Begin a Work-at-Home Career with the Training and Education You Need! Train at Home to Work at Home This unique guide provides comprehensive resources on more than 200 distance-learning programs that can teach you 27 of the most popular and profitable work-at-home careers. Distance-learning programs have exploded in the last few years---courses are now available online, via e-mail, via teleclass, through the mail, on audiotape, on videotape, and even on CD-ROM. You can learn: graphic design at UCLA professional writing at Washington State University life coaching at CoachU Web site design at Penn State financial planning at University of Alabama interior design at the Art Institute International medical transcription at the Health Professions Institute and many more. Plus, extensive resource lists (organizations, books, and Web sites) complete each section. Full contact information, tuition rates, and course descriptions make comparisons and contrasts a breeze.

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This report provides specialist information and application-oriented recommendations to implement innovative environmental vocational education and training (VET) measures and practices. Chapter 1 explains study method and structure. Chapter 2 provides an overview of the current state of environmental VET in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden. Each summary provides basic data on environmental VET; lists legislative decisions on integration of general environmental education into schools; discusses initiatives regarding specific environmental VET; and describes and evaluates the most important training initiatives related to use of solar energy and geothermal energy. Chapter 3 contains a short discourse on the concept and meaning of innovation from the point of view of system theory and for VET before presenting and evaluating these case studies of innovative training initiatives: use of solar and geothermal energy in Greece, Austria, Germany, and Denmark and wind energy in the Netherlands; labor-market integration of specific target groups in Denmark, Sweden, and Spain; social partners initiatives in Austria and Sweden; and local continuing training initiatives in Luxembourg. Chapter 4 analyzes skills requirements for specific target groups and discusses the extent to which good practices can be transferred. Chapter 5 estimates the new gainful employment and jobs created through environment-related occupations. (Contains 49 references.) (YLB)

For more than 25 years, this guide has been the trusted source of information on thousands of educational courses offered by business, labor unions, schools, training suppliers, professional and voluntary associations, and government agencies. These courses provide academic credit to students for learning acquired at such organizations as AT&T, Citigroup, Delta Air Lines, General Motors University, NETg, and Walt Disney World Resort. Each entry in the comprehensive ^INational Guide^R provides: ^L ^L ^DBL Course title ^L ^DBL Location of all sites where the course is offered^L ^DBL Length in hours, days, or weeks ^L ^DBL Period during which the credit recommendation applies^L ^DBL Purpose for which the credit was designed ^L ^DBL Learning outcomes ^L ^DBL Teaching methods, materials, and major subject areas covered^L ^DBL College credit recommendations offered in four categories (by level of degrees) and expressed in semester hours and subject areas(s) in which credit is applicable. ^L ^L The introductory section includes ACE Transcript Service information. For more than 25 years, this guide has been the trusted source of information on thousands of educational courses offered by business, labor unions, schools, training suppliers, professional and voluntary associations, and government agencies. These courses provide academic credit to students for learning acquired at such organizations as AT&T, Citigroup, Delta Air Lines, General Motors University, NETg, and Walt Disney World Resort. Each entry in the comprehensive ^INational Guide^R provides: ^L ^L ^DBL Course title ^L ^DBL Location of all sites where the course is offered^L ^DBL Length in hours, days, or weeks ^L ^DBL Period during which the credit recommendation applies^L ^DBL Purpose for which the credit was designed ^L ^DBL Learning outcomes ^L ^DBL Teaching methods, materials, and major subject areas covered^L ^DBL College credit recommendations offered in four categories (by level of degrees) and expressed in semester hours and subject areas(s) in which credit is applicable. ^L ^L The introductory section includes ACE Transcript Service information.