Global Education Network, a company founded partly by Herb Allen, the president of the venture-capital firm Allen & Co., has approached Williams and Brown University, among others, with an invitation to contribute course material to a proposed for-profit Web site providing on line liberal arts education for adults.
In her statement, Drake said she was working for Wicked Pictures at the Lake Tahoe golf event and accepted an invitation to walk the course with the billionaire.
It is an invitation to hybris, of course.
Early in her faculty career, an invitation to teach a course on women and biology ignited an interest that led her to shift her research focus from doing science to studying women in science.
For example, in a study by Deslauriers et al. (2012), students who performed poorly on the first exam in an introductory physics or introductory oceanography course received an email invitation to meet with the course professor to discuss their current study strategies and reflect on how they might improve them.
Specific study groups were different from the three aforementioned learning models under the face-to-face category, as they usually began with a member posting an open invitation to study certain courses together in the community's Facebook group.
Even when Phil became an assistant pro at the famous Pebble Beach club in California, Sal would visit but never accepted an invitation to play the great seaside course.
Indeed, in the spring of 2001, the board of the Imperial Sugar Company, the country's largest sugar maker, reached Mr. McLaughlin, 69, on the golf course with an invitation to join its board as it prepared to emerge from bankruptcy.
All nursing staff working on the participating hospital wards received an invitation to participate in the e-learning course, resulting in 1,196 invitations being sent.
We do state of course in our invitation to referees that authors will be offered a choice about whether their revisions are seen by their reviewers.
