Description: A description of the of FAP design and development process. The release of FAP Module 1 earlier this year marked a significant achievement for the Society of Actuaries' basic education system.

Description: The SOA Board considered the report of the Accreditation Implementation Task Force, approved the Task Force's two recommendations and initiated an Alternate Route study task force.

Description: This month, Expanding Horizons had the opportunity to interview Tim Boonen, the winner of the Society of Actuaries’ (SOA’s) second Actuarial Science Early Career Award.

Description: Discusses the Validation by Education Experience and how to achieve credit.

Description: Author advocates reconsidering the 2005 education syllabus to include the study of modern finance in the syllabus for all actuarial students, not just those specializing in finance, investments, or risk management.

Description: Increasing technology is available to create and disseminate educational resources worldwide. In response, this article advocates creation of open educational resources (OERs) that will benefit the actuarial profession with both recruitment and retention of members. Specifically, we describe OER contributions made at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and more recently through the ASTIN Academy, a working group of ASTIN, the non-life section of the International Actuarial Association. We advocate pushing boundaries and creating new ways of teaching effectively for the future. The innovative use of technology and open-source materials is a way to foster diversity, equity, and inclusion in the actuarial profession.

Description: Stuart Klugman provides a preliminary education update as it pertains to Exams P/1, FM/2, and MLC.

Description: Notes of the September 11. 2007 Education and Research Section Council Conference Call including discussion of the 2005 Halmstad Prize and the Expanding Horizons schedule.