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High Self-Directed Learning: A National Imperative:

Terrence R. Redding, Ph.D. presented the above paper at the 13th International Self-Directed Learning Symposium. To review a draft of his presentation click here.

Pre-college courses now available through OnLine Training. Dec. 1998

OnLine Training in conjunction with H&H Publishing offer college preparation courses online -- Florida Community College students have new choices for overcoming academic weaknesses. The options are described in House Bill 4259, passed May 1, 1998, with unanimous approval from both chambers of the Florida Legislature.

Previously, new students to the community college system were required to take remedial courses when their placement test scores indicated areas of academic weakness. Now those students will be given a list of options to consider in overcoming those weaknesses. The new legislation directs Florida community colleges to notify students of other possibilities besides their own campus programs, including those offered by private-sector for profit companies. Students who choose options outside the community college are still assured the right to enroll in other college-level courses under the same conditions as those who sign up for remedial classes.

By giving students an informed right to choose other methods of remediation, the State Legislature places the community colleges in competition with other instructional providers. Students can weigh the costs, effectiveness of instruction, time/effort required, and all other factors when making a choice that will have major, long-range effects on their academic ambitions.

For more information about college preparation courses please click here.

News Release from the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Global Education.

November 3, 1998

For Immediate Release:

Organizers to Global Learn Day II, to begin Saturday, 7 November at 4:00

P.M. Pacific Standard Time (GMT 00:01 Sunday 8 November) (Visit

http://www.bfranklin.edu) announced today that OnLine Training, Inc., has

become a Platinum Sponsor to this worldwide event.

According to John Hibbs, "Captain" of the GLDII Clipper, "OnLine Training

has provided cash, human resources and technical support that exceeds

$100,000, making OLT the first company to meet our Platinum threshold

requirement. OnLine Training may be a small company in terms of employees

or revenues, but its ability to perform the kind of technical and

management resources necessary to manage an event that brings together in

real time presenters from every corner of the globe could not be duplicated

by *any* firm we know."

Global Learn Day II is a 30 hour non-stop web cast that will make "stops" in

23 "Harbors" and 12 "Skiff Coves", where leaders in technology and distance

education have gathered for this extravaganza.

Online Training is headquartered in Palm Beach, Florida. It's President,

Terry Redding may reached by e-mail at <terry@oltraining.com>

More details about the Company can be found at: http://www.oltraining.com

John W. Hibbs

Director, Benjamin Franklin Institute

of Global Education

Tel/Fax 619 230 0212

2529 Front Street

San Diego, CA 92103

http://www.bfranklin.edu

For the GLDII Voyage

Timetable, visit

http://www.oltraining.com/GLD2/toc.html

OLT.NET - OnLine Training adds a full array of internet technology services to its portfolio.

OnLine Training, Inc. has a technology division known as olt.net. This month we launch our technology services division with an agreement with a nationally recognized Internet Point of Presence services company. This collaboration will provide OnLine Training with ready access to the latest Internet Technologies with which we will be able to support online educational activities and a full list of additional services, which include web broadcasting, web magazine hosting, and web hosting. Our first two clients have already joined the growing list OLT corporate clients. They are Boomer Times and Senior Life of Boynton Beach, Florida and Adoption Solutions, of Heidelberg, Germany.

Dr. Redding has just completed a series of Adult Learning seminars for the University of Oklahoma.

OnLine Training will begin offering a series of workshops for educators and corporate trainers to expose them to notions associated with self-directed learning. Change is occurring at an ever increasing pace. Educators and corporate trainers recognize the importance of staying current. This means that individuals must engage in lifelong learning after completing their formal education. Redding has been conducting and reporting on research associated with how self-directed learning readiness is developed. For more information please contact admin@oltraining.com.

Access to Education: Global Learn Day, by Terrence R. Redding, Ph.D.

An article accepted by On the Horizon, an online Technology journal sponsored by Microsoft and Jose-Bass with a circulation of 140,000. The article will be featured in the September edition. You can find On the Horizon at http://horizon.unc.edu/TS/vision/1998-09.asp .

Abstract: No learning environment is ideal for all potential participants. Some individuals will find they are at a distinct disadvantage in one environment, while in another their disadvantages may disappear. Access for some may be restricted to distance education via the internet. Online education has been viewed by many as second best as noted by John Hibbs, Benjamin Franklin Institute of Global Education, in his May 1998 presentation to the Houston Rotary, Houston, Texas. It seems obvious, the instructor and the student seem to be isolated, separate from one another. Face to face communications are not possible.

Insurance Agent online Cram Course and Tutor - National Release.

OnLine Training, Inc. has released in generic Insurance Agent License Preparation Cram Course. This course is primarily designed for students who have completed a state approved pre-licensing course for Life, Health and Annuities. The course uses the Redding Method to increase the students speed of learning and retention through an educational psychology behavioral science methodology design. The Redding method combines structured learning, various modalities of learning, adult motivation theory, and adult learning theory in a completely online interactive learning environment. The student is exposed to only correct information. Cognitive links are shortened and actively reinforced through this online learning experience.

Glenn Pate, CPA has joined OnLine Training.

Mr. Pate will begin developing online training courses in the Accounting field specifically for online delivery.

Charles Lester, Ph.D. has joined OnLine Training.

Dr. Lester will begin developing online training courses in the Communications field specifically for online delivery.

Global Learn Day II - Access to the world of distance education.

Hosting sites for GLD2 are being sought. If you have access to the world wide web and would like to see others gain access and learn about distance education, consider volunteering to be a GLD2 hosting site. OnLine has volunteered to be a host and to maintain the list of hosting sites. Click here for more information.

Maria Gonzalez - OLT Administration - OnLine Training, Inc. Approved in California.

Maria Gonzalez announced March 30, 1998 that OnLine Training, Inc. was approved as an educational provider for the insurance industry in the state of California. OLT has been in contact with all 50 states. California is the second state, following Florida, to approve OLT as an educational provider.

Jack Rotzien - Insurance License Cram Course Release in beta - March 1998

OLT is proud to announce it's beta release of Health, Life and Annuities series cram courses. If you are preparing to take you state Health, Life or Annuities licensing exam these courses are for you. For more information please contact us.

Dr. Terrence R. Redding - Research paper selected by ERIC - March 1998

Dr. Redding's research paper "Training in Technology for Late Adopters: Learning in Retirement, Computers for Seniors" has been selected for inclusion in the ERIC database by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education.

Dr. Steve Kapplin - Guest Lecture in New Zealand - March 1998

Hi! Greetings from Auckland, NZ where Andi and I are staying with good

friends, Rod and Jan Jefferies. Rod is a senior lecturer in property

valuation at the University of Auckland. If you've seen any news on

Auckland you may be aware that the inner city is dark due to the failure

of all the major power lines supplying electricity to the CBD. I was

scheduled to participate in a seminar this Wed., but it now appears that

if the seminar occurs at all it will be on Mar. 19. I will deliver a 45

minute overview on US real estate property markets for 1998-99 to a

group of consultants and other real estate business people associated

with Ernst and Young's New Zealand operations.

On Mar. 20 I will present a two hour tutorial to New Zealand property

appraisers on forecasting methodologies, and later that day a two hour

lecture to University of Auckland real estate students on cash flow

analysis for income producing properties.

Until then Andi and I will play tourist. We will tour part of the

northern part of New Zealand near Auckland, then south to Lake Taupo and

Rotorua, then continue site seeing south to Palmerston North which is

located at the southern tip of the north island of New Zealand. There

we will spend 4 days visiting another colleague at Massey University.

I will do my presentations upon our return to Auckland. On Mar. 21 we

depart for Sydney, Australia where we will visit colleagues at

University of Western Sydney for two weeks before beginning our return

to the states.

That's the itinerary thus far. Will keep in touch along the way.

Steve

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Countdown To Global Learn Day II, October 10-11, 1998

This is the most exciting and informative conference of its kind on the planet today. Last year OLT participated in the first Global Learn Day. It forever changed our view of conferencing. From our new corporate offices in West Palm Beach, Florida we were able to learn about and then participate in Global Learn Day, all in less time than it would have taken to travel to the nearest conference site. During one brief day we were able to listen to and interact with others involved in the exciting new technology associated with education and training delivered over the internet. We were honored to make a brief presentation, summarizing our impressions of this first of a kind event.

Using the technology of streaming audio, one way video, and Java Chat we met and spoke with literally hundreds of individuals located all over the world who both presented and participated in the inaugural event. We gained an appreciation for the common problems each of us share as we seek to deliver education content via the internet. What could not have been accomplished in six months of travel and scheduling was accomplished in under 24 hours as we sailed aboard the Franklin Institutes Global Learn Day vessel.

I adamantly endorse this enterprise and encourage you to consider participating this year.

The Benjamin Franklin Institute of Global Education is proud to announce plans for Global Learn Day II

-- a FREE on-line Worldwide Distance Learning Celebration that will be held on all five continents on Columbus Day Weekend, 1998.

After completing their maiden voyage on Columbus Day, 1997, They are anticipating a blockbuster event this year, show casing the latest technology and addressing the broad questions confronting the changing world of education.

THEME: A Return Voyage to the New World of Distance Education and all of Its

Promise.

WHEN: Columbus Day Weekend,

October 9- Admiral's Party, New York

Launch: 00:00 Greenwich Mean Time, Saturday October 10

WHICH IS EQUIVALENT TO THESE TIMES:

In New York, 19:00 hours (7pm Friday, October 9)

In San Diego, 16:00 hours (4pm Friday, October 9)

HOW WOULD YOU *BRIEFLY* SUMMARIZE THIS EVENT:

Building on our Inaugural "Voyage", GLD II is a: Conference where the globe's leaders

in distance education make interactive presentations with each other and which can be

accessed with real time audio and video streaming; it is an Exhibition of over 40,000

collegiate courses available over the Internet from hundreds of colleges worldwide as

well as an exhibition of extraordinary conferencing, training, tools and software

capabilities; it is an Expedition that begins in Guam, where the planet begins the new

day, and travels on a "voyage" to every continent where, at 18 foreign Ports,

interactive real time conference and presentations are made.

WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT THAN THE INAUGURAL VOYAGE?

Last year was a small, experimental exhibition and conference whereas this year the

"ship" will hold thousands of passengers and carry a huge cargo of new ideas, new

tools and new information in a format where tens, perhaps hundreds, of thousands can

participate.

The "voyage" itself will be similar in that the Franklin Ship will launch from Guam and

travel westward through the South Pacific, to Hub Ports in New Zealand, Japan,

China, India, The Emirates, South Africa, Egypt, Russia, United Kingdom, Brazil,

Mexico, Canada, New York, Oklahoma, Texas, California and Hawaii where the

closing ceremonies will be held.

WHAT ELSE IS DIFFERENT

Several of the Hub Ports will hold REGIONAL LEARN DAYS ranging from four to

twelve hours in length, some in their local languages as well as in English. Viewers

from any part of the world can choose to visit these REGIONAL EVENTS, more of

which will be detailed in the summer.

WHAT ELSE IS DIFFERENT

There will be five Explorer Panels which will hold, independently of the Voyage and

independently of the Regionals, and each other, each one of these Panels to last for

approximately eight hours, each one lead by a distinguished leader of his field.

WHAT ARE THESE EXPLORER PANELS

PANEL ONE - English as a Foreign Language - Opening doors to opportunity.

PANEL TWO - ACCESS - Whether physically challenged, or poverty stricken, the

Internet levels all playing fields.

PANEL THREE - TOYS, TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGY - Follow The Boston Trail for

the latest and greatest in Internet course ware and training delivery.

PANEL FOUR - GLOBAL CONFERENCES AND GLOBAL EXHIBITIONS - GLD II

Doing Today that which will be common ten years from now.

PANEL FIVE - GLOBALIZATION - IDEAS, ACADEMICS, GOVERNANCE, ISSUES -

Not since Copernicus have the changes been so huge.

To learn more about Global Learn Day II, go to: http://www.bfranklin.edu/learnd.html

You can visit the archive of Global Learn Day I for a glimpse of the past.

We also have documentary of GLD-I available in RealVideo.

Download RealPlayer 5.0.  Then click here to watch!

Basic Education and Literacy Courses -

January 1998 OnLine Training, Inc. began beta testing the online Basic Education courses. If you have an interest in participating in the beta test please contact us. These courses are designed to be sold to individuals, organizations and institutions. The courses are guided learning educational experiences. Students participate online. The location and time of participation is completely up to the student.

Computer Training with OLT -

January 15, 1998 marked the beginning of computer training by OnLine Training, Inc. OLT's computer courses are specifically designed for late adopters of technology. A late adopter of technology, in terms of computer training, is defined as some one who wants to learn to use a computer, but previously chose not to learn to use a computer. Our computer courses are founded on adult learning theory, adult motivational theory and notions associated with self-directed learning. These courses are delivered on site in private clubs, here in the Palm Beaches of Florida.

Orlando Multimedia `98 - February 18-20, Hyatt Orlando Hotel, Kissimmee, Florida

Sponsored by the Society for Applied Learning Technology (SALT). The 16th annual conference and exhibition on "Interactive Instruction Delivery and Distance Learning Systems. This conference will feature presentations on:

• Distance Learning and Telecommunications.
• Internet Applications
• Interactive Instructional Materials Development
• Industrial and Management Training
• University and Public Education
• Electronic Performance Support Systems (EPSS)
• Legal and Technology Issues

Terrence R. Redding, Ph.D., founder of OnLine Training, Inc. will present a research paper on Education and Training. The title of his presentation will be "Training in Technology for Late Adopters: Learning in Retirement, Computers for Seniors."

Contact SALT at 800 457-6812 or conference_info@lti.org for more information. You can also visit their Web Site at http://www.salt.org

12th International Symposium on Self-Directed Learning - February 19-22, 1998, Radisson Resort Parkway, Kissimmee, Florida

Approximately 50 of the world's leading experts on self-directed learning in business and industry, education and other sectors will lead a variety of sessions on one of the most stimulating and productive learning concepts of the century. Representatives of several high tech business areas will make presentations. Researchers and practitioners will lead discussions of self-directed learning in business, elementary through graduate education, health, leadership and other topics.

Terrence R. Redding, Ph.D., will present a research paper on the relationship between historical events and the development of High Self-Directedness in learning. It is Dr. Redding's belief that self-directed learning, the learning that individuals engage in through their own choosing, will become increasingly important in the 21st century. Further, Dr. Redding believes parents and educators can have a positive impact on the development of High Self-Directed Learning Readiness in children by management the learning environment.

Organized by The Public Managers Center of   The University of Oklahoma

Co-Directors - Huey B. Long, The University of Oklahoma and Gary J. Confessore, The George Washington University.

For more information - Contact Gary J. Confessore, 2301 S. Jefferson Davis Hwy, Suite 702, Arlington, VA 22202. Voice: 703 418-2805 FAX 703 413-5440

E-Mail: HEALDEDD2@aol.com

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