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Well, in the wake of the termination of Instructor subsidies, the educational support is just rolling in, isn't it? Thomson NETg describes themselves as an education company that provides online live classes with two instructors and self-paced courses with 24x7 online mentoring across an extensive array of topics to hundreds of thousands of learners and thousands of companies.For the last seven months, Thomson NETg have been running streaming audio/video classes in Second Life on their own island. Thomson NETg has partnered with the Academy of Second Learning (ASL). Thomson NETg is providing funding to ASL to manage the overall program so they can recruit, train, and deploy "a significant number of instructors in Second Life. Once everything is fully up and running, we are looking to provide in excess of 1,000 free classes per month."
Thomson NETg is looking to ASL to ensure that instructors that participate in this program are certified and maintain a high standard of quality.
We wondered if NCI was going to take advantage of this model to help with class funding and support and to supplement the sponsorship scheme that they recently began. Carl Metropolitan replied, "No--so far, NCI has had good luck in finding our own funding sources. But we can't teach classes for everyone. Multiple funding sources are good for SL education."
He was, however, very positive about the program, "It's a good a thing for education in SL--another choice for Instructors in the post-LL funding world. I think ASL is an excellent choice to administer the program for NETg."
Selaras Partridge, head and manager of ASL, was not immediately available for comment, but we expect to speak with her in the near future about this, and other educational matters in Second Life.
If you're interested in signing with ASL and Thomson NETg as an instructor, you should grab an application form from ASL in sim Eson.Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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