Finding a good online training program to help further advance your education or career is tempting, especially nowadays, but also potentially tricky and elusive. While the offers are richer than ever and this competition makes the courses offered be better and better, the popularity of such programs also makes way for scams, or simply for getting the wrong picture about a program and only discovering after a while that it isn’t really what you … [Read more...]
To Do This Summer: Online Courses at UCLA
The University of California—Los Angeles doesn’t need much of an introduction, as far as top colleges in the U.S. go. It was founded nearly a century ago, in 1919, enrolls nearly 28,000 students and its current in-state tuition stands at $12,696. According to the yearly U.S. News ranking of American colleges, it’s number 23 in the country, noted mostly for its School of Theater, Film & Television, as well as for its School of Dentistry and … [Read more...]
Applying to UGA: In-Person versus Online Courses
Coming in at number 60, in the U.S. News ranking of American universities, the University of Georgia (known in short as UGA) has a rather longstanding tradition of academic excellence. The century-old school was founded in 1785 and over the 2013-2014 academic year it enrolled over 26,000 students – of which 57 per cent were female. If you’re interested in applying, here are a few fun general facts: UGA was the first public secondary … [Read more...]
10 Benefits of Advanced Defensive Driving Skills
If you’re like most drivers, you probably believe you’re the cat’s pajamas, when it comes to your driving skills. However, the statistics on road safety in the United States, tell a slightly different story: everyday, about one hundred people die on the roads of the U.S. and another six thousand are injured. One solution would be the intensive promotion of advanced and defensive driving courses – but there’s a problem with that, too. Defensive … [Read more...]
Enrolling for Online Courses in South Carolina: The Dos and Don’ts
If you’re from anywhere around South Carolina and you’ve been wondering lately about the possibility of continuing your education online, there are some things you should know first. Wanting to resume your education from where it left off some years back, or wanting to improve it by obtaining a certificate for extra skills related to your line of work are both admirable things, of course, and accomplishing them by online training is indeed the … [Read more...]
What Is the Comparison between Online Training Programs versus Traditional Courses?
In today’s unstable times (on the job market), a continuous self-improvement seems to be mandatory, at least as far as education and new skills are concerned. Indeed, since the competition for jobs is so high, in order to keep up with what the other people who want your job can show, your resume must be forever improved with an extra line about the newest course or training you’ve graduated from. But in spite of the pressure that can derive from … [Read more...]
Why Penn State Is the Best Online School in the U.S.
The OpenCourseWare Consortium says there are few other revolutions more important in the 21st centuries than the revolution of open education. The platform has been promoting open courseware for a long time now and has managed to convince over 200 institutions around the world to adopt this policy. What are its benefits? The OCW advocates three main perks: Providing access to knowledge and the sharing of knowledge in remote corners of the … [Read more...]
What a Calculus Online Course Is Good For and Where to Find One
To quote a famous saying, calculus is about the very large, the very small, and about how things change. Sometimes, certain fixed and number-based disciplines, like mathematics, have a way of becoming almost poetic, and calculus is one domain which perfectly illustrates this tendency. According to its official definition, calculus is the mathematical study of change, just like geometry, for instance, is the mathematical study of shape. A calculus … [Read more...]
Free Online Courses with Certificate: A Resource You Should Exploit More
In today’s ever changing and demanding job and education market, it’s quite clear that in order to succeed everyone should be on a constant look out for new ways of improving their CVs. And it’s not just a matter of making your resume sound good, because outside the world of academic achievement, on the real job market, potential employers are more skill-oriented. In other words, they don’t care that much about one extra little bit of education … [Read more...]
What to Expect from Medical Billing and Coding Online Courses
In the market on online training programs, a recent trend saw a spike in the demand for medical billing and coding online courses. People who seek this kind of education are doing so in the hopes of subsequently finding a job in the field afterwards. Everyone knows the medical industry is both a profitable and rewarding line of work, and attaining a job in a medical billing office can help you enter the field without actually going through the … [Read more...]