Environmental Studies Online: Difference between revisions

The first university where all bachelor’s and master’s degrees are competency-based, with online courses designed in partnership with leading employers. We’re nonprofit, driven entirely by a mission to serve students—in fact, it’s right there in our name. We’re called Western Governors University because we were created by a group of U.S. governors, an innovative solution to their states’ demand for high-quality, outcomes-oriented higher education.

SJS / GreenPolicy360 siterunner: I was asked by the Governor of New Mexico in 1996 to represent our state in the creation of the "Virtual University". In the 1990s, as a member of New Mexico's State Board of Education, I could see future opportunities more clearly in my roles on the state's technology council and with educational technology. At the time I was responsible for oversight of bringing the Internet into some 900 schools and I welcomed the role to create a new educational vision -- an online, accredited university. In my travels in 1969/70 I had become impressed by the new UK "Open University" and realized in the 1990s that online networks could provide new media access to top-level professors and educators and be made available to every student geographically. The idea of bringing 'remote learning/distance learning' to all students in our state and states around the country and world was immensely appealing. My goal, also, was to make higher education affordable and in New Mexico I worked to propose a full-tuition college scholarship, which was funded with a state lottery scholarship program. The combination of access and funding came to be. Each of the original Virtual University founding states appointed a member to serve on the work group and we set in motion what was formally announced in 1997 -- the new Western Governor's University.

The WGU and NM lottery scholarship are well into their second decade of success now in 2019. Education is the key to opening doors for every student and lifelong learning is an opportunity all of us deserve. It is a torch we are all passing forward, eye opening education and all that education brings with it.

Salud to the WGU and OU !

https://www.wgu.edu/about/our-story.html

http://www.open.ac.uk/

(Via Wikipedia)

The Western Governors University is a private, nonprofit, online university based in Salt Lake City, Utah. The university was founded by 19 U.S. governors in 1997 after the idea was formulated at a 1995 meeting of the Western Governors Association.

In January 1997, 13 governors were on hand to sign the articles of incorporation formally beginning the new university.

In 2001, the United States Department of Education awarded $10 million to found the Teachers College, and the first programs were offered in Information Technology.

US Department of Education ... "the innovative student-first model used by this school and others like it has garnered bipartisan support over the last decade." In January 2019, the U.S. Department of Education's Federal Student Aid (FSA) office issued their final audit determining that WGU was indeed eligible to participate in federal student aid... The news editor for Inside Higher Ed, said the "much anticipated high-stakes audit" had begun more than four years earlier and the findings were "not a surprise to most observers", due to their reliance on a 1992 law that defines aid eligibility for distance education programs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Governors_University

(Social Media)

https://twitter.com/wgu

https://www.linkedin.com/school/western-governors-university/

https://www.facebook.com/wgu.edu/

https://www.wgu.edu/newsroom.html

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In the tradition of the UK's Open University

SJS / Surrounded by ideas and knowledge, a virtual feast of plenty. A Tip of the GreenPolicy360 hat to the OU on the 50th anniversary of the Open University / March 2019

https://50.open.ac.uk/

https://youtu.be/TrKIImWQejI

https://twitter.com/BBC/status/1106888124796469248

Where you start in life shouldn't limit where you go

We are a movement... We are disruptors, occasional troublemakers, game changers

We are the fuel of imagination

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References / Online Education

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Educational_websites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Online_education

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• http://www.wgu.edu/about_WGU/WGU_story

• http://www.wgu.edu/online_it_degrees/information_technology_degree

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Wikiversity

• https://www.wikiversity.org/

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"Science is good, scientific thinking is essential these days." -- SJS

Dot Earth - knowosphere

An Exercise to Sift for Sources Amid a Blitz of Fake News

Tracking the Facts - Backtrack Journals

By Andrew C. Revkin / November 24, 2016

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References / Reading

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Educational_websites

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Online_education

• http://www.powersofplace.com/new/pdfs/POLITICS-POLICIES.pdf

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Higher Education in the Digital Age by William G. Bowen / Hardcover/Paperback/Kindle – April 2013

• http://www.amazon.com/Higher-Education-Digital-William-Bowen/dp/0691159300

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Sustainable Management - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_management

Arizona State https://schoolofsustainability.asu.edu/

ASU Online https://asuonline.asu.edu/online-degree-programs/undergraduate/bachelor-arts-sustainability

Columbia http://ce.columbia.edu/sustainability-management

Harvard https://www.extension.harvard.edu/academics/professional-graduate-certificates/sustainability-certificate

St Petersburg College, Florida http://www.spcollege.edu/sustainabilityBAS/

University of Colorado https://sustainable.colorado.edu/

University of Wisconsin http://sustain.wisconsin.edu/degrees-and-certificates/masters/

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Conservation Medicine -- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_medicine

Conservation medicine is an emerging, interdisciplinary field that studies the relationship between human and animal health, and environmental conditions. Also known as ecological medicine, environmental medicine, or medical geology

Conservation medicine teams may involve physicians and veterinarians working alongside researchers and clinicians from diverse disciplines, including microbiologists, pathologists, landscape analysts, marine biologists, toxicologists, epidemiologists, climate biologists, anthropologists, economists, and political scientists.

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Renewable energy commercialization -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_commercialization

Renewable energy continued its rapid growth ... new records are being set for installed wind and photovoltaic capacity and global renewables investment. A key benefit that this investment growth brings is a growth in jobs ....

"Green Gold" -- https://www.nature.com/articles/nenergy201611

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Idealist / Environmental Job Opportunities

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 <big>'''Western Governors University'''</big>
-Siterunner: In the mid 1990's I was asked to join the working group that was charged with the task of establishing a 'virtual university' throughout the western United States. The governors of these states joined together, as the new internet spread and 'distance learning' became a possibility. Especially in rural counties with great distance between towns, and newly wired schools, the concept of learning programs delivered via computer became highly attractive.
+[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_Studies_Online '''Environmental Studies Online ---- Higher Education / Continuing Education / Distance Learning''']
-Our working group responded expeditiously and established the "Western Governors University". As the representative of the state of New Mexico, I look back with a sense of accomplishment (and cartons of start-up memories and material!)
-Our online U has become, over the years, very successful and one of the largest of distance learning institutions. The WGU is now in every state and providing education skill sets for the 21st century.
--- SJS / GreenPolicy360 Siterunner
+[[File:WGU-we are wise.jpg]]
-• http://www.wgu.edu/
+<big>'''Western Governor's University'''</big>
+'''Education without boundaries.™'''
+: https://www.wgu.edu/
+'''Four online colleges. 60+ flexible degree programs.'''
+The first university where all bachelor’s and master’s degrees are competency-based, with online courses designed in partnership with leading employers. We’re nonprofit, driven entirely by a mission to serve students—in fact, it’s right there in our name. We’re called Western Governors University because we were created by a group of U.S. governors, an innovative solution to their states’ demand for high-quality, outcomes-oriented higher education.
+SJS / GreenPolicy360 siterunner: I was asked by the Governor of New Mexico in 1996 to represent our state in the creation of the "Virtual University". In the 1990s, as a member of New Mexico's State Board of Education, I could see future opportunities more clearly in my roles on the state's technology council and with educational technology. At the time I was responsible for oversight of bringing the Internet into some 900 schools and I welcomed the role to create a new educational vision -- an online, accredited university. In my travels in 1969/70 I had become impressed by the new UK "Open University" and realized in the 1990s that online networks could provide new media access to top-level professors and educators and be made available to every student geographically. The idea of bringing 'remote learning/distance learning' to all students in our state and states around the country and world was immensely appealing. My goal, also, was to make higher education affordable and in New Mexico I worked to propose a full-tuition college scholarship, which was funded with a state lottery scholarship program. The combination of access and funding came to be. Each of the original Virtual University founding states appointed a member to serve on the work group and we set in motion what was formally announced in 1997 -- the new '''Western Governor's University.'''
+The WGU and NM lottery scholarship are well into their second decade of success now in 2019. Education is the key to opening doors for every student and lifelong learning is an opportunity all of us deserve. It is a torch we are all passing forward, eye opening education and all that education brings with it.
+Salud to the WGU and OU !
+: https://www.wgu.edu/about/our-story.html
+: http://www.open.ac.uk/
+(Via Wikipedia)
+''The Western Governors University is a private, nonprofit, online university based in Salt Lake City, Utah. The university was founded by 19 U.S. governors in 1997 after the idea was formulated at a 1995 meeting of the Western Governors Association.''
+''In January 1997, 13 governors were on hand to sign the articles of incorporation formally beginning the new university.''
+''In 2001, the United States Department of Education awarded $10 million to found the Teachers College, and the first programs were offered in Information Technology.''
+''US Department of Education ... "the innovative student-first model used by this school and others like it has garnered bipartisan support over the last decade." In January 2019, the U.S. Department of Education's Federal Student Aid (FSA) office issued their final audit determining that WGU was indeed eligible to participate in federal student aid... The news editor for Inside Higher Ed, said the "much anticipated high-stakes audit" had begun more than four years earlier and the findings were "not a surprise to most observers", due to their reliance on a 1992 law that defines aid eligibility for distance education programs.''
+: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Governors_University
+(Social Media)
+: https://twitter.com/wgu
+: https://www.linkedin.com/school/western-governors-university/
+: https://www.facebook.com/wgu.edu/
+: https://www.wgu.edu/newsroom.html
+○
+<big>'''In the tradition of the UK's Open University'''</big>
+SJS / Surrounded by ideas and knowledge, a virtual feast of plenty. A Tip of the GreenPolicy360 hat to the OU on the 50th anniversary of the Open University / March 2019
+: https://50.open.ac.uk/
+: https://youtu.be/TrKIImWQejI
+: https://twitter.com/BBC/status/1106888124796469248
+''Where you start in life shouldn't limit where you go''
+''We are a movement... We are disruptors, occasional troublemakers, game changers''
+''We are the fuel of imagination''
+○
+'''References / Online Education'''
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Educational_websites
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Online_education
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 [[Category:Sustainability Policies]]
+[[Category:Digital Citizen]]
+[[Category:Digital Rights]]
+[[Category:Ecology Studies]]
+[[Category:Education]]
+[[Category:Environmental Security]]
+[[Category:Netizen]]
+[[Category:Networking]]
+[[Category:Planet Citizens]]
+[[Category:Planetary Science]]
+[[Category:Sustainability Policies]]
+[[Category:World Wide Web]]

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