Continuing Education
University Continuing Education
Association
International
association of accredited universities and colleges
providing undergraduate, graduate and professional
education via the Internet, ...
University Continuing Education
Association
International
association of accredited universities and colleges
providing undergraduate, graduate and professional
education via the Internet, ...
NIACE Homepage
NIACE
(The National Institute of Adult Continuing Education) is
the leading non-governmental organisation for adult
learning in England and Wales.
Continuing Education -
Welcome
The
Centre for Continuing Education offers short courses in
Information Technology, Business, History, Archaeology,
Literature, Languages, Study Tours, ...
The Foundation For Continuing
Education
The
Foundation is a non-profit educational resource for
providing continuing professional educational seminars, and
publishing books and manuals, ...
Emergency Medical Certification - EMS
Continuing Education ...
EMT/Paramedic solution for obtaining continuing education
credits over the Internet
in all 50 states. Free trial
course. Group subscriptions and management ...
Continuing education for real estate,
securities, insurance, and ...
Real estate, insurance, CPE, and CFP training courses you
take at home.
Materials available via CD-ROM, download, or
online course.
Continuing Engineering Education: Engineering
Professional ...
University of Wisconsin-Madison offers more than 400
continuing education ...
Continuing Education for
Engineers, Architects, Contractors, Consultants, ..
Continuing
education, in its most general
definition, is education
intended for
adult learners, especially for those beyond
traditional undergraduate
college
or
university
age.
Frequently, in the United
States,
it can involve enrollment in college/university
credit-granting courses, often by students enrolled
part-time, and often offered through a division or school
of continuing education of a college/university known
sometimes as the university extension or extension school.
Also frequently in the US, it can mean enrollment in
non-credit-granting courses, often taken for personal,
non-vocational enrichment (although many non-credit courses
can also have a vocational function). Also, in the US, many
such non-credit courses are offered by community
colleges. Community colleges and
some other non-baccalaureate
institutions
may also offer remedial programs, such as basic literacy,
literacy improvement, English language
skills, and
preparation for a high school
General
Equivalency Diploma (GED).
The University of
Wisconsin, in 1904, was the first academic
institution in the US to offer what today would be
considered an identifiable continuing education program.
In 1969, Empire State
College, a unit of the
State
University of New York, was the first
institution in the US to exclusively focus on
providing higher education
to adult
learners.
The method of delivery of continuing education can include
traditional types of classroom lectures and laboratories.
However, much continuing education makes heavy use of
distance learning, which not only includes independent
study, but which can include videotaped/CD-ROM
material,
broadcast
programming, and
online/Internet
delivery. In
addition to independent study, the use of conference-type
group study, which can include study networks (which can,
in many instances, meet together online) as well as
different types of seminars/workshops, can be used to
facilitate learning. A combination of traditional,
distance, and conference-type study, or two of these three
types, may be used for a particular continuing education
course or program.
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