Archive for November, 2008
Join the Crowd!
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The financial crisis started a long time before anyone really took notice. I can remember hearing students complaining about how difficult it was to get a college loan starting at least 15-18 months ago. I didn’t pay too much attention […]
WGU Featured in TIME Magazine Article, “Go Western, Young Man”.
STORY: “Let’s not waste anyone’s time or money. You won’t find that phrase emblazoned on a T shirt, but it’s essentially the motto of Western Governors University (WGU), a private online school that has worked hard to prove it is anything but a diploma mill…”
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Avoiding Procrastination
Procrastination. It is the curse of students everywhere, whether online or not. It haunts you for the rest of your life. It takes control of your inner being and transforms you into a creature that you would rather not be. OK….it’s October and I’ve already eaten too much candy corn. But seriously, procrastination can make […]
What is a Blog?
I am an Elementary School teacher. I have worked with all different grade levels. We have covered the water cycle, the food chain, and the rock cycle. We talk about how kindness begets kindness. “What goes around comes around.” Life, it seems, operates in a circular pattern. A good blog, in my experience, should operate […]
Online Degrees vs. Traditional Degrees: No Significant Difference
Study after study has consistently come to the same conclusion that there is no significant difference in outcomes between learning in a traditional classroom and learning online. (However, there are some who raise valid points about how we ask the question, but they address technology and the role it plays, not the outcomes.)
As shocking as […]
