Archive for 'economy'

Educating Factory and Technical Workers

Posted on 16. Feb, 2012 by .

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There was an article today over at CNN titled “Desperately seeking Americans for factory jobs” that stated: There is a “critical shortage of machinists,” a common and crucial position in factories, said Rob Akers, vice president at the National Tooling and Machining Association. “Enrollment in this field in technical schools has been down for a [...]

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Helping People Find Jobs: Part of Our Responsibility as a Bloomsburg Professor

Posted on 07. Sep, 2010 by .

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In Pennsylvania, the job situation is rather bleak. More than 591,000 Pennsylvanians are jobless and the jobless rate has risen from 9.2 in June to 9.3 in July (doesn’t seem like much unless you are one of the .1 who lost your job.) More Pennsylvanians are out of work than any other time in the [...]

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Deja Vue All Over Again. More Lawsuits

Posted on 12. Mar, 2009 by .

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Remember a few years ago when Blackboard claimed to have invented e-learning. (Who invented e-learning? A patent dispute shakes up academic computing) and when Al Gore claimed to have invented the Internet (although this seems to be up for some debate.) In that spirt of “hey I invented…” another crazy is claiming to have invented [...]

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E-Learning Seen as Bright Spot in Training Industry

Posted on 17. Feb, 2009 by .

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As recently announced by Bersin & Associates, in the United States, corporate learning and development (L&D) expenditures dropped by more than 11 % in 2008. It seems likely that the cuts are will continue in 2009. The organization continues to report that the spending has fallen from $1,202 per learner in 2007 to $1,075 per [...]

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For Sale—Test Space

Posted on 02. Dec, 2008 by .

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Well commercialization has finally impacted something as neutral and seemingly advertisement free as a student’s math test. A calculus teacher in San Diego, California sells ads on his test papers: $10 for a quiz, $20 for a chapter test and $30 for a semester final. Check out the USA Today article Ads on tests add [...]

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Free e-Learning Stuff

Posted on 30. Sep, 2008 by .

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With all this talk about economic disaster, I thought I’d offer some “free e-learning stuff” to help make your day/week/month a little brighter. If we all posted a few free things then each of us could benefit each other and expand our own knowledge as well as others…a silver lining in this gray economic cloud. [...]

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Who is in Charge?

Posted on 24. Sep, 2008 by .

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Sorry to do this again but it is really on my mind. Ok, so one of the guys who wants $700 billion dollars as soon as possible to bail out the rich investment banks who greedily took on too much debt was, not too long ago, one of those people we are bailing out. Man [...]

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