Online Study, adapts Life and Work Smoothly

It is 8 p.m. in the night and Nadia Espinosa is in front of her computer with baby son in her lap, engrossed in virtual classroom on the internet. Being a working mother Espinosa felt strongly that she could earn her paralegal certification only if she would access online programme, which perfectly fitted her busy schedule. 

Like Nadia, there are thousands of aspirant mothers who feel the need of accessing higher degrees to find a reputable work life. Being a mother dedicating 9 hours a day in traditional classroom is impossible, but the online mode makes it feasible to juggle between work and life, simultaneously. Herein, colleges and universities are playing the most important role to reach out education into homes. After all, academic institutions are turning into benefactor of quality education to those who require flexible learning mode.

Colleges playing significant role in boosting web courses- Here is how

Gradually, a large number of schools and colleges from stretches of the globe are getting engaged in catering web based education to enthusiastic students. They may be housewives or working professionals or aged people who stay at home or young people who have just stepped into professional lives. Colleges and universities are collaborating with online education providers to cater web courses to those students.

Numerous schools are shouldering responsibility of boostng their online offerings to enable working adults add extra dimension to their career skills. If you look up the internet, you will be happy to find the new 2012 findings according to which about 6.7 million students consider at least one online course as part of study curriculum. To add more to the good news, 60 percent of those aspirants are engaged full time in jobs. 

So, it can be said that online education is gaining prominence gradually and the future is not far when the majority of students will get engaged online for higher studies. Let’s delve further into the benefits of online education and how it ensures study and work without hampering either.

Online Education tackles both with ease

Online education is meant for anyone who wants to pursue twin responsibilities of work and study at the same time. Today, professionals are most ambitious about working and learning without creating confliction between both. Seems, the online mode is their best option to help them achieve higher education so that they can manage their schedule most efficiently using multi-tasking features. Only the best part is these online degree courses are suitably designed to cater to the needs and interests of varied demands without forcing aspirants to compromise with either study or work. Nonetheless, one has to be self disciplined and motivated to ensure flexibility in learning without hassle.

People who have good sense of effective time management are worthy of better careers. Remember, only hard working and efficient individuals deserve to finish those web courses on time. Many people prefer participating in online courses due to cheaper tuition fees, freedom and flexibility of studying. Remember, only competitive and hard working people deserve to be part of distance education, which needs dedication and sincerity to follow the course. 

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The basic advantage is you can log into a course while at home and study at your own pace without any hassle. Research says that online students gain huge success and privileges in their career and go on to create milestones by achieving compelling success in the long tenure.   

Zombies getting Connected to Online Education through a Popular TV Show

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Where education stands as a highly serious topic, how can it connect zombies? Well, it’s no less a bulletin that a US television company, Edutainment is heading to establish a partnership with a top-notch Californian university for producing online courses in connection with a popular TV show.

With such an amazing initiative, digital boundaries created between academia and the entertainment industry will be blurred to a good extent. The course which will be based on the Walking Dead, the popular post-apocalypse drama series, will be launched in the next month. Although the television show comprise spin-off video games or merchandising, this drama in regard to surviving disaster and social collapse will now be having its own course.

University of California’s, Irvine who will set up the online courses said these are going to be academically rigorous and handle critical scientific issues in regard to the events included in the show. For instance,

·        Physicists will be investigating for the ‘Science behind decay’

·        Public health department will make use of the series to conduct studies on questions like, “What can we learn from past epidemics?”

·        Math lecturers will be analysing on how “Post-calculus maths can be utilised for epidemic dynamics as well as for modelling population.

A legitimate educational experience for online learners

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Theresa Beyer, the vice-president of AMC says that this showbiz-academic partnership will help students and working professionals enjoy a pure and legitimate educational experience. Moreover, the partnership will also highlight another development in the Massive Open Online Courses that have been established extensively and have even made way to the Oxford online dictionary just a couple of weeks back.

Well, it was the previous year when millions of students signed up for online courses. This showed how demanding were these courses for completing higher studies. However, it was found that those millions failed to complete the online courses since they couldn’t accept the challenge of learning online.

MOOCs taking a new form

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Coming back to the zombie-based online course, this will comprise around 8 modules and one would be able to easily access it without paying any fee. On the other hand, universities will now be producing MOOCs. This means that students who will be enrolling in universities will grab the opportunity to give online tests and join discussion groups. However, students who will complete the course will not be getting any formal qualifications or credits. Therefore, the course will be designed for those who wish to pursue it as per their own convenience.

Despite, a question has been raised whether this online course will stand effective or not. University of California’s Irvine says that they have researchers who are Nobel Prize winners and they also contribute around 4.3 billion dollars to the local economy. In this context, Melissa Loble, the university dean of distance learning, said, “When we entered this partnership it was really important to make each of the modules as academically strong as they would be in our classes at UC Irvine... the lessons will be academically rigorous and rich....”

TV-based online courses might be a major hit

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University of Buckingham’s Alan Smithers who is the director of the Centre for Education and Employment Research here also have contributions towards strengthening the value of these TV-based online courses. Smithers said that building connections with a popular TV show might emerge to be a brilliant way of alluring students.

Josh Coates, head of In-structure said that he wants people to take the Walking Dead course as a fine example for connecting education and entertainment. In fact, the globalisation of this online course can lend a new meaning and significance to education through which one would find it easier to complete higher studies with ease.

Source: www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23931078