A recent blog post on this site, Bogusia's piece "Why Is Play Important?” emphasized the frequently cited number of 10,000 hours as the minimum amount of time necessary for an individual to obtain a degree of expertise in any given action. Violin lessons, reading, long division, learning Spanish or fielding ground balls are all said to require this same minimum time investment. Bogusia's article emphasized the extent to which play contributes to the accumulation of this time and reminded readers that increments of those 10,000 hours need not be titled "practice," "homework" or "school work" to count toward that total.
If you are searching for the best way to pursue the education you need to reach your educational goals, enhance your job skills, or advance your career, you will be faced with a variety of options. One option for you will be in deciding whether to attend a traditional campus for school, or if you will choose to seek out your education by way of an online institution.
The learning process can sometimes seem overly complicated, especially when different teaching philosophies are used from one type of learning facility—or even one instructor—to the next. Students may feel confused or frustrated without a proper framework and learning process. And with technology being used to help students learn both inside the classroom and to facilitate online learning, students may feel like they’re not connected to their instructors or to the learning materials.
In recent years, the Internet has played a much more prominent role in our daily lives than it has in the past. No longer confined to libraries and research labs, our access to the web and modern technology is now always within reach—whether through mobile phones, iPads and tablets, laptops, or sometimes all three at once. At first, the use of these technological resources in educational settings was widely considered to be a nuisance and a distraction.
Despite all of the advances man has made in science, technology, industrialism and medicine, the method of lecturing as a staple in education hasn't changed since the great Greek philosophers practiced it in 350 B.C. As a result of this glaring dissonance, many experts are questioning why advances in technology aren't being integrated into the classroom when most students have grown up utilizing and learning from such devices.
Getting your student ready for college takes dedication. It means helping them study and encouraging them in their education process. But it goes beyond just making sure that they're academically fit and intellectually mature enough for college. It's important that your student makes an informed decision about how he is accessing post-secondary education and that means examining all his options. Online education has been an excellent alternative for adults that want to fit education into a busy work schedule.
