Educator before her time. (Update: education news from schools, business, research and).Inabeth Miller of Cambridge, Mass., a pioneer in expanding learning through technology, died in January of kidney failure kidney failure or renal failure Partial or complete loss of kidney function. Acute failure causes reduced urine output and blood chemical imbalance, including uremia. Most patients recover within six weeks. . She was 67. Miller turned the Massachusetts Corporation for Educational Telecommunications from three employees into one of the premiere developers of distance-learning programs, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a story in the Boston Globe. In the mid-1990s, when she left, MCET MCET Massachusetts Corporation for Educational Telecommunications MCET Maryland Center for Environmental Training MCET Micro-Computer Electronics Technology MCET Michigan Consumer Evaluation Team, Inc was in 330 communities in 38 states, offering Japanese culture lessons and puppet-making from an artisan. "`Visionary' is the word that best describes Inabeth," says Jim Samels, who gave legal counsel to MCET. "She was a woman slightly ahead of her time." She served as chief executive of the Needham-based JASON Jason, in Greek mythology Jason, in Greek mythology, son of Aeson. When Pelias usurped the throne of Iolcus and killed (or imprisoned) Aeson and most of his descendants, Jason was smuggled off to the centaur Chiron, who reared him secretly on Mt. Pelion. Foundation for Education, which focused on professional development of teachers and supported multimedia programs. And she served as vice president of Lightspan Partnership Inc. in San Diego, Calif., before becoming vice president of academic affairs at Massachusetts Communications College Massachusetts Communications College (Mass Comm) was a private, two-year college located in Boston, Massachusetts. The school offered Associate Degree and certificate programs in broadcasting, Internet communications, multimedia communications, recording arts, and communication . |
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