Home schooling is taking the country by storm. Increasing numbers of families are choosing to provide the three R's and a whole lot more to their kids at home. They want to be sure their children are gaining the knowledge they'll need to succeed in an increasingly challenging world. Well, guess what? In many families, it's not just the kids who are learning at home.
One of the most compelling educational developments these days is at-home learning for Mom and Dad, whose careers depend upon their abilities to add new knowledge and develop increasingly complex skills. Harvard and Stanford business schools, two giants of executive education, announced late in 2000 that they'll join forces to deliver an online executive education program. Executive Training Resources, Inc. will also be offering a library of 44 online IT, HR and other specialized courses.
An exciting new player in the field of online executive education is Women in Technology International's Leadership Xcellence Online. They offer both women and men the chance to actually test their leadership skills via an online assessment and then earn certifications in a variety of leadership and business areas.
The courses now available include:
- The Emerging Leader
- Negotiation, Conflict and Collaboration
- Strategic Thinking
- Systems Thinking
- Leading Change
- From Intuition to Implementation
- High-Performance Teaming
So create a schoolroom cubby somewhere in your house, because odds are 10-to-1 you'll be doing some home schooling yourself sometime in the next year, either through a regular schedule of professional reading or a variety of online learning experiences. Given the rate of change and the constant onslaught of new information and challenges, you don't really have a choice.
This article originally appeared on Monster.com.
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