Archive for 'distance learning'
Ten Things You Didn’t Know About Online Education
Posted on Nov 03, 2009.
College students are seeing online education as a standard nowadays. Students have stories about their community college online class experience, and there are some students that are taking advantage of complete online degree programs.
Before taking a dive into the online education experience, here are ten things to consider about online education that you might’ve not [...]
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What is Hybrid Learning?
Posted on Oct 30, 2009.
Hybrid learning is considered the most effective method of postsecondary education according to the U.S. Department of Education’s 2009 study. Hybrid learning combines the benefits of both classroom and online education to provide the optimal learning experience for a college student. But how exactly does hybrid learning work?
The Hybrid College Program
The most common method of hybrid learning is a college program that has specific campus and specific online courses integrated into its regimen. An example of this is Coleman University‘s academic programs that offers Distance Education alternative for classes outside of the core program taken at the campus; this basically means that the student may choose to take general education courses online and major-specific courses on campus.
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Five Quirky Benefits an Online Education Gives Your Career
Posted on Oct 19, 2009.
The typical benefits that prospective college students hear about when it comes to online education programs are flexibility, convenience, and customability. The flexibility to go to class when you want, so that your education works around your schedule instead of the other way around; the convenience to go to class where you want, so that you may attend classes while traveling or deployed; and the customability to go to class how you want, with as little or as much time as you need put into readings, assignments, and exams.
But what about the benefits of online education after you graduate? An online education program is considered just as well off, if not more respected, than a campus-based education so long as it is from an accredited college or university. In addition to maintaining the repuability of educational quality, the online education comes with the five following additional benefits:
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Creativity Brings Innovation Back to Business
Posted on Oct 07, 2009.
The economy is bolstered large-in-part by small business. Why is this?
Not only does it open the doors to more employment opportunities, it brings innovation to the forefront. This creative edge is quintessential to business changes. Creativity is often neglected in the education industry though, all the way from K-12 education to the college level, so a degree that embodies both business practice and creativity–like a Degree in Organizational Change–would be a unique addition to any company, large corporation to budding small business.
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Discover Online Learning
Posted on Aug 14, 2009.
The Online Education Blog partners with Discover Online Learning to bring prospective and current college students the resources needed to research online degrees in the healthcare and business industries, as well as in hot degree subjects like Information Technologies and Criminal Justice. Discover Online Learning brings several blogs together in one, comprehensive source for the prospective college student.