Thirst for Knowledge: Learning Occurs At Any Age

With graduations during this time of year, it is a good reminder that learning can occur at any age. Excelsior Life caught up with William Kudon, an 87 year old Alum with a thirst for knowledge.

  

Benefit Alert: Convert Criminal Justice Training to College Credit

For those working in the criminal justice field, an inconsistent schedule and lack of time are two of the main barriers to pursuing a higher education. That's one of the reasons Excelsior College offers the Criminal Justice Training Assessment (CJTA) program, which helps law enforcement officials convert training to college credit.

 

Excelsior College Alumni Study Connects Emotional and Physical Well-Being

Robert Wright, Jr., Ph.D., is an alumnus, who completed a study on nitric oxide connecting emotional and physical well-being to stress and feeling good. The study has potential impact to the healthcare industry and could save money on wellness.

  

Rethinking the Role of MOOCs in Higher Ed with Dr. Christopher Davidson

Sociologist Dr. Christopher Davidson, an adjunct instructor at Excelsior College, joins the podcast to discuss Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), and what role, if any, they can or should play in higher education. Dr. Davidson argues that the reality of MOOCs is differs from how they are portrayed by the mainstream media and advocates.

 

 

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Excelsior’s Smulsky Selected as Top 50 Innovator in Education

By Mike Lesczinski, Excelsior Life News Staff—

Excelsior College today announced that faculty member Nancy Smulsky, PhD has been named one of the “Top 50 Innovators in Education.” Smulsky’s selection was announced as part of the “Technology Innovation in Education: 2012 Yearbook,” a research report from the Center for Digital Education and Converge.

The 2012 Yearbook “aims to support and inspire education leaders on their paths to a more digital education… (the report) highlights 50 education innovators that have led the way and provided best practice models to imitate.”

Smulsky was honored for her advocacy on behalf of student-faculty interaction via online learning environments, the co-development of an online Capstone retreat for graduate nursing students in response to rising enrollments and increased travel costs, and the findings in her dissertation research “Measuring Student-Faculty Interaction for Nontraditional College Students: A Comparison of data Collection Tools,” among a host of other initiatives.

Smulsky’s work was recently featured in the Excelsior Life piece earlier this December: Online Education: Why We Need to Reform Contemporary Methods of Assessing Faculty-Student Interaction.
 

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