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Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon computer science professor whose last lecture became an Internet sensation and best-selling book, has died of pancreatic cancer. He was 47.
“I always thought every day was a gift, but now I am looking for where to send the thank you note.”
~ Randy Pausch
The motivational book – The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture – Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
Among students over 50, Osher has had an enormous impact. About 400 lifelong learning institutes exist in the US and Canada, most of them affiliated with colleges and universities.
These noncredit, fee-based programs are often part of the community-outreach programs of universities, and thus vulnerable to cuts or even elimination during tough times. Yet Osher has made grants of more than $77 million to this field, establishing or strengthening 121 such programs across the country.
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Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak says education was a primary motivation for his inventions.
He said he always imagined that one day computers would be able to serve as virtual teachers, giving students one-on-one instruction that cannot be delivered in traditional ways.
Online enrollment for the University of Phoenix in Houston grew 19 percent over the previous quarter.
Technology has made the classes more appealing, using podcasts, PowerPoint presentations, texting and online chat rooms.
“What initially draws them is convenience,” said Marshall Schott, assistant vice president for instructional support and outreach at the University of Houston. “They don’t have to deal with parking. They don’t have to deal with commuting, with high gas prices.”
ASUNews – The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s slate of classes, workshops and lectures, which already spans metropolitan Phoenix from Buckeye and Surprise to Mesa and Florence, is set for further expansion. Collaboration with the city of Tempe has established “Tempe Connections” course offerings starting this fall at the Tempe Library. The Institute also has formed partnerships with Arizona Opera and the Phoenix Art museum to offer joint programming.
“Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”
~ Samuel Ullman
There are many examples of the world being vastly improved by people from older generations who did not give up on learning because they saw no immediate use for what they were doing at a particular instant in time.
Here are a few: Curious, inventive mind key to lifelong learning
Louis Pasteur once noticed that in “the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.”
