Sunday, June 29, 2008

Get an Online Bachelor Degree - 3 Proven Tips

About a year ago, I dreaded going to work every day. I spent most of my time thinking about what I would rather be doing, counting the hours until it was time to go home. Are you in the same spot? Do you wish you had a better, higher-paying job you were passionate about? Today is the day you need to stand up to your fears and pursue your dream bachelor degree and career!

Why Listen To Me?

As I said earlier, I was in a similar spot about a year ago. My life needed a serious change! I started collecting information and building a strategy to get a bachelor degree online. Now that I've succeeded, I want to help you achieve your dreams! I've outlined the three proven steps I went through not only to get accepted into an online degree program, but also to secure a $15,000 scholarship to help pay for my online bachelor degree. You can do this, too!

A Preview Of The 3 Proven Tips

1) Gather information

Firstly, you need to know yourself; what do you want to do with your life? When you decide on a specific degree path, the goal is to gather as much information as possible. The key is to find online universities that offer the degree program you're looking for. So where is the best place to look? Read on and I'll make it plain as day for you!

2) Find student loans

These days securing student loans is not as easy or as trivial as it was a few years ago. When the economy is in turmoil, it takes extra effort to find money to get your online bachelor degree. This can be a daunting task, but keep reading on and I'll make it extremely easy for you!

3) Find scholarship money

Did you know that there is over $3 billion worth of scholarships available to people like you? In fact, it's possible that you can get your bachelor degree for free! But where is that free money? Keep reading on and I'll help you through every one of these steps. You'll soon be on your way to a better life!

What's The Next Step?

What if I told you that I want to give you all this information absolutely free? You're literally a mouse click away from improving your life! I want to empower you with the information necessary to achieve that better, higher-paying dream career.

If you want to see the exact steps I took to get accepted with a $15,000 scholarship into a degree program, follow me here. You owe it to yourself and it's absolutely free!

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Go Online For Defensive Driving Courses - For Safe Driving, Useful Tips & to Dismiss Traffic Ticket

Defensive Driving course material is occasionally sought out by those who simply wish to become a better driver. More often, it's being assigned to them by a judge or court, or a potential employer who wants their candidate to have taken a safe driving course prior to being handed the keys to the company car.

Luckily, we now live in an era filled with online opportunity. Thanks to the World Wide Web, you can take defensive driving courses online rather than sitting in a traditional classroom environment. Providers of online courses give you the opportunity to work at your own pace and on your own schedule, taking as much or as little of the defensive driving course at each session as you prefer. In old-style classroom courses, you must arrive on time, stay until each break, return and sit at the instructor's bidding, and stay until he or she allows you to leave. And you must do this on a day of their choosing, at a location that is convenient for them, regardless of what is convenient for you.

Working online has other advantages as well. Because the web never closes, you can take your course at 3:00 in the morning if that's when you have a hankering for a safe driving course. Or knock it out in one session, same as you would in a classroom, but begin and end when you choose, rather than waiting for a date to open up at the local traffic school classroom.

When you take an online course, you might be asked to provide information about yourself that will allow the provider to verify your identity. Because you are not there in person to hand them your driver's license, they may ask you things like where you prefer to shop or what sport you like, and then ask these questions periodically throughout the course to check in with you and make sure that you're still the one taking the course.

At the end of the course, you will be required to take and pass a standardized final exam to ensure that you have mastered the material. Once you pass this exam, you are generally free to go about your business until the mail arrives containing your certificate of completion. You then bring this to whoever requested that you take the course, such as the court who assigned the citation or the employer who is awaiting your certification.

In all, taking traffic school does not need to be a negative experience, even when it has been assigned to you as a punishment for violating a traffic law. Online courses can be interesting and engaging, as well as practical for use in your everyday life after you have completed the class. For instance, it is not standard to inform every driver when a law changes, but if you've taken a defensive driving class recently, you're more up to speed than your neighbor and can avoid violating a regulation and ending up in traffic school again.

Evan,

Expert author on "Defensive Driving Courses". These Online courses confirm your state requirement of traffic school, defensive driving or driver improvement. For more details please visit Online Defensive Driving

Wednesday, June 04, 2008

What's Being Sold In Distance Learning?

In an increasingly competitive market, many are seeking to enhance their business skills and acumen with further qualifications; a viable option since an array of business and marketing degrees are now offered online. Learning providers are adapting and becoming more flexible to meet the needs of those working full-time.

Those who are successful in business and management know their products; they know how and why the commodity that they promote is the best. So, with the growth of online business degree courses and distance learning comes the need to ask questions. What are the benefits to potential students? How are the providers in universities and higher education using learning methods and philosophies to meet the needs of those undertaking an online degree? After all, as those in the business world know, these questions should be asked, and a good product should sell itself with the benefits clear to understand.

Most online management or marketing courses will be structured around a series of what are known as e-tivities. These should be engaging and purposeful, structured through a careful choice of activities and undertaken through participative group work online. It might feel daunting, for many, to face the prospect of learning in isolation. However, this will rarely be the case as one of the key benefits is that each course unit will be designed and facilitated by an e-moderator, who usually teaches terrestrially in the university or college offering the course. In order to effectively deliver the online element, this tutor will have no room for anecdotal stories or waffle, which whilst sometimes fascinating, rarely 'deliver the goods' that students have paid for. Distance learning is forcing course providers to tighten up their act and be clear and concise in the learning outcomes offered by a course.

Moreover, e-tivities help to build communities of best practice and skill sharing amongst the participants. In a virtual classroom everyone gets to contribute. So, if you know that you are the kind of student who might be reluctant to vocalise their ideas in a classroom scenario, this opens up many possibilities. Similarly, these distance-learning communities prevent the person with the loudest voice from dominating the learning environment.

Another distinct advantage of studying for a business degree online is that the course providers are fully aware that the better designed the e-tivities, the easier they will be to e-moderate. As a result, those delivering the courses must ensure they provide structured units, with a focused and easily identifiable learning outcome. What this means for potential students is that they are able to access current, cutting edge elements of a topic in the most concise, achievable way. This will place them in the best possible position during the structured 'learning' modules of their online degree to absorb new information and succeed in the more individual aspects of course requirements.

In many ways, the students undertaking online degrees are the real winners. Alongside the obvious flexibility of earning a wage and prioritizing their own time-management, they can also be sure that what they study is contemporary and designed to ensure that 'real' learning takes place.

Sarah Maple is taking marketing courses and is about to get her distance learning - online degree soon.