Three Rivers Community College, with funding with the Connecticut Business & Industry Association (CBIA), partnered with Connecticut’s photonics industry to provide innovative training programs in optics, lasers, and fiber optics. This summary highlights a collaborative training effort to provide a distance learning Certificate in Fiber Optics. Best practice for blended learning features assistance by company mentors. This approach was developed to address training objectives and company goals.

Date Published: 9 December 2004
PDF: 8 pages
Proc. SPIE 5578, Photonics North 2004: Photonic Applications in Astronomy, Biomedicine, Imaging, Materials Processing, and Education, (9 December 2004); doi: 10.1117/12.597444

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 5578:
Photonics North 2004: Photonic Applications in Astronomy, Biomedicine, Imaging, Materials Processing, and Education
Marc Nantel; Glen Herriot; Graham H. McKinnon; Leonard MacEachern; Robert A. Weersink; Rejean Munger; Andrew Ridsdale, Editor(s)