career advancement from
assessment of one's goals to training to certification and job placement.
LeapIt.com's blend of on-line courses, career mentoring, expert
certification support and industry information matches the unique needs of
IT professionals.

Membership, besides allowing access to IT training courses, provides access
to Ed Tittel's excellent e-book Certification Essentials, The Career
Advisor, which generates personalized Certification Roadmaps that point you
in the right direction, a resume builder and Job bank.

The online courses are streamed multi-media presentations with 'live'
instructors and slide shows presented in approximately 10 minute segments
which provides flexibility to resume studying at ones convinence. A nice
feature is the ability to chat live with fellow students while taking the
course or just for a break between learning. The community features of the
site include regularly scheduled chats with certified instructors available
to answer your questions and message boards to ask questions of fellow
students, instructors and the staff of LeapIT.

The LeapIT web site still has some rough edges, such as the poorly
structured message boards, but this is to be expected from a still
developing community and the friendly, helpful and responsive staff more
then make up for these current short comings.

LeapIT.com receives the EdSeal of Approval.

QUICK SURFEY
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http://www.edsurf.net/surfey/

This months Quick Surfey

Question: Is a "Virtual" diploma worth as much as a "Real" diploma ?
http://www.edsurf.net/surfey/edshack.html

Results for Surfey: Do you find Online Learning harder or easier?

Equal: 36%
Easier: 36%
Harder: 28%

Selection of comments

Online learning is sooo much less stressful because it is self-paced, you
can get your lessons and complete your assignments when you have time and if
you don't have time, you don't have to get stressed out about not having
your work done yet because you know it will be there-when you're ready-with
no late penalties
~G

It's easier because it is when it's convenient for me
~Anon

Since online learning is pretty much
self motivated, I find it much harder.
I like the freedom of doing it when you
want to though
~CA B

It's very focused on what a student needs to know. I found that online
education is better than the classroom because you don't have to be
distracted by the numerous questions, the stopping and starting of lecture,
driving to class, and other attendance issues. Not that I wouldn't want to
sit in class, it's just that I don't have time for the "filler" and it's
easier to just do what you are supposed to do without all of the icing
~CR

You have to be more disciplined than in a traditional class setting
~PW

I'm new at it and so am learning both the model and the information!
It is something I think is worth persevering at though, perhaps it will be
easier in the end. Though I have to admit that I miss personal interaction
~Anon

Thanks to all who participated! Your comments are also
appreciated.

EdSurf UPDATE
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~ Free Net Learning addition
~ BookShack updated
~ EdQuote now has close to 100 thought provokers
~ New domain names have been acquired to integrate and expand the EdSurf
Network of online learning sites

Stay tuned for more updates and new features in the works.

EDQUOTE
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http://www.edsurf.net/edquote/

"Experience is that marvellous thing that enables you recognize a mistake
when you make it again."
~F. P. Jones

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