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Distance education is becoming a trendy way to learn in today’s educational environment. While it is still growing in popularity, it has been around for some time. It may not have been as sophisticated as it is now, but it has enjoyed a sustained history. The history of distance education is a long and storied one. Some of the greatest minds on the planet like Thomas Edison have been involved in its development.
What are the benefits of distance education? There are advantages for both the educational institution and for the student. The students get the advantage of flexibility. They can stay home and not have to pay for the gas and time that it takes to travel to school. They can enjoy the expediency of working school around their schedule instead of the other way around. For the institution, it can enjoy a broader base of students. They can also reach students ordinarily too busy to attend conventional classes.
The earliest instances of distance education can be traced to the 1700s with the creation of primitive correspondence educations. The distance learning movement took on a new head of steam in the early 1900s. It was then that film projection was introduced into particular classrooms. While it wasn’t as cost-effective as administrators had hoped, it still marked an early effort to to bring the moving image into the classroom.
Shortly thereafter radio was experimented with, but this too proved a bit unwieldy. The invention of television would make it possible to broadcast learning programs anywhere in the world. This obviously broadened the horizons of distance learners. They could learn about any topic under the sun as long as they had access to a television. The possibilities of television brought with it several big sponsors in the educational movement.
The Internet has changed distance learning yet again. From the calm of your home, you can log on and watch a lecture, read a book or correspond instantly. It has literally brought the classroom to your home. Many universities and colleges offer entire degree programs online. This means you never have to set foot on a university to get a great degree. Overall, the quality of the education has been found to be comparable with traditional universities and the convenience it offers is unparalleled. If you have been considering obtaining a degree, distance learning may be the way to go. Many universities and colleges offer superb distance learning, like the prestigious Ashworth College.
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Personally, since I need it anyway - I take advantage of the ‘part time student’ deferments you can got on a loan. If you take as little as six units your loan can go into deferment. Local community/city colleges usually have good rates per unit (My local city college is 20 bucks per unit) and I am usually able to make it job related so work pays for the classes. Currently I’m enrolled in a Database Theory course and SQL Server 2005 class - improving my work resume - allowing me to pay off the much higher credit card debts sooner…most local community/city colleges have night and or online courses that can be taken.
Missy99912 - Wow, thanks for the kudos Missy. You know, I read in People Magazine last night about how its medically recommended to only implant TWO eggs in a woman. OMG, how are these people squirting out six to eight kids at once? Sounds so dangerous to me. Congrats on the multiples!
TV Snark - If I you knew how I felt running this blog … people are CRAZY/RUDE/INSANE. I hate that I get sucked in to going GHETTO on them.
Jen - There is nothing wrong for a person to go to a bar. Drinking is fun. Reality show people have to just watch out what they do when they go inside them. I know that … and Jon should have been aware of that fact as well, right?
As for typos, I do make them myself on my own blog posts from time to time. But, its mainly because I have a stupid neurological disease. When I’m not sick/tired/stress/pressed for time I write very well and professionally. Your going to have to look around at read some posts about myself to understand for proof of that.
My pet peave is people who have no idea how to write … and this is my blog, so I’m entitled to say this. If a person makes one typo, I can deal with it as long as they aren’t being a jerk to me. But, if you want to emphasize a point, I expect people to write well. If you can’t write well I consider you dumb. My own BFF is a college professor and she has students who turn in their Theisis, and if she sees one correction on the first page, then they have to redo the ENTIRE paper. That’s just how it rolls in the academic world. Some colleges may let you slide but the good Universities will kick your ass.
Kelly, N, Ash, Liz - Are you serious? This family has never been normal. I need all of you to do this: Imagine what if Kate was a man, and Jon a woman and you saw Jon slapping Kate and yelling at Kate and telling Kate what to do all the time. Would you honestly feel they were lovable, normal and happily married couple?
For many many months I was ignorant about what many others thought about the Gosselins. Only when a friend emailed me did I look them up and start mentioning my feelins online. From the beginning of the show I felt something was “off.” You can’t expect people who go on to to be left alone. Fame always comes with a price. sorry.
Liz - I agree totally that the show has changed into something else. While I personally feel that KON was never a normal family, I realize that there isn’t a normal family in the entire world. They were interesting to me and I loved watching their beautiful children grow up. I still adore the children. I’m sorry if you feel the media is responsible for their issues because its totally the other way around. Their issues are causing everyone to start talking about them. Why else are any of you constanly searching the internet for them other than to find out gossip about them. If you really just liked the show you would just watch the show, buy their books, etc. People who I like, such as Tina Fey, I have no idea what they are like in real life. I don’t care. I don’t know her past, her history, who her friends are, what her favorite food is because that’s not normal to me to think about. Back in the day when old Hollywood existed, no one knew much about those stars … because they were such damn good entertainers. You fall in love on screen with them … and the ignorance was bliss.
google and FB pretty much killed charging for webapps model. Apple’s software is super cheap compared to what you get, even iphone apps are cheap. Apple is a hardware/media/telecommunications/software distributor company these days rather than a true software company..one can argue they were never were. You can still charge for IP; movies, music, video, and online services but webapps…unless it’s for enterprise forget about it. Colleges kids are all about free apps. $5 for a drink, no prob, $5 a month for FB….no way.
Check out Ashworth University, my experience with them has been absolutely great! Got my AA in Computer Info Management.
Amazing that with billions of human beings on the planet there aren’t more mad scientists. I think it goes to show the beauty of science as a self-policing system.
This is a difficult question to answer, but I believe Georgetown University has a program with Diplomacy as well as Linguistics, or you can choose from a multitude of languages: Arabic, Chinese, East Asian Languages, Eastern Mediterranean Languages, Italian, Slavic Languages, Spanish and Portuguese, and many more. I hope this helps!
by Jaylen Derell A lot of adults are returning back to school to further the educational learning. The competitiveness of this market has adults trying to stay in head of the younger generations entering the workforce. Because of the changes undergoing the U.S., adults need to acquire new skills to remain with the job title given to you to stay on top of their job. This is easier said than done for a lot of working adults though. Most adults today just don’t have the time to go to school. Ma
Very thoughtful piece. But to your “who wants to buy the discomfort of having your ideas challenged” point, I think you’re being too cynical. I actually market this notion to 1,000s of kids in secondary school and college-bound who are hungry for “more.” Challenge and the room to excel and push themselves is exactly what they’re looking for. I know you know who they are because you teach them at the schools with which you have been and are affiliated.
So, I don’t think it’s all about economics in the sense of slick marketers trying to sell a sugary version of higher ed. To me, the cautionary tale here is that a little more than a decade ago the end of print media was forecast and a lot of print professionals stuck their heads in the sand. While universities and newspapers aren’t perfectly analogous, I think Carey is simply saying “pay attention folks” because something has *got* to give on the price of higher ed. It’s not that students want it quick and easy, they just want to be able to afford to go to college.
You ask why must we assess the health or value by how the money flows? Because real people have to pay tuition and they can’t afford to. If we’re not careful our system will lose the gains of the last half century we’ve made, and we’ll be back to a quality undergraduate education being a luxury only for the rich elite.
Thank you for your comments. I do know the kids you are talking about and perhaps I am being too cynical. I only wish they all my students wanted more. I’m grateful that people like you promote rigor as a positive value.
I agree with Carey that colleges should heed what’s happening to newspapers, and I’m not proposing colleges should be a luxury for the rich elite. However, I don’t want them to follow the lead of online universities by offering what looks like the same product but isn’t. In education, as in most things, you generally get what you pay for. Colleges might not need to be so expensive–I’m sure I’d rather not pay the football coach so much!–but I hope they find a way to compete that includes boasting about what online institutions may not match.
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Hi Dot - The hard sell, I believe, arises out of desperation and focus on (needing) the money. It’s epitomized in the video - that’s all Baldwin’s character is about. The result is the depersonalization, and most people instinctively shrink or are repulsed. The buyer wants to feel in control of the situation, as you rightly say. While online shopping/browsing is fun and I love it, the human element that a good sales professional provides has helped me in the past. Personal shoppers used to be a big thing. Nordstrom, among other stores, still emphasizes this and encourages its salespeople to develop clientele. It sure makes you feel special, I know that. Sometimes rudeness or bluntness is the only thing that will deter a desperado though. It makes me want to speak to the manager every time, but I rarely do because I get tired of the “duh deer in the headlights” when I point out other techniques might be more effective. Thanks.
Hi Jessica - I saw you in action - I don’t think you know this - when I came into the store to buy shoes one time, and I was impressed. You clearly were very knowledgeable about your inventory and made great suggestions to your customer. In a rather impersonal store, like the one you worked at, that type of interaction stands out.
Yes, the science/psychology of sales is fascinating. People like Brian Tracy have made a fortune sharing their findings with folks who are eager to learn and apply/improve. I believe all marketing and business departments in colleges should require course work in this. Thanks.
Hi Davina - I often hear “I’m not a salesperson.” People are very uncomfortable with being perceived as something they view in a negative way. People are also intimidated by the process - not wanting an uncomfortable quid pro quo or other expectation to denigrate their attempts to build a relationship.
Yet, time and time again, I would see the same people naturally and confidently develop a strong relationship and convert buyers as part of their business activities. It happened when they forgot they were supposed to sell something, and their warmth and enthusiasm for their product or service translated into being helpful to the customer.
I see you as a natural, Davina. You sell yourself with every blog post. The impression your customers/readers get is someone who is authentic, warm, perceptive and wise. Who wouldn’t want to do business with you? You’re a born salesperson and you don’t even realize it! This is a very, very good thing. Thanks.
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There were a number of encyclicals by Popes in the “Latin”/Western/”White”/European/”Roman” Church since the 1500s condemning slavery and also equal treatment for all human beings. They can be found online generally and specifically at fisheaters.com:
Pope Eugene IV: 1431-1447
Sicut Dudum on slavery
Pope Paul III: 1534-1549
Sublimus Dei on slavery
Pope Gregory XVI: 1831-1846
Mirari Vos traditionalism, false “renewal”
In Supremo Apostolatus on slavery
Pope Leo XIII: 1878-1903
Humanum Genus Freemasonry
In Plurimis on slavery
Libertas on liberty
Sapientiae Christianae citizenship
Catholicae Ecclesiae on slavery
Rerum Novarum on Capital and Labor
The Portuguese were always the worst at obeying the Catholic Church on Slavery.
To earlier comment: There were many Catholic priests in the Civil Rights movement (and some in the abolitionist movement in the US and some that were supporters of the North)–one marcher (his blind eye and maybe criminal actions in sexual abuse notwithstanding was Cardinal Law of Boston who marched for Civil RIghts.
In terms of “Slavery”-that was a racial thing and also not insofar as most people were in bad conditions and slave like with “indentured servitude”.
There were attempts at peaceful conversion in the New World (the first and greatest sin of Europeans and members of the Church in the New World was the genocide of the natives and not Slavery or not just Slavery or not just African/Black Slavery) like Vasco de Quiroga and the Jesuit Reducciones (the movie the Mission) just Google Inca in the original Sarabite for an essay by Arturo. Yes, there is much racism that is nuanced and deep in Brazil and Mexico despite intermarriage of races. But compare that to Protestantism (some Dutch-African, Dutch-Indonesian exceptions) but you do not see Anglo or Dutch Mestizo populations–there is just pure racism and separation like in the United States.
Remember, Bartolome de las Casas won the debate and King Charles made new laws and sent people like Vasco de Quiroga–de las Casas made the Church officially recognize the humanity of all people and specifically the “Indians” and the spiritual equality (as no society is equal in power and wealth. There was a debate but it ended quickly. The downside (perhaps uninentionally and he regretted it later) to Bartolome de las Casas protecting the “Indians” is he imported Black slaves from Africa because Indians were dying.
Racism is a sin. Racism is evil. Some racial separation is natural (birds of feather flock together) and there are cultural issues. It is a result of original sin and our flawed and fallen nature. If children of the Catholic Church sin it is not or not necessarily because of something inherent in teaching or culture.
Opus Dei insisted on a mixed race High School in Kenya unheard of at the time.
St. Katherine Drexel who built famous traditionally Black colleges and other institutions was threatened by the KKK and other racists.
Jean Baptiste DuSable was the first settler in Chicago and a Black-French African Catholic.
Yes, of course there was a lot of racism, and backs of Churches, and worse–but there are also nuns who ran excellent schools for Black kids in the south who became lawyers and doctors. There are large Black French African communities in Louisiana that have a lot of pride, culture and autonomy in their race and religion.
Yes, there is also color consciousness and a caste system based on color that is not consistent with human dignity and the equality of the soul. The soul is color blind–it is the body that has a race and physical characterestics that usually accompany a culture–so race and culture are important because we beleive that Jesus is True God and True Man but that God-Man transcends race (neither Greek nor Jew, Male nor Female, Slave nor Greek) and the Church was clear on condemning slavery since the 1500s and the Spanish Crown was very progressive on human rights. Protestantism (the Scottish National Church took almost Nazi like positions in the 20s) were much more racist and eugenists. The Catholic Church in the last 100 years has made a number of schools, hospitals etc for non Catholic Black (American descendants of slaves) people.
It should also be noted that African Blacks selling other African Blacks into slavery was part of the problem and maybe the origin. The Muslims were also part of the slave trade (and still to this day) so it is not a mere Christian/white/Imperial issue. Arabs and Muslims (at least practically as the last sermon of the prophet Mohammad PBH teaches universal brotherhood) but Arabs and Muslims did plenty of slave trading as did other cultures.
I just want to say that there are some factual errors in some of the statements above and we should put this into context.
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