Coaching Education by Bill Parisi and Martin Rooney

Franklin Lakes, NJ (PRWEB) October 14, 2010

Bill Parisi and Martin Rooney have released the first module in their new Parisi Coaching Education series for youth and high school coaches, Coaching Foundations. Coaching Foundations is a revolutionary new program designed to help coaches of all levels build strength, flexibility, speed and quickness in their athletes without sacrificing sports practice time. The Coaching Program comes with a complete step by step, on line coaching manual that explains evaluative and teaching methods in detail: 2.5 hours of downloadable video that shows each drill/ exercise with demonstrations by Parisi athletes and explanations by the best in the business. Followed by coaches and athletes in more than 100 countries, Parisi methods have built better athletes from 7 year olds to Olympians and built better teams from National High School Champions to the Pros.

To improve their teams competitive performance and prevent injuries, coaches know they have to improve individual athletic skills, until now that has meant sacrificing sport specific practice time. At the request of youth coaches, Parisi and Rooney constructed a program that works in the real coaching world. Based on 20 years educating over 250,000 athletes and thousands of coaches and extensive scientific research, Coaching Foundations incorporates the process of building a better athlete into what coaches do every day, in every sports practice.

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Tsing Hua Universitys Wen-Tsuen Chen Wins IEEE Computer Societys 2011 Taylor L. Booth Education Award

Los Alamitos, California (Vocus/PRWEB) February 28, 2011

Wen-Tsuen Chen, a Distinguished Chair in National Tsing Hua Universitys Department of Computer Science, has been named the recipient of the IEEE Computer Societys 2011 Taylor L. Booth Education Award.

The Taylor L. Booth award commemorates outstanding records in computer science and engineering education. Accompanied by a bronze medal and $ 5,000 honorarium, the award recognizes achievement as a teacher of renown through writing an influential text; leading, inspiring, or providing significant education content during the creation of a curriculum in the field; or inspiring others to a career in computer science and engineering education.

Chen received the award for contributions to computer science education in Taiwan and worldwide, and for promoting computer networking education at all levels. For more information about IEEE Computer Society awards, visit http://www.computer.org/awards.

Chen has served as department chairman, college dean, and university president. He received his BSc (1970) in nuclear engineering from National Tsing Hua University, and his MSc (1973) and PhD (1976) in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California at Berkeley.

Chen joined National Tsing Hua University in 1976, before establishment of Taiwans information and communication technologies industry, and since then has contributed to its development into a worldwide ICT center.

Chen helped found the Department of Computer Science of the National Tsing Hua University and founded the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the university. He has vastly expanded the capacity of the university in educating young talents for the ICT industries in Taiwan and worldwide.

In 1988, Chen began a four-year stint as a science and technology advisor to the Ministry of Education and helped establish the Taiwan Academic Network (TANet), the first Internet in Taiwan.

From 1992 to 1996, he served as director of the Advisory Office of Ministry of Education. He helped improve the information infrastructure of K-12 schools and initiated the computer systems, communications, and VLSI design education programs that significantly improved research infrastructure and teaching programs in universities to cultivate talents for the expanding ICT industries in Taiwan.

Chen was elected an IEEE Fellow in 1994 and received the Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Computer Society for his research accomplishments in computer networking and parallel processing in 1999. He is a Lifelong National Chair of the Ministry of Education, Taiwan.

The award is named after Taylor L. Booth, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Connecticut, his alma mater, and director of the universitys Computer Applications and Research Center. His name was on the ballot as a candidate for president-elect of the Computer Society when he died of a heart attack on October 20, 1986.

Active in the Computer Society for more than 16 years, particularly in its educational activities, Booth was instrumental in defining computer science and engineering curricula for program accreditation through the societys and IEEEs respective board. He also worked for closer cooperation between the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the IEEE Computer Society, served as a member of the Board of Governors, chaired the societys Constitution and Bylaws Committee, and held positions as first vice president, secretary, and vice president for educational activities.

About the IEEE Computer Society

With nearly 85,000 members, the IEEE Computer Society is the worlds leading organization of computing professionals. Founded in 1946, and the largest of IEEEs 38 societies, the Computer Society is dedicated to advancing the theory and application of computer and information-processing technology. The Society serves the information and career-development needs of todays computing researchers and practitioners with technical journals, magazines, conferences, books, conference publications, certifications, and online courses. For more information, visit http://www.computer.org.

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WCET Announces Awards for Outstanding Use of Technology in Higher Education

Boulder, CO (PRWEB) October 20, 2010

The WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies (WCET) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2010 WCET Outstanding Work (WOW) award, a competition that recognizes innovative uses of educational technologies in higher education. In 2010 the awards go to four ambitious projects, each addressing a challenging issue with a unique solution: changing the role of journalism and new media to promote civic engagement; providing adult learners with on-demand programs and services to encourage degree completion; increasing the adoption of open textbooks to lower student costs; and promoting the integrity of academic online programs.

These winning projects, which will be honored at the WCET Annual Conference on November 10-13 in La Jolla, California, include the following:

Foothill-De Anza Community College Districts College Open Textbooks Collaborative addresses the goal of textbook costs for community college students, a problem than can be a barrier to college success. The College Open Textbooks Collaborative, funded by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, has implemented a multifaceted strategy to increase adoption of open textbooks among community college faculty. The collaborative provides training for instructors adopting open resources; accessibility assurances and peer reviews of open textbooks; mentoring of authors opening their textbooks; research on factors that affect open textbook adoption; and advocacy support for other campus stakeholders in the adoption process. More than 500 open textbooks have been identified and catalogued online. Nearly 100 of these open textbooks have undergone extensive peer review, and many have been reviewed for accessibility standards. Watch the video!

Contacts:

Sharyn Fitzpatrick, Marketing

sharyn(dot)fitzpatrick(at)happyabout(dot)info

650-564-0011

Una Daly, Associate Director

dalyuna(at)fhda(dot)edu

College Open Textbooks, Foothill-De Anza Community College District

650-949-7118

Kentucky Virtual Campuss KCTCS Online Learn on Demand, a partnership of Kentucky Virtual Campus (KYVC) and the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS), is designed to provide working adult students with flexible access to learn on demand online courses and programs. Kentucky, like many states, has a statewide goal of increasing the number of bachelors degree holders and expanding upon program offerings that prepare students for the 21st century workforce requirements. Learn on Demand, formerly known as the Virtual Learning Initiative, features fully online courses that are modularized, self-paced, open-entry, and competency-based, with all content integrated into the learning management system, eliminating student expenditures for textbooks. The first programs launched include an associate degree in business administration, an associate degree in information technology, and certificates that address specific workforce needs. http://www.chriswitzke.com/kctcs/kctcs-online-2010-v2..mov.zip [Watch the video! __title__ Click this link.]

Contact:

Sandy Cook, System Director, Distance Learning Technologies

Kentucky Community and Technical College System

sandy(dot)cook(at)kctcs(dot)edu

859-256-3240

Rio Salado Colleges Peer-to-Peer Plagiarism Project detects plagiarism among its 36,000 online students, using exclusively internal staff and resources. The system is intended to deter cheating, which will greatly benefit students by helping to ensure the long-term value and integrity of Rios academic programs. As of March 2010, the system has scanned thousands of new student submissions and has detected 450 suspected cases of peer-to-peer plagiarismcases that would almost certainly not have been detected using more traditional monitoring techniques. John Jensen, current Rio Salado faculty president, praised the new system: The peer-to-peer plagiarism detection system is a key element in fortifying Rio Salados commitment to academic integrityIn the end we feel that this system supports authentication in the online learning environment that meets or exceeds the capabilities of the physical classroom. Watch the video!

Contact:

David Staudacher, Coordinator

Media Relations and Public Relations

Rio Salado College

david(dot)staudacher(at)riosalado(dot)edu

480-517-8472

Winona State Universitys Winona360 Civic Media Project is an interdisciplinary innovation laboratory for students, faculty, and information technology staff of the Winona, MN, region to learn and create in emerging media technology, while serving the area with news, information, education, and cultural expression. Winona360.org has been built on a conception of civic media. Civic media goes beyond the traditional journalism of news gathering and reporting and includes any form of communication (text, video, photography, virtual reality, gaming) by professionals and citizens alike. Winona360.org is a community Website, made possible by collaborations between Winona State faculty and students, as well as partnerships with Saint Marys University, Southeast Technical College, and local high schools, which have come together through this project to create a community classroom, supporting new forms of teaching and engaged learning. Watch the video!

Contacts:

James Bowey, Founder, Winona360

Winona State University

jbowey(at)winona(dot)edu

507-457-2605

Kate Carlson, Editor, Winona360

Carlsonwinona360(at)gmail(dot)com

815-508-1480

The WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies (WCET) accelerates the adoption of effective practices and policies, advancing excellence in technology-enhanced teaching and learning in higher education. More detailed information about the WOW award recipients and their projects is available on WCETs website at: WOW Media Release 2010.

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