High Schools Enroll in Columbia University's Online Courses; Six High Schools Across the Country Offer Columbia Interactive's Information Technology Courses to Students.Business Editors/High-Tech & Education Writers NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 22, 2001 Columbia Interactive Arts & Sciences today announced that select high schools across the country will offer Columbia Interactive courses to their students starting this spring. Participating high schools that have partnered with Columbia Interactive to offer the online courses include: Grandview Preparatory School preparatory school: see school. preparatory school School that prepares students for entrance to a higher school. In Europe, where secondary education has been selective, preparatory schools have been those that catered to pupils wishing to enter , Boca Raton, Fla.; Regis High School Regis High School is the name of several Catholic secondary schools in the United States:
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Columbia Interactive Arts & Sciences (http://www.as.columbia.edu) is the newly created online presence for Arts & Sciences at Columbia University in the City of New York. Columbia Interactive was formed through a partnership with Cognitive Arts, a leading designer of educational software that bases its "learn-by-doing" methodology on 25 years of academic research into how people learn, remember and reason. The courses most popular with the high schools are classes in information technology such as Introduction to Java and Introduction to C++, which are difficult to provide at the high school level. "We conducted a lengthy search to find online courses to offer our students and Columbia Interactive far surpassed others in the field. We found that the `learn by doing' approach coupled with their significant technology advances and the Columbia University name, rendered it the best of the best in the field," said Jeff Devin, founding headmaster, Grandview Preparatory School, the first high school in the country to offer Columbia Interactive courses to its students. "This partnership we are now entering with Cognitive Arts and Columbia Interactive further validates Grandview's institutional mission of fully incorporating educational and business technologies into the traditional academic setting." "Cognitive Arts uses technology to create learning environments that are truly dynamic and stimulating. These courses are designed so students of any age, whether high school students or corporate workers, can learn skills that they can apply in a job or in life," said Dr. Roger Schank, founder and chief technology officer for Cognitive Arts Corp. About Columbia Interactive Arts & Sciences As one of the most exciting and innovative opportunities available on the Web, Columbia Interactive offers online access to world-class educational experiences. Interactive technology is leveraged to create a highly individualized in·di·vid·u·al·ize tr.v. in·di·vid·u·al·ized, in·di·vid·u·al·iz·ing, in·di·vid·u·al·iz·es 1. To give individuality to. 2. To consider or treat individually; particularize. 3. learning experience based on the powerful benefits of learning by doing. Students participate in authentic simulations to acquire knowledge and learn new skills that can have an immediate application to real-world situations. They have the flexibility to move forward at their own pace, learn from missteps and build on each success. In a feature unique to Columbia Interactive, expert tutors provide extensive individual guidance and feedback throughout each course. Later this year, Columbia Interactive will introduce an expanding range of traditional Arts and Sciences courseware including economics, psychology and physics. Additional information technology courses, Introduction to HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. and Introduction to SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. , are scheduled to be offered the end of Q1 2001. To learn more, visit www.as.columbia.edu or call Columbia Interactive toll-free at 866/500-4771. For customized corporate programs and services, contact a Corporate Account Representative at 866/353-6089. About Cognitive Arts (www.cognitivearts.com) Cognitive Arts is the leading designer and developer of virtual university and professional e-learning solutions for the education and corporate markets. Its curricula have been used by thousands of students and Fortune 500 employees. Clients have included Hewlett Packard, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , First Union, GE Capital, Harvard Business School Publishing Harvard Business School Publishing is a not-for-profit, wholly owned subsidiary of Harvard Business School. It operates as an umbrella corporation to manage a group of publishing products associated with the School, including Harvard Business Review (management journal), Harvard , Northwestern University and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), independent agency of the U.S. government, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1970 to reduce and control air and water pollution, noise pollution, and radiation and to ensure the safe handling and . With offices in New York, Boston and Evanston, Ill., Cognitive Arts optimizes technology to engage the student completely in the learning environment -- an environment which allows the student to learn by doing, fail safely and immediately learn through just-in-time coaching and expert stories. Cognitive Arts' "learn-by-doing" approach to education is based on the theoretical work and design strategies of its founder Dr. Roger Schank. Over the past 25 years, Schank has led the revolution in the scientific understanding of how people learn, remember and reason. Cognitive Arts investors include GE Capital and ING Furman Selz. |
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