| Online course, of course! | | Posted Tuesday, January 24, 2006 2:23:49 PM by Kate Grant | When deciding, if you would like to pursue your education online, it's better to begin with a good look at yourself, not the list of courses offered. You should selects a program based on your intellectual interests and professional goals. 
In a program such as this, you'll find degree options for students who prefer to take all their courses online, and you'll be able to decide if you've got what it takes and if you're disciplined enough to find the time to study.
With the ongoing tendency of earning an online degree, you'll come across many online colleges and universities offering degrees and diplomas in the traditional way.
Online courses has become an industry worth millions, from children learning online as part of a homeschooling system or getting online help with their math homework, to courses offered in just about any subject under the sun, computers, business, even how to become a paralegal.
However, If a degree is not your goal, and you're seeking a different kind of studies, you'll find an array of free online courses or online training courses with even more topics and themes, you never thought existed.
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| | | Quest Continuing Education Solutions - Only $34.95 for Full Online ... | | Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 12:52:02 PM by Blog57 Team | | Quest Continuing Education Solutions, the nationally approved provider of continuing education programs announced today that it offering a new insurance continuing education program that will help agents meet their regulatory requirements by allowing them full access to Quest's library of courses for as low as $34.95. With this new program, agents can take courses offering more than 24 state approved credits for one low price. Brookfield, WI (PRWEB) January 17, 2007 -- Quest Continuing Education Solutions, the nationally approved provider of continuing education programs announced today that it offering a new insurance continuing education program that will help agents meet their regulatory requirements by allowing them full access to Quest's library of courses for as low as $34.95.... | |
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| | | Grad wins award for research on online courses | | Posted Monday, November 27, 2006 12:54:08 PM by Blog57 Team | | Penny Merena, a May doctoral graduate of UD, recently received the applied research award from the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA) for her study of retention rates in online courses. Presented at UCEA's Awards of Excellence ceremony held during the association's annual conference in Annapolis, the award honors Merena's UD doctoral executive position paper, "Increasing Retention in Online Distance Education Courses." While a doctoral candidate in UD's School of Education, Merena administered a survey to students enrolled in online distance education courses offered through the division of Professional and Continuing Studies (PCS). She also analyzed student data to measure success and retention rates. The study indicated that the type of technology used to deliver a course affected students' satisfaction and success and that students are most successful when the delivery system is web-based, as opposed to CD-ROM, videotape, or interactive television.... | |
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| | | WOLI Is First Online Paralegal Training Institute to Receive Prestigious Middle States Association Accreditation | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 10:49:55 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Washington Online Learning Institute (http://www.woli.com/), the nation's longest established, Internet-based learning school for paralegals, has received accreditation from the Middle States Association (MSA) of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools. WOLI is the first exclusively online educational institute to be so accredited for professional training by the MSA. Founded in 1919, the MSA is one of just six regional accreditation agencies sanctioned by the U.S. Department of Education. Among the more than 500 institutions accredited by the MSA include Princeton, NYU, Columbia, Georgetown and the 29 colleges that comprise the State University of New York (SUNY). After conducting a rigorous onsite evaluation of its curriculum, faculty and facilities, the MSA commission voted affirmatively on WOLI's accreditation at a meeting on October 27.... | |
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| | | Students' life plans go online | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 2:54:30 AM by Blog57 Team | | It's called an Individual Graduation Plan, designed to map out students' educational and career aspirations, and since 2002 every public high schooler in Kentucky is supposed to have one. But many students never received a plan, state education officials acknowledge, while others' were seriously flawed. .... | |
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| | | Report: Number of students taking online courses rises | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 6:54:47 AM by Blog57 Team | | (AP) -- Roughly one in six students enrolled in higher education -- about 3.2 million people -- took at least one online course last fall, a sharp increase defying predictions that online learning growth is leveling off. A new report scheduled for released Thursday by The Sloan Consortium, a group of colleges pursuing online programs, estimates that 850,000 more students took online courses in the fall of 2005 than the year before, an increase of nearly 40 percent. Last year, the group had reported slowing growth, prompting speculation the trend had hit a ceiling. "The growth was phenomenal," said Jeff Seaman, Sloan's CIO and survey director, who also serves as co-director of the Babson College survey research group. "It's higher in absolute numbers and higher in percentages than anything we've measured before.... | |
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| | | Number of students taking online courses rises | | Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 10:54:01 AM by Blog57 Team | | UNDATED A new report says more people are logging on to learn. The Sloan Consortium, a group of colleges with online programs, says enrollment in online courses has jumped by 40 percent in just one year. A year ago, the group reported the growth of Web-based learning had stalled. The consortium's director says the increase goes "across the board" and includes everything from associate degrees to doctorate programs. Another survey by research firm Eduventures says only half of those students are pursuing actual online degrees. The rest are either taking individual courses or are enrolled in a mix of Web-based and traditional classes. The Sloan survey says a majority of academic officials think students learn just as well in online courses as they do in classrooms.... | |
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| | | Online courses open up wide world | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 12:52:52 PM by Blog57 Team | | DEPTFORD -- Damien Lekkas can sit at his home computer, sign onto a Web site, and have all he needs for his Advanced Placement biology course right before his eyes. "The thing that's kind of intimidating is there's not a teacher in the classroom, so you can't raise your hand if you have a question," said Damien, a junior at Deptford High School. "But it's just a matter of getting used to it." At Deptford High, a class period is set aside for the nine students taking online classes; Damien, a junior, said the 42-minute period usually isn't sufficient to finish his work, so he goes online at home. Each student is directed to enter the online course site a minimum of three days a week. Damien's teacher is in Mississippi. Students are able to ask questions and post comments, which Damien said are answered within a couple of hours.... | |
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| | | Eco Groups Use Online Maps in Mine Fight | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 10:51:06 AM by Blog57 Team | | Vicco, KY -- Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets his porch and car if a few days go by without rain. His electricity goes out repeatedly when the coal miners accidentally knock down power lines. But the worst thing of all, he says, is that the mountain peaks that once loomed over his lifelong eastern Kentucky home have been flattened by dynamite and bulldozers. "When I was young, it was a really pretty place," said Campbell, 53, who lives in a hollow called Bull Creek near Vicco. "Now it's just a rock pile. You can't do nothing with it." Now environmentalists have found a way to let the rest of the world see what mountaintop coal mining has done to Appalachia: They have started a Web site that uses the Google Earth database to enable people to see aerial reconnaissance photos of the scarred countryside.... | |
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| | | SkillSoft Supports 'Ban Bullying at Work Day' by Offering Training to All Via 3 Online Courses | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 10:52:27 AM by Blog57 Team | | (PRWEB) November 3, 2006 -- Tuesday, 7th November 2006 is 'ban bullying at work day', organised by the Andrea Adams Trust; the charity that focuses on tackling bullying in the workplace. In support, online learning provider, SkillSoft, is making three full courses available to all via the demonstration area of its website. .... | |
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| | | Move on up to new courses | | Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 3:04:23 PM by Blog57 Team | | WESTER Hailes' Whale Arts Agency has launched short courses in music and movement. Jam sessions for musicians, singers and songwriters will be held on Fridays, while on Mondays, a women's music and movement class will run. Both will be from 10am to noon. To book places, call 0131-458 3267. This article: http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1629762006 Last updated: 03-Nov-06 12:13 GMT .... | |
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