CSDi Summer Academy 2011: July 12 | 500 Join Our Development Community in First Year
Center for Sustainable Development
July, 2011 Newsletter
July, 2011 Newsletter
CSDi Summer Academy 2011: Upcoming Online Development Courses: July 12, 2011
OL 341. Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change 1
OL 101. Designing and Funding Sustainable Development Projects
Advanced Courses:
OL 343. Community-Based Adaptation 3: The Community Focus
OL 303. Food Security, Nutrition, and Starting Home Gardens 1
OL 344. Adapting to Climate Change 4: Sustainable Implementation
OL 303. Food Security, Nutrition, and Starting Home Gardens 1
OL 344. Adapting to Climate Change 4: Sustainable Implementation
THIS MONTH'S NEWS
| Applications being accepted for CSDi Summer Academy 2011 | |
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Join us in July for an intensive series of courses with other students from all over the world. If you are returning student, take a course that you haven't taken before. Or, use this opportunity to begin with the first course of a community-based adaptation to climate change certificate program—or an Integrated CBA, DRR, & Rural Development diploma program. The courses begin on July 12. |
| New Online Diploma Program off to a good start: Over 100 enrolled in Diploma Courses in May | |
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OL 440 Diploma Program: Integrated CBA, DRR, and Rural Development:
Over 100 people from around the world enrolled in the May launch of courses for our new diploma program that integrates community-based adaptation to climate change, disaster risk reduction, and rural development. You're not to late! Many of these courses begin again in July. Click here to learn more.
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| 500 Join Pro Development Community in First Year |
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Be sure to visit CSDi’s Development Community. Join over 500 colleagues in sharing resources & collaborating online. The CSDi DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY invites people active in development or interested in learning, to share resources & collaborate online in developing sustainable, impact-oriented tools and solutions for development challenges.
Find and share information on climate change, food security, health and hygiene, subsistence farming, education, water, forests, health, sanitation and more. Promote your organization's events.
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| CSDi's Community Facebook Page has 450 New Fans Since December |
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Share your ideas and links to information on this development page—and then find out what others like you are doing to solve challenges in their communities and on their projects. Our online students frequently use the Facebook page as a forum for requesting ideas for their projects from other students and from the community at large. We also post our “CSDi Online Lite” courses on the Facebook page so that you can see what the inner workings of the courses are like—and be able to better understand the context of student discussions on the page. Visit our Facebook page—and please 'Like" us when you are there! |
| Become the Solution | |
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Are you a donor, a development practitioner, in a job transition, or a student who wants to learn more about what works in designing impact-oriented projects? Online course participants are using our courses to develop real, on-the-ground projects with real communities—both individually and through North/South student partnerships.
Our online courses use each class assignment as a concrete step in developing a real project within a real community. You will take an assignment into the field and use it as a solution-oriented activity that you do together with community members—thereby finishing one component of the project you are developing in the class. And there you have it: an online field course with tangible, concrete results.
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Consider helping more students provide positive impact for a community-in-need by sponsoring a scholarship—it's easy!
What's happening in the region where you live?
Please write us with your stories, thoughts and comments through Online.Learning@csd-i.org or post them at the Development Community, at our Facebook Page, or on the Center’s Blog.
Please write us with your stories, thoughts and comments through Online.Learning@csd-i.org or post them at the Development Community, at our Facebook Page, or on the Center’s Blog.
Be sure to visit CSDi’s Development Community. Join 500 colleagues in sharing resources & collaborating online.
Like us: CSDi Facebook.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Tim Magee, Executive Director
To learn about student projects in real time, please visit our Facebook Page or CSDi Development Community to see their postings—or our Field Projects page for in-depth project information.
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