Saturday, August 27, 2011
In its 57th year, the Advocis Banff School was held at the Banff Centre, from August 21 to 25, 2011. This is a continuing professional development (CPD) and networking experience for financial and insurance advisors and planners, run on a volunteer basis (including speakers) by advisors for advisors. It was my first year attending. In [...]
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Tagged advisor, Advocis, Banff Centre, Banff School, CE, CHS, CLU, continuing education, continuing professional development, CPD, Edmonton, health, Insurance, life, RHU
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This was one of those posts where it could have gone on either this blog or my learning related one. It was about a Linkedin group I created for professionals in or related to the life and health insurance industry. Well, I wrote it on the other blog. It is not long, if the topic [...]
I’m up early and looking forward to today’s conference. As a member of Advocis, I look forward to their full day of educational activity for advisors. Held at the Crowne Plaza Chateau Lacombe in Edmonton, it promises to be a day of learning, networking, and good food. Continuing Education credits will be more important for [...]
Saturday, January 29, 2011
If you follow my other blog, accessible from the home page of this site, you will know where I am at with the studies for which I have been preparing over the past year and a bit. I have now applied to, been accepted, and commenced, as an advanced graduate research student toward the PhD [...]
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Friday, December 31, 2010
It will come as no surprise to many readers that lifelong learning is important to me. All of my higher education has occurred since entering the workforce. Specifically relating to financial services and insurance, you may have noted my completion of the Registered Health Underwriter (RHU) and Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) designations. I like to [...]
Well, perhaps not really a rumour, as I’ve often talked about having two passions! From this website and blog, you definitely know me as being in the insurance industry. You may also know that I love to talk about distance learning, both as a lifelong learner and as an educator. It may come as no [...]
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Tagged Chartered Life Underwriter, disability, e-learning, Edmonton, educator, insurance guy, learning technologies, life insurance, living benefits, money guy, PhD, Registered Health Underwriter, researcher, Tony Ratcliffe
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If you know me at all, you likely know I completed the Master of Distance Education through Athabasca University in 2002. I continue to present distance learning/education as one of my passions. I want to write about it. So, rather than add the posts to this blog, I am going to write at http://tonyratcliffe.com. My [...]
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Canadian Network for Innovation in Education (CNIE) was created through the merger of the Canadian Association for Distance Education (CADE) and the Association for Media and Technology in Education (AMTEC). I know that many in my social communities are involved with training, education, media, technology, etc., so I wanted to introduce CNIE to those who are not familiar [...]
Continuing education opportunities fit with my passion for lifelong learning. I just returned from a wonderful Business Building Workshop held in Canmore at the Radisson Hotel & Conference Centre. Thanks go to Financial Management for sponsoring this event. Financial Management is the Managing General Agency with which I associate, and one of their services is [...]
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