DISTANCE EDUCATION: ALTERNATIVE LEARNING SYSTEM BEYOND BORDER History Distance education dates back to at least as early as 1728 when an advertisement in the Boston Gazette promoted "Caleb Phillips‚ Teacher of the new method of Short Hand‚" who sought students who wanted to learn through weekly mailed lessons. Similarly‚ Isaac Pitman taught shorthand in Great Britain via correspondence in the 1840s. Distance education has a long history‚ but its popularity and use has grown exponentially as
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Power distance is one of the five dimensions of Hofstede’s framework for assessing culture. Hofstede has defined power distance as “the extent to which inequality in power is accepted and considered as normal by less powerful people in a society.”(Hofstede‚ p. 307‚ 1986). He divided this dimension into two categories: 1. Small 2. Large Small power distance: Small power distance means that the extent to which less powerful people accept the social inequality is small‚ that is members
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Stopping Distance and Reaction Time 20 m s -1 A B O positive direction 40 m The driver in the car B sees the man A 40 m away at time t = 0. The velocity of the car changes according to the graph below. V / m s-1 40 30 20 10 0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 5.0 5.5 t/s V / m s-1 40 30 20 10 0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 Will the car B collide with the man A ? 3.5 4.0 4.5 5.0 5.5 t/s
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Many people use distance-learning programs (study material post‚ TV‚ Internet‚ etc.) to study at home‚ but some people think that it cannot bring the same benefits of attending college or university. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion? 第一次 Nowadays‚ an increasing number of people are concerned about the vehicle of accessing to knowledge and skills. However‚ whether people should be given access to knowledge by distance-learning programs or by attending college has caused
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Relative Size in the Industry IBM is part of the technology sectors in the diversified computer systems industry (IBM: Summary for International Business Machines- Yahoo! Finance). The market cap is 254 billion with IBM making up 218.6 billion. IBM is the largest company relative to the diversified computer systems industry. In a less specific industry of computers IBM only trails Microsoft Corporation by 12 billion dollars ("International Business Machines Corp."). Because of IBM’s large size
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SPSS Statistics is a software package used for statistical analysis. It is now officially named "IBM SPSS Statistics". Companion products in the same family are used for survey authoring and deployment (IBM SPSS Data Collection)‚ data mining (IBM SPSS Modeler)‚ text analytics‚ and collaboration and deployment (batch and automated scoring services). Contents [hide] 1 Statistics program 2 Versions 2.1 Ownership history 3 Add-ons 4 Release history 5 See also 6 Notes 7 References 8 External
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receive an education. The way that each child receives an education is up to the school. There are over 37‚000 public and private high schools across the United States. Some high schools offer the opportunity to take online classes‚ but the majority of distance learning occurs in the college/university setting. As many people are aware of‚ college students come from a very wide background; old‚ young‚ mothers‚ fathers‚ young adults‚ etc. Some people who go to college come straight out of high school‚ while
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Statements 17 1. Scope of the Analysis 17 2. Examining Credit Worthiness of IBM 17 2.1.1. Short Term Paying Ability 17 2.1.2. Long Term Solvency 22 3. Examining IBM Stock as a Investment Opportunity 23 Part 3: Conclusion 25 References 27 Appendix 1: Calculations for Financial Analysis 28 Part 1: Qualitative Analysis 1. Company Profile International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)‚ founded in 1911‚ is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation
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The background of Lenovo Lenovo is a Chinese company which is the fourth largest PC vendor in the world. The production innovation‚ highly-efficient global supply chain are advantages of Lenovo’s business. Furthermore‚ the international joined ventures strategy bring more benefits to grow Leonovo’s commercial and develop PC marketing. The international joint venture with NEC Corporation NEC Corporation is one of the partners of Lenovo and they created an international joint venture between two
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Government College University Faisalabad Striving for Excellence tion 6th Posi in nking HEC Ra Distance Learning Education Admission Notice Programs Offered in Spring Semester 2013 B.Com (2 Years) Eligibility 1- Intermediate or equivalent with minimum 45% marks from any Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education of Punjab and Pakistan will be considered for admission. 2- In case of ‘A level’‚ the equivalence certificate from IBCC‚ Islamabad shall be required. M.Sc Economics (2 Years)
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