Hermosa Beach, CA โ€" Troy State University has chosen ParaComp's patented Smart Scienceโ„ข education system to provide laboratory experience to its distance learning students around the world. The Troy State University Fort Benning campus includes soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq among its students. During each of its two-month terms, 150 students enroll in the school's distance learning science courses. Troy State University has four campuses in the state of Alabama and over fifty locations world-wide. Until now, no satisfactory online method of providing lab experience was available.
After an online live demonstration of the capabilities of Smart Scienceโ„ข education and reviewing several of its 75 laboratories, the Troy State University science faculty recommended using Smart Scienceโ„ข labs for distance learning courses. Dr. Judy McCarley, Associate Director for Academics Fort Benning Campus, approved the decision, and the first labs will be delivered this month.
Smart Scienceโ„ข labs will be used in courses teaching earth science, chemistry and biology.
According to Dr. Harry Keller, President of ParaComp, Inc., Smart Science labs fit perfectly with the demands of distance learning. He said, โ€œThe ability to do real science on a remote computer provides a key ingredient for remote science learning. We're looking forward to expanding the number of courses and the number of labs used by each course. Our modular software allows each professor to tailor the learning experience to specific classes.โ€
The science areas covered by Smart Scienceโ„ข labs include data analysis, periodic motion, waves, electricity, speed and acceleration, statics, biology, heat, sound, earth science and chemistry.
Troy State professors using the system include Virginia June Tieken, Gerald Marano and Dennis Mitchell. Each professor has selected specific Smart Scienceโ„ข labs to enrich course curricula. Students log in to ParaComp's server to reach accounts set up for each class. A Java applet provides the display and interaction required to make the lab experience come alive for each student.
Because students can do labs on their own schedule, redo any experiment repeatedly and require only an online computer to run the labs, the Troy State faculty expect this new service to work well with students who are far from Fort Benning, Georgia and other Troy State University campuses.
ParaComp's Smart Scienceโ„ข labs use real experiments to teach students to observe phenomena, collect data, and select and test hypotheses as they work to identify the principles involved. Because they are delivered in volume, the cost for an experiment can be as low as pennies for each student.
For more information on Smart Science, see http://www.smartscience.net.
The Smart Scienceโ„ข backgrounder is at http://www.smartscience.net/news/Backgrounder.html.
ParaComp's web site is at http://www.paracompusa.com.
Troy State's web site is at http://www.troyst.edu. The web site for the Fort Benning campus is at http://www.tsufb.edu.
(Chicago - September 6, 2005) Argosy University announced today that it will assist students from universities in New Orleans, southern Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama universities, which were closed for the foreseeable future due to the devastation caused by Hurricane "Katrina."
Argosy University will be available both on campus and online courses that would allow dislocated students to progress in their academic careers during this semester of disruption. University students forced to close as a result of Hurricane Katrina may register at any one of 13 Argosy University campuses across the country on course for the space may have for the fall terms.
Argosy University will waive training for dislocated students who have already registered and paid for training at home institutions for the fall 2005 semester. If dislocated students have not yet paid their studies at home institution, they will be judged less than the current published studies and fees at home institution, or Argosy University, has published studies and fees, as defined in the Argosy University campus president.
"Argosy University operates today, providing educational assistance to students the impact of Hurricane Katrina," said Dr. Gregory O'Brien, president of Argosy University. "Argosy University for the welfare of these students, and this initiative is our way to go with the sympathy and goodwill for the victims . We promise to do everything we can to assist students in the area of the Gulf Coast to continue their education and continue to be in their lives. "
According to the American Council on Education, more than 30 colleges and universities in the region of the Gulf Coast were severely damaged by the hurricane, and perhaps 100,000 students who were expelled from their schools.
Argosy University offers doctoral, masters, and a bachelor's degree in psychology programs, counseling, education, business, information technology and organizational leadership.Doctoral degree programs in clinical psychology (accredited by the American Psychological Association), available in several Argosy University campuses. Argosy University will assist dislocated Ph.D. and Psy.D. students on an individual basis. Choose associate degree programs in several fields of medical sciences are available from the University Argosy / Twin Cities, located in Eagan, MN.
Argosy University has campuses in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Honolulu, Orange County (Santa Ana, California), Phoenix, San Francisco, Bay Area (Port Richmond, Calif.), Sarasota, Schaumburg (IL), Seattle, Tampa , twin cities (Eagan, MN), and in Washington, DC (Arlington, VA).
Students seeking information about Argosy University initiatives can visit the website of the University (www.argosyu.edu) or by calling the National reception at 1-800-377-0617.
With 13 campuses nationwide, Argosy University (www.argosyu.edu) offers undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate degrees in business disciplines, education, medicine, and psychology and behavioral sciences. Argosy University is accredited by Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North Central Association (NCA) (30 North LaSalle Street, Suite 2400, Chicago, IL 60602, 1.312.263.0456, www.ncahlc.org). The parent company of Argosy University, Education Management Corporation (www.edmc.com), is one of the largest providers of private higher education in North America, based on the student's admission and revenue. Students receiving more than 66,000 as of fall 2004. EDMC has 71 primary campus locations in 24 states and two Canadian provinces. EDMC education institutions to offer a wide range of academic programs concentrated in the media, art, design, fashion, culinary arts, behavioral sciences, health sciences, education, information technology, legal studies and business fields, culminating in the conclusion of an associate in the doctoral degree. EDMC has provided career-oriented education for over 40 years.
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