Do you want to be liberated from the prejudices of your time and place, or do you want to be enslaved by them? You probably say that you want to be liberated rather than enslaved, and that’s the right attitude. But let’s take a deeper view of this matter, for ultimately we are dealing here [...]
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When Money is Tight, Distance Learning …
Horror stories are rampant these days. The economy has hit college students in two ways: many of their parents may have been laid off or lost their jobs to downsizing, and brick-and-mortar schools are raising their tuition so much that students are beginning to protest in large numbers. If you are a working adult interested [...]
Doing Research Online or Offline
Before the advent of personal computers and the Wide World Web you were pretty much limited to doing research the old-fashioned way. If you were lucky enough to be near a decent library, that’s where you went. And you looked in the catalogues and then went among the shelves and found the books you needed. [...]
Why Minor in a Subject?
You are undoubtedly familiar with such expressions as “plan B” or “something to fall back on.” Is that the idea behind a minor? Yes and no. A minor is more than likely to be in a subject or field that’s related to your major. A person majoring in English, for example, might choose either philosophy [...]
Gaining Expertise in Your Chosen Field: Your Major
It has been said by a wit somewhere that an expert is a person who knows more and more about less and less until he or she achieves the ultimate. At that point he or she knows everything about nothing. All joking aside, when you decide in majoring in a certain subject or field, you [...]
Education and the Internet
If you are reading this, you are using a computer and are on the Web. In other words, you are learning something – in this case about education – on the Internet. There is a lot going on that’s educational but not connected to any kind of formal education on the Net world-wide. People are [...]
Tips for Planning Your College Education
T.S. Eliot, the American-born British poet, once said that “there is no method except to be very intelligent.” Perhaps he was thinking of the time-honored idea according to which “there are no rules.” Or “rules were meant to be broken.” You could go on and think of other sayings related to the idea, like there [...]
The Distance Learning Phenomenon
Since the advent of the World Wide Web as we know it today there has been a lot of development online. Businesses have moved to the Internet – in addition to their brick-and-mortar locations. And new ones have sprung up that exist only online. There probably isn’t a school, a college or university, that doesn’t [...]
Why College? Why Now?
It takes money, it takes time. And today’s economy is still in the dumps. So why should you consider going to college now? The answer is clear: getting a degree will mean more life-time earnings for you than not getting a degree could ever do. There have always been arguments pro and con. And some [...]
Types of Online Education Degrees
[This article explains the various possibilities for getting an online education for a career in teaching. It compares the various advantages and disadvantages of online vs. brick-and-mortar schools. It also gives you links to several websites for further reading] The Internet Is Your Key to an Online Education The advent of the Internet has brought [...]