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Getting A New Spin: Online Learning

Online Learning as an Outlet for Motivation
Most people who are motivated for success always find a niche where they can become better. As Rome is not build in a day, being a financially successful person will need a constant pounding to force one to change his ways. In achieving financial freedom, theory and practice is [...]

Advantages of Online Learning

Based on my 20+ years experience in distance education as a student, administrator, recruiter, and faculty member, I know firsthand that there are numerous advantages to online learning.
Listed below are my Top Ten advantages of earning an accredited online degree. Check them out and see if an online education makes sense for you.
1. Accredited Online [...]

Online Learning From the Comfort of your Own Home

Online learning varies from traditional education in that it does not limit learning within the physical boundaries of classrooms face-to-face with the teacher. Online learning really means “a classroom without walls.” Unlike traditional education where students learn under the supervision and guidance of teachers, students engage in assisted, self-directed learning.

In the past, it was difficult [...]

Career Training Through Online Education and E-learning by 2010

The appeal of an online education through distance learning as an educational alternative is ever increasing. “Its presence will continue to grow”, say curriculum directors, who expect that by 2010 nearly a fifth of students will be taking some of their career training coursework through online education or E-learning at an [...]

Elearning – Continuing Education from Around the Globe

My nephew recently decided that he would like to enlist in the armed services and joined up with the Navy. However, he also wanted to continue his education and work towards his degree in computer science which he had started a few years back. At first he was unsure if he would be [...]

Why Traditional Colleges Will Continue To Survive And Thrive

With online education continuing to explode, some people feel the days of traditional colleges are numbered. One online educator even said that traditional colleges are becoming a place vagabond youths go to congregate.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Below are the reasons I think traditional colleges will continue to survive, thrive, and play big [...]

Adult Continuing Education and Youthful Living After 40

There are two kinds of people in life: those who continue learning well past the last ringing of the high school class bell, and those who are trudging through life praying for retirement.
In my own life, 40 have finally arrived. Am I old? No. Should I feel old? Why?
School is twenty years in the past [...]