Archive for September, 2009

Working Moms Benefit from Education Funding

Moms who have been working several jobs to make ends meet might be able to get a reprieve through education funding that has been freed up by the government. President Barack Obama has set aside money for mothers who want to further their education and get a better job to support their families. The money does not have to be paid back, so this is like a dream come true for struggling, working mothers.

Being a mom is hard enough work, but having to support children by going to other jobs makes life a day-to-day struggle, especially when the jobs do not pay well. Going back to school can help in this regard because the income will be higher, and she will most likely just have to work one job so there will be more time to spend at home with the family.

If awarded a scholarship grant, all of the education expenses will be taken care of. Obama wants to see these women going back to school so they can live a better lifestyle and take better care of their children. Moms might shy away from this opportunity because of the time that will be lost in the degree-earning process, but online programs are available, and are convenient to women with busy schedules. If she can give up two to three hours to the program, she should succeed in earning a college degree. She then will become a top candidate for better-paying jobs and the quality of life will definitely improve.

Not only will this opportunity make the mother more confident, but the child will admire her. When it comes time to decide what to do after high school, that child will look back at what mom did and most likely choose more education because of the great life it leads to.

The Benefits Of 21st Century Online Education

The online learning environment has been gaining a lot of following from students, teachers, and career persons, to the average Joe who is looking to for ways to improve. More people are realizing the benefits of online education because it allows mobility, flexibility, and a new set of teaching methods that can’t be introduced through classical education.

Online Education and the Flat Earth

In an ever changing paradigm of wealth management and financial freedom, information dissemination is the key. That is why free online education courses are flattening the world of information sharing and putting motivated people in a level playing field. Internet based education is an effective tool in dispersing the tenets of 21st century education.

The benefits of online education are endless. While the most important feature of this is time and geographical flexibility, it is also the factor that is taken for granted. This allows businessmen to sit down during their low hours and learn. Meanwhile students are given the incentive to apply for home schooling. For highly mobile people like tourists and business travelers, as well as soldiers or any jobs that require global travel, online learning is a friendly tool to keep improving. People who feel that they are stuck in a grueling 9-5 job will finally have an outlet where they can learn. Thus, kind of education puts knowledge and information from the center to every peer students.

Online education is also a “user-friendly” approach to information management. In this way, the student gets to have more leverage to assess the information for him and make his own impressions rather than be forced under a classroom structure set by the faculty. This allows students to feel a sense of accountability because they are encouraged to learn the way they choose.

Online learning does not require students to keep with the current pacing of the course. In this way, faster students who want to go ahead can do so, while students who prefer to study every material carefully without embarrassment can do so. This education puts the onus of interaction to the student instead of an environment moderated by the teacher. Students are therefore more susceptible to interact with the material and with the instructor; In addition to that, the democratic setting allows students and teachers to meet in a less intimidating setup. With this type of learning, camaraderie between students in online forum is emphasized and informal communication makes instructors more approachable.

Online Education and the Student Appeal

This student-centered approach allows students infinite flexibility while encouraging the creation of more convincing online education journals. Thus, we can say that the quality of information improves a lot under the online environment.

One of the many benefits of online education is its availability of education materials. While traditional learning requires the library and endless number of paper readings, this type of education puts the materials online. Thus, everything that is needed to learn is found online. Even better, the range of materials is limited only by the imagination of the instructor or the student. Web based education materials can take the form of journals, videos, podcasts, forum discussions, audio books and e-books. This method is an infinitely more personal and more organized form of 21st century learning.

The value of internet based education today is staggering. It represents a cultural shift and a change in attitude to classical education. Thus, the medium given by the benefits of online education allows revolutionary ideas like 21st century education to be formalized without the need for institutional approval. The internet has broken the classical structure and thankfully more students are seeing it that way. Online education and 21st century education is a perfect marriage indeed.

Best Online Forex Trading Education Program

Jobs are unsecured and lost in current economic environment, we need to equip ourselves with a skill such as forex trading that can help us earn secondary incomes.

Employers can take away our jobs but they cannot take away the forex trading skill which will belong to you once you have master it.

Forex trading is one of the way which we can use to earn secondary incomes. As a matter of fact, in current market environment, I perceive that forex trading is a safer financial instrument than stock investment. Stock market is experiencing a bottomless fall now. As for forex trading, if you have a good system, there are a lot of opportunities in making money now.

If you want to learn a good forex trading system, you may want to take up my Trading Education Service.

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3. Receive market commentary
4. Develop confidence as a trader
5. Unlimited email support for the next 2 months (you will be able to ask me all the questions about trading)
6. Make trading profits

This education program is intentionally designed to last for 2 months. I do not believe a newbie can become a profitable trader overnight. He must be expose to real life trading condition. From my email updates, the student will learn why and when to enter a trade based on real life trading environment.

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“Nothing happens by itself…it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.” – Ben Stein

ARGOSY UNIVERSITY OFFERS EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE

(CHICAGO – September 6, 2005) Argosy University announced today
that it will assist students from universities in New Orleans,
southern Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama universities, which
have been closed for the foreseeable future due to the
devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina.

Argosy University will make available both on-campus and online
courses that might be able to permit dislocated students to
progress in their academic careers during this semester of
disruption. Students at a university forced to close by
Hurricane Katrina may register at any of Argosy University’s 13
campuses across the nation for courses, on a space-available
basis, for the fall terms.

Argosy University will waive tuition for dislocated students
who have already registered and paid tuition at their home
institution for the fall 2005 semester. If dislocated students
have not yet paid their tuition at their home institution, they
will be assessed the lesser of the current published tuition and
fees at the home institution, or Argosy University’s published
tuition and fees, as determined by the Argosy University campus
president.

“Argosy University acted today by offering educational
assistance to college students impacted by Hurricane Katrina,”
says Dr. Gregory O’Brien, president of Argosy University.
“Argosy University is concerned for the well-being of these
students, and this initiative is our way of reaching out with
compassion and benevolence to those affected. We pledge to do
all that we can to assist college students in the Gulf Coast
region to continue their education and continue in their lives.”

According to the American Council on Education, more than 30
colleges and universities in the Gulf Coast region have been
severely damaged by the hurricane, and possibly 100,000 students
have been displaced from their schools.

Argosy University offers doctoral, masters, and undergraduate
degree programs in psychology, counseling, education, business,
information technology, and organizational leadership. Doctoral
degree programs in clinical psychology (accredited by the
American Psychological Association), are available at several
Argosy University’s campuses. Argosy University will assist
dislocated Ph.D. and Psy.D. students on an individual basis.
Select associate’s degree programs in several health sciences
fields are available at Argosy University/Twin Cities, located
in Eagan, MN.

Argosy University has campuses in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas,
Honolulu, Orange County (Santa Ana, CA), Phoenix, San Francisco
Bay Area (Port Richmond, CA), Sarasota, Schaumburg (IL),
Seattle, Tampa, Twin Cities (Eagan, MN), and Washington DC
(Arlington, VA).

Students seeking information about Argosy University’s
initiative can visit the university’s website (www.argosyu.edu)
or call National Admissions Information at 1-800-377-0617.

With 13 campuses across the nation, Argosy University
(www.argosyu.edu) offers undergraduate, graduate, and
postgraduate degrees in the disciplines of business, education,
health sciences, and psychology and behavioral sciences. Argosy
University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and
is a member of the North Central Association (NCA) (30 North
LaSalle Street, Suite 2400, Chicago, IL 60602, 1.312.263.0456,
www.ncahlc.org). The parent company of Argosy University,
Education Management Corporation (www.edmc.com), is among the
largest providers of private post-secondary education in North
America, based on student enrollment and revenue. Student
enrollment exceeded 66,000 as of fall 2004. EDMC has 71 primary
campus locations in 24 states and two Canadian provinces. EDMC’s
education institutions offer a broad range of academic programs
concentrated in the media arts, design, fashion, culinary arts,
behavioral sciences, health sciences, education, information
technology, legal studies, and business fields, culminating in
the award of associate’s through doctoral degrees. EDMC has
provided career-oriented education for over 40 years.
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National Council of Education Research and Training in Vocational Education

National Council of Education Research and Training in Vocational Education

The National Council of Education Research and Training is concerned so far only with the Hr.Secondary Vocationalization programme in formal schools. Its Department of Vocationalization of Education which is in the process of being converted into a Central Institute of Vocational Education is the nodal agency for all aspects relating to curriculum development, staff development, research, evaluation and monitoring and international contacts.

The scope of the Department extends over the entire country but it has only an advisory and guiding role to perform. Having attained sufficient experience and expertise in Hr. Secondary Vocationalization programmes the department is now actively associated with the development of various types of vocational courses for the under-graduate stage of education under the auspices of the University Grants Commission. In relation to the vocational training component under the Ministry of Labour the NCERT is represented on the National Council of Vocational Training which is t he apex decision making and coordinating body for its institutions throughout the country.

In respect of Technical Education Programme, the NCERT is represented in the All India Council of Technical Education, a statutory body to look after technical and management education in the country.

The NCERT is also directly involved with the programme development of the Indira Gandhi National Open University and National Open School through the participation of this author on their appropriate decision making bodies.

Design Development & Materials

The practice component of a vocational course varies from 50 to 70%. The curricula and instructional materials are also developed by the R&D institutions concerned with each sector. For the higher secondary courses, the NCERT prepares exemplar instructional materials and the states also prepare their own instructional packages. The courses developed by NCERT are based on the analysis of job requirements, and have been grouped under a common title of “Competency Based Curriculum”.

Both curricula and instructional materials are developed in workshops in which the employment sector personnel, curriculum experts, subject experts and classroom teachers participate. So far, these materials have been prepared on the basis of annual papers rather than modules or units suited for instruction in a semester system.

The semester system, though accepted in principle for implementation is yet to become a reality in the school sector. However, the NCERT has initiated course organisation in the form of flexible module so as to suit the semester system, and also would lead to the development of multi skill competencies to meet the employment requirements in the rural areas.

All instructional materials, both print and non print, though owned by NCERT are freely available for duplication and dissemination by the states. The copyright permission is invariably granted for this purpose. The higher secondary programmes by design are collaborative in nature. The schools offer theoretical instruction and basics in terms of vocational practice which is followed by on the job training or practical training at the actual work site. In the entire teaching-learning process the full time teachers are supported by a large number of part time instructors and guest lecturers drawn from the respective employment sectors. While the above is the suggested modality, many schools still depend on institutional instruction and training in place of collaboration mentioned above, but, the deployment of part time teachers is almost invariably ensured.

Information collected and compiled from the printmaterial of NCERT