Amtrak: Long Distance Trains: FY 2008 Long-Distance Train Facts • A long-distance train typically consists of sleepers‚ coaches‚ a diner and/or a lounge car. • Long-distance trains travel as far as 2‚800 miles and pass through as many as 12 states. • Amtrak operates 15 long-distance trains over 18‚500 route miles serving 39 states and the District of Columbia. These trains provide the only rail passenger service to 23 states. • In FY 2008 these trains carried 4.2 million passengers accounting
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4 Advantages of Distance Learning by Don Georgevich on 3:21 pm Distance learning is a way of continuing your education online‚ and more people are signing up for courses every day. There are many advantages of distance learning and also benefits of distance learning when compared to the traditional continued education options. This method of learning appeals to students as young as the middle school level‚ all the way to students who are working to get their Master’s degree. It is especially great
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Study skills for distance learner Introduction In this modern era of technology world‚ traditionally education study at the college and university is progressively complemented or even replaced by new technologies called distance learning. In the past decades‚ distance learning offerings have flourished across the nation. Institution such as Open University Malaysia (OUM) has made earning a degree more feasible for the many people across the country who has families and job in addition to
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POWER AND ITS POWERS: The Supremacy of Power Frank Chodorov‚ an American writer and libertarian once said “The State acquires power and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.” When I was in my high school‚ I always dreamed for Utopia‚ a perfect state wherein there is no poverty and starvation. Power is delegated in every people and there’s equality‚ justice and freedom. Utopia sometime refers for World peace‚ this may sounds
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The Nepal Rastra Bank should not interfere in determining salaries of commercial banks’ Chief Executive Officers. Market forces such as demand and supply for banks’ CEOs should be allowed to determine banks’ CEOs’ salary. The issue of capping executives’ compensation emerged after the global financial crisis beginning mid-2008.Monetary Policy for the FY 2010-11 provided for making necessary arrangement by NRB to standardize and maintain transparency in respect of salary and benefits of Directors
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Procedural Recount Aim To analyze the effect of paper thickness on the distance covered by a paper plane. Hypothesis The thinner the paper the further the paper plane would glide so it would cover a larger distance. This is because of the smaller gravity force acting on the paper plane made out of the thinner paper‚ since the mass of this plane is smaller. Apparatus Tape measurer Blue tack 6 sheets of different types of paper (office paper‚ paper towel‚ cardboard of different thickness
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Open distance learning is an idea of education system where separation between teachers and learners by space and/or time according to (Prospectus‚ 2011). The flexible aspect of open distance learning sense that there are no time and location constraints for learners. This means‚ learners can easily access for learning environment. The objective for open distance learning is to provide opportunities for those who could not commit as a full time student or study in traditional manner. Learners
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A Theoretical Framework for Distance Education-Desmond Keegan Keegan suggested that electronically linking students and instructor at various locations creates a virtual classroom. Keegan suggested three questions had to be answered before one could develop a theory. Those three questions are 1.) Is distance education an educational activity? 2.) Is distance education a form of conventional education? 3.) Is distance education possible‚ or is it a contradiction in terms? These 3 questions lend
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DISTANCE LEARNING: DEMOCRATIZATION OF EDUCATION Distance education or distance learning is a field of education that focuses on teaching methods and technology with the aim of delivering teaching‚ often on an individual basis‚ to students who are not physically present in a traditional educational setting such as a classroom. It has been described as "a process to create and provide access to learning when the source of information and the learners are separated by time and distance‚ or both.
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Student Motivation for Learning at a Distance: Does Interaction Matter? Kathleen D. Kelsey‚ Ph.D. Assistant Professor Oklahoma State University 466 Agricultural Hall Stillwater‚ OK 74078 kelseyk@okstate.edu Alan D ’souza‚ Ph.D. Director of Research and Development for TRiO Programs Wichita State University 105 Grace Wilkie Hall Wichita‚ KS 67260-0008 dsouzaalan@yahoo.com Acknowledgement: This research was paid for by the Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station through HATCH funds. Abstract The
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