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MEDIA ADVISORY
November 12, 2007
CONTACT:
Kathleen Frankle
410-414-2925
kfrankle@umd.edu
Missy Corley
(301) 405-6501
mcorley@umd.edu
COLLEGE PARK, Md.—Furthering education and increasing skill level is made easy today with online courses. In an effort to create greater awareness and appreciation for distance learning, the University of Maryland's Consortium for ITS Training and Education (CITE) invites you to try out our new online course on "Performance Measures."
Exactly what are performance measures? Course topics include the various aspects of performance measurement including characteristics and development process of performance measures, comparative measurement, and the current state of the practice. While the focus is on transportation performance measures, the course is designed to help users attain personal goals and job-related skills that could appeal to a broad range of workers, said Kathleen Frankle, CITE Program Manager.
CITE, part of the Center for Advanced Transportation Technology under the University of Maryland's Clark School Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, developed the "Performance Measures" course for the I-95 Corridor Coalition.
The "Performance Measures" course takes between two to three hours to complete and can be accessed free of charge on the I-95 Corridor Coalition's web site at: http://www.i95coalition.org/PerformanceMeasuresCourse/
"CITE's courses eliminate the inconvenience of attending courses away from the office by providing courses through an interactive web-based format," Frankle said. "All CITE courses are developed in an interactive web-based format. This means that the courses are accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week through the internet." The courses provide student interactivity through a stimulating mix of participatory activities, such as self-study quizzes, exercises or problems, and drag-and-drop pages, she said.
National Distance Learning Week is November 12-16, 2007.
About CITE
The Consortium for ITS Training and Education (CITE) was formed in late 1998 as a result of the need to provide transportation engineering students and professionals with an integrated curriculum covering the transportation engineering (a branch of civil engineering), computer science, systems engineering, and business knowledge necessary to work in today's advanced transportation field. CITE is a unique organization of over 100 universities and industry associations focused on providing comprehensive advanced transportation training and education. To date, CITE has developed twenty eight individual short courses, 10 blended courses, 3 certificate programs, two full semester courses and five courses in Spanish.
Below are some comments from students who have taken other CITE courses:
- "I found the course informative and useful in my job. I will recommend the course to people I am associated with in the traffic industry."
- "Thank you for the opportunity to attend this class and I look forward to more classes online."
- "Definitely a worthwhile learning experience."
- "This has been one of the best values I have seen in continuing education."
About the A. James Clark School of Engineering
The Clark School of Engineering, situated on the rolling, 1,500-acre University of Maryland campus in College Park, Md., is one of the premier engineering schools in the U.S.
The Clark School's graduate programs are collectively the fastest rising in the nation. In U.S. News & World Report's annual rating of graduate programs, the school is 15th among public and private programs nationally, 9th among public programs nationally and first among public programs in the mid-Atlantic region. The School offers 13 graduate programs and 12 undergraduate programs, including degree and certification programs tailored for working professionals.
The school is home to one of the most vibrant research programs in the country. With major emphasis in key areas such as communications and networking, nanotechnology, bioengineering, reliability engineering, project management, intelligent transportation systems and space robotics, as well as electronic packaging and smart small systems and materials, the Clark School is leading the way toward the next generations of engineering advances.
Visit the Clark School homepage at www.eng.umd.edu.
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