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SJS / Surrounded by ideas and knowledge, a virtual feast of plenty. A Tip of the GreenPolicy360 hat to the OU on the 50th anniversary of the Open University / March 2019

• https://50.open.ac.uk/

• https://youtu.be/TrKIImWQejI

• https://twitter.com/BBC/status/1106888124796469248

Where you start in life shouldn't limit where you go

We are a movement... We are disruptors, occasional troublemakers, game changers

We are the fuel of imagination

• http://www.open.ac.uk/

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Western Governors University

Environmental Studies Online ---- Higher Education / Continuing Education / Distance Learning

WGU

Education without boundaries™

• https://www.wgu.edu/

Four online colleges. 60+ flexible degree programs.

The first university where all bachelor’s and master’s degrees are competency-based, with online courses designed in partnership with leading employers. We’re nonprofit, driven entirely by a mission to serve students—in fact, it’s right there in our name. We’re called Western Governors University because we were created by a group of U.S. governors, an innovative solution to their states’ demand for high-quality, outcomes-oriented higher education.

SJS / GreenPolicy360 siterunner: I was asked by the Governor of New Mexico in 1996 to represent our state in the creation of the "Virtual University". In the 1990s, as a member of New Mexico's State Board of Education, I could see future opportunities more clearly in my roles on the state's technology council and with educational technology. At the time I was responsible for oversight of bringing the Internet into some 900 schools and I welcomed the role to create a new educational vision -- an online, accredited university. In my travels in 1969/70 I had become impressed by the new UK "Open University" and realized in the 1990s that online networks could provide new media access to top-level professors and educators and be made available to every student geographically. The idea of bringing 'remote learning/distance learning' to all students in our state and states around the country and world was immensely appealing. My goal, also, was to make higher education affordable and in New Mexico I worked to propose a full-tuition college scholarship, which was funded with a state lottery scholarship program. The combination of access and funding came to be. Each of the original Virtual University founding states appointed a member to serve on the work group and we set in motion what was formally announced in 1997 -- the new Western Governor's University.

The WGU and NM lottery scholarship are well into their second decade of success now in 2019. Education is the key to opening doors for every student and lifelong learning is an opportunity all of us deserve. It is a torch we are all passing forward, eye opening education and all that education brings with it.

Salud to the WGU and OU !

• https://www.wgu.edu/about/our-story.html

• http://www.wgu.edu/about_WGU/WGU_story

Go Digital: Information Technology Degree

(WGU Via Wikipedia)

The Western Governors University is a private, nonprofit, online university based in Salt Lake City, Utah. The university was founded by 19 U.S. governors in 1997 after the idea was formulated at a 1995 meeting of the Western Governors Association.

In January 1997, 13 governors were on hand to sign the articles of incorporation formally beginning the new university.

In 2001, the United States Department of Education awarded $10 million to found the Teachers College, and the first programs were offered in Information Technology.

US Department of Education ... "the innovative student-first model used by this school and others like it has garnered bipartisan support over the last decade." In January 2019, the U.S. Department of Education's Federal Student Aid (FSA) office issued their final audit determining that WGU was indeed eligible to participate in federal student aid... The news editor for Inside Higher Ed, said the "much anticipated high-stakes audit" had begun more than four years earlier and the findings were "not a surprise to most observers", due to their reliance on a 1992 law that defines aid eligibility for distance education programs.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Governors_University

(WGU Via Social Media)

• https://twitter.com/wgu

• https://www.linkedin.com/school/western-governors-university/

• https://www.facebook.com/wgu.edu/

• https://www.wgu.edu/newsroom.html

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Wikiversity

• https://www.wikiversity.org/

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Science & the Environment, Pathways to New Definitions of Security

"Scientific thinking is essential these days." -- SJS / GreenPolicy360 Siterunner

National Center for Science Education

https://ncse.ngo/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_for_Science_Education

Earth Science Research from Space

Planet API

Virtual Earth

New Definitions of National Security

Conservation Medicine -- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_medicine

Conservation medicine is an emerging, interdisciplinary field that studies the relationship between human and animal health, and environmental conditions. Also known as ecological medicine, environmental medicine, or medical geology

Conservation medicine teams may involve physicians and veterinarians working alongside researchers and clinicians from diverse disciplines, including microbiologists, pathologists, landscape analysts, marine biologists, toxicologists, epidemiologists, climate biologists, anthropologists, economists, and political scientists.

Dot Earth - Knowosphere

An Exercise to Sift for Sources Amid a Blitz of Fake News

Tracking the Facts - Backtrack Journals

By Andrew C. Revkin / November 24, 2016

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References / Reading

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Educational_websites

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Online_education

• http://www.powersofplace.com/new/pdfs/POLITICS-POLICIES.pdf

Fact-Checking Sites

Fact Checking @GreenPolicy360

80 Countries-237 Fact-Checking Sites (2020)

60 Countries-188 Fact-Checking Sites (2019)

37 Countries-96 Fact-Checking Sites (2016)

MediaWise for Teens

PolitiFact via Poynter

Poynter Int'l Fact Checking Network

Poynter Int'l List

Reporters Lab Fact-Checking News

Climate Denial / Misinformation -- Fact-finding & Response

ClimateFeedback.org

Climate -- Crocks, Denial, Facts & Vids

Desmog Blog

Desmog & Climate Change

Denier Database

Desmog Perspective

Denier Favorites

Drilled - Corp Sponsored

Grist on Skeptics

PEN America, Envir Writing, How to Defend Yourself and Your Work Online

Re: Misinfo of 'Planet of the Humans' Documentary

Rebutting Climate Denier Talking Pts

Skeptical Science Site

Skeptical - Attacks on Climate Models

Snopes on Climate

Techniques of Science Denial (Graph)

Techniques of Science Denial (Video)

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Higher Education in the Digital Age by William G. Bowen / Hardcover/Paperback/Kindle

http://www.amazon.com/Higher-Education-Digital-William-Bowen/dp/0691159300

Digital Rights

Explore a Digital World at GreenPolicy360

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Digital_Rights

Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM)

Building students' skills, content knowledge, and fluency in STEM fields

https://www.ed.gov/Stem

FutureLearn / Science, Engineering & Math (STEM)

https://www.futurelearn.com/subjects/science-engineering-and-maths-courses

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Green Marketing

Sustainable Management - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_management

Arizona State https://schoolofsustainability.asu.edu/

ASU Online https://asuonline.asu.edu/online-degree-programs/undergraduate/bachelor-arts-sustainability

Columbia http://ce.columbia.edu/sustainability-management

Harvard https://www.extension.harvard.edu/academics/professional-graduate-certificates/sustainability-certificate

St Petersburg College, Florida http://www.spcollege.edu/sustainabilityBAS/

University of Colorado https://sustainable.colorado.edu/

University of Wisconsin http://sustain.wisconsin.edu/degrees-and-certificates/masters/

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Renewable energy commercialization

Explore the Renewable Energy Job Field

Renewable energy continued its rapid growth ... new records are being set for installed wind and photovoltaic capacity and global renewables investment. A key benefit that this investment growth brings is a growth in jobs ....

"Green Gold" -- https://www.nature.com/articles/nenergy201611

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Idealist: Working to Make a Better World / Environmental Job Opportunities

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GreenPolicy360: We're Into Science, Everyday

GreenPolicy360 (eOS)

A central goal of GreenPolicy360 is to provide news of environmental and related political and economic initiatives, science and data.

As an eco-resource reporting developments within a wide range of environmental fields, GreenPolicy360 looks to facts and 'good' science.

Our site attempts to be an e-resource that features reporting that is factual and verifiable. We approach eco-questions and -challenges with a problem-solving perspective.

NASA's message: Our Green Policy Message -- Good science, sound decision-making based on science, needs good data

GreenPolicy360: Our Position on the Use of Science

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