Monday, March 22, 2010

New Collaborative Learning Labs let you continue the conversation and learn more

Rutgers University’s Bloustein Online Continuing Education Program is offering a new type of webinar that allows to keep learning by giving you six weeks to continue online conversations with your classmates.

Learning Labs are 60- to 90-minute live webinars covering a wide variety of topics, including community development, economic development, planning law, professional practice, sustainability and urban design.  The new format, called Collaborative Learning Labs (COLAB), is a series of Learning Labs connected by an online community space.  The space is open only to COLAB participants.  You can continue the conversation through discussion forums, share and download documents, or find other resources.

Although each COLAB course includes four to five webinars, you can sign up for one or all webinars and get access to the community space. 

The first COLAB course is Urban Design for Community Development.  This five-part series, running from April 14 to May 26, 2010, explores such issues as:

*The connection between urban design and community development,

* How to “read” a community through its urban design, and 
*Visualization techniques for community development
Five Learning Labs will take place in April and May.  The community space will be open from April 14 to May 31.  Each Learning Lab in a COLAB course is $35.  There is no extra charge to participate in the community space.

The instructor is Juan Ayala, an urban designer and community development planner with 15 years of experience around the United States.

Learn more about the Urban Design for Community Development series.
Learn more about the Bloustein Online Continuing Education Program
The Bloustein Online Continuing Education Program is produced by the Professional Development Institute of Rutgers University’s Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. 

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Saturday, March 20, 2010

New Jersey Planning Law modified to accommodate license test takers

The Bloustein Online Continuing Education Program is making it easier for those taking the New Jersey Professional Planner exam. 

Because the exam is from May 3 to May 17, we are moving the start date of the class to April 7.  The course would end May 8.  (Learners pursuing a Professional Certificate would have until May 15 to complete the final exam.)

The instructor is also making the practice exam available throughout the entire course.  In earlier versions, the practice exam came at the end of the course. 

New Jersey Planning Law helps you learn what you need to know to pass the exam by giving you the time to learn at your convenience.  Class exercises and online discussions with the instructor, Brent Barnes, AICP/PP and fellow classmates can help you better understand land use law in New Jersey.

For anyone who got their Professional Planner license more than a year ago, this course is a good refresher.  There were a number of changes to the laws over the past five years. Are you completely up to date?  If not, please join us in New Jersey Planning Law.

Learn more or register for the class.


Learn more about the Bloustein Online Continuing Education Program.

New Jersey Planning Law is a Deep Learning course.  It is designed to help you learn at your convenience through the Internet.  We recommend taking this course along with the one-day session offered by the American Planning Association New Jersey chapter.


PDI Network members can get a scholarship worth up to $145 for this course.  Join the PDI Network by subscribing to our newsletter.

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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

BOCEP learners can get free scholarship for Introduction to New Urbanism class

If you have taken at least three BOCEP Deep Learning courses, you are eligible to get a free enrollment in our upcoming Introduction to New Urbanism class.  Three full scholarships are available for this course, which begins March 10 and runs to April 17.

The first three eligible recipients to contact us will be given the free scholarships.  To get the scholarship, please contact PDI Programs Manager Swena Gulati at swena@rutgers.edu or at 732-932-3822, x636

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Monday, March 1, 2010

Members of Latinos and Planning now get $100 scholarship toward BOCEP Deep Learning courses

Members of the Latinos and Planning division of the American Planning Association are now eligible to receive a $100 scholarship toward any Bloustein Online Continuing Education Program Deep Learning course.  This scholarship is to help diversify the pool of leaders for urban planning and public affairs in the 21st century.

Membership in Latinos and Planning is open to all people, regardless of whether they are members of the American Planning Association. Learn more about Latinos and Planning.

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