Featured Articles:

• Beta testing Update
• Helping Low Income Adults and People Lacking Basic Skills: WTCS Initiative
• Enhancing Nanoscience Curriculum with DACUM and Curriculum Mapping
• WIDS Trains Instructors in Junior Leadership Corps Pilot Program; Innovates Course Design

This issue highlights the status of our new web-based application and features three clients who contracted our services in curriculum development. Clients range from a technical college, to a college system, to a partnership with the National Association of State Boards of Education and the U.S. Army.

Featured Articles:

• New Doctoral Program Combines Online and Face-to-Face Learning
• Making the Move - Web-harnessed WIDS
• Army JROTC's 21st Century Curriculum Debuts
• WIDS Promotes Leah Osborn; Hires Chris Shannon

This issue describes the importance of WIDS during development and accreditation of a community college leadership doctoral program (cover story), NATEF program and more. The JROTC's 21st Century Curriculum debuts, and status of web-based WIDS is highlighted.

Featured Articles:

• A Unique Approach: Going beyond Carl D. Perkins Compliance
• Closing the Gap in Inmate Training
• Michener's Unique Continual Improvement Commitment
• Volkswagen of South Africa Embarks on $55 Million Training Initiative

Featured Articles:

• Kansas Embarks on Massive Tech-ed Curriculum Alignment
• Correlating Learning Objectives to State & National Standards
  Junior Achievement Works with WIDS
• 'Green' Geothermal is Core to Indianhead's Revised Air Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Technology Program
• Northern Essex's Nursing Alignment Enhances Clinical Assessment

Featured Articles:

• 'Greening' Curriculum: Green Industry Technician
• Refining Wisconsin's Natural Resources Technician 
• Minnesota Revises Farm Business Management Curriculum
• Filling the Gap - New Disaster Preparedness Training for Health Care 

Featured Articles:

• WIDS Team Prepares for 2nd International User Group
• The Power of a Process: Practical solutions for implementing career clusters and other industry driven standards 
• Learning Activities for Today: Wikis, Blogs & Podcasts: Using them as part of a course or program is easier with WIDS
• Embracing Program Design for Continual Improvement of Curricula

Featured Articles:

• Transparency of Institutional Outcomes & Assessment
• Online Veterinary Technician Program Built from Scratch
• CurriculumBank: Online Curriculum Storage and Collaborative Curriculum Development
• Strengthening Assessment and Measurement: One College's Story
• Online Safety Modules Available to Public

Featured Articles:

• Mapping Curriculum: Four-year Institutions Seek to Better Manage Courses and Programs College-wide
• Performance-based Learning Changes South Africa's Business and Industry-The LR Group Uses WIDS for Training
• A Year in the Shoes of a First-year WIDS Coach
• Financial Education for a New Generation-NEFE's High School Financial Planning Program revised
• Online Courses Developed to Improve Emergency Response at State and Local Levels