Eighteen months ago Lamar University College of Education and Human Development entered into a partnership with a service provider, Higher Ed Holdings, to give Master of Education degrees in Educational Administration and Teacher Leadership through an innovative internet-based delivery program. A master’s degree in Educational Technology Leadership has recently been added. The Lamar University Academic Partnership (LUAP) was created for numerous purposes to address the need for affordable, accessible masters degrees for teachers throughout the state of Texas, to strengthen Lamar’s programs by means of careful study and implementation of greatest practices in the content areas and in instructional style for innovative deliveries, and to increase enrollment in the master’s degree programs at Lamar University. It is evident that we have had success in these areas and that we ought … Read entire article »

  Curricular Changes in Teacher Education     India is a developing country. We have thousand years of Tradition and Culture. Different types of people are living in India. In olden days the educational institutions were called as ‘Ashramam’ and teacher was called as ‘Guru’. Guru is a respectable person in the society after mother and father. According to our Vedas Guru is a third God. In olden days they were given importance for shravana, Dhyana and Asana. All types of information are there in Vedas. Yoga is a greatest gift of India to the world. Yoga has its origin in the Vedas, texts that were heard by ancient sages in their state of meditation, and hence are known as srutis. The great sage Vyasa organized the Vedas in a systematic manner. Hence he … Read entire article »