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The Hottest Distance Education Degrees of 2009
Sharpen your skills and take your career in a new direction with the hottest online degree programs of 2009. Earn your degree online and protect your income while you’re getting ready to transition to your new position or waiting for a promotion. (EMAILWIRE.COM, May 22, 2009 ) Dallas, TX May 22, 2009 If you’re ready to go back to college and experience the latest in technology, combined with a flexible learning environment in which you can help determine what learning … Continue reading
Online Courses Can Help You Finish Your College Degree and Get a Better Paying Job
College degrees are as important today as high school diplomas were 30 years ago. Finding a good job in the current job market without a college degree is getting harder. Online courses can help you finish the degree you started years ago. New York, NY May 21, 2009 (EMAILWIRE.COM, May 21, 2009 ) After high school, the majority of people make plans to go on to college and earn an Associate Degree or Bachelor Degree. Sometimes, though, things don’t always … Continue reading
Distance Education Programs Offer Scholarships
Millions of people are currently enrolled in online degree programs, and this number continues to soar. Hardworking adults are realizing they don’t have to quit their jobs and give up their family lives to get a promotion or change careers. Until recently, though, costs for tuition at many distance learning universities were significantly higher than the costs at traditional college campuses. This has begun to change, however. As more universities offer distance education degrees, these schools realize that they have … Continue reading
Earn a Degree Online and Protect your Family's Future
Despite the promises offered by President Obama’s leadership, the economy is looking worse than ever after 116 days of the new administration. Chrysler has filed bankruptcy proceedings, and GM is facing probable bankruptcy as well. For many years, our country’s workforce has depended for stability on the automobile and transportation industry, and it is becoming more obvious than ever that this just isn’t going to continue to be a viable possibility. So what’s going to happen to the tens of … Continue reading
Online Degree Programs: What to do when you’re getting a Hard Sell
Many online degree programs employ high-pressure sales tactics to encourage students to enroll in their degree programs now. Don’t subject yourself to a hard sell – visit www.degree.com to get your own answers to your education questions. (EMAILWIRE.COM, April 16, 2009 ) Online Degree Programs: What to do when you’re getting a Hard Sell Expecting an important phone call, you rush into the room and pick the phone up on the first ring, only to hear the friendly, annoyingly persistent … Continue reading
Earn a College Degree at Home in Less than a Year
Degree Mills flourish for no reason. A legitimate bachelor’s degree can be earned in a year or less. (EMAILWIRE.COM, April 10, 2009 ) Earn a College Degree at Home in Less than a Year Diploma mills. Fake degree scams. They’re everywhere. Legitimate-sounding ‘universities’ that claim to be accredited. They advertise their accreditation by official-sounding organizations – that aren’t recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. With all of these claims circulating, how can you tell if an online degree program … Continue reading
Distance Learning: It Is Older Than You Think!
The most popular approach to distance learning today is the online degree program offered by many online universities. However distance learning started long before the Internet was even a dream. (EMAILWIRE.COM, March 19, 2009 ) If you thought distance learning is a relatively new way to earn a college degree, think again! Online degree programs have only become popular in the last decade or so, but earning a degree by distance learning has been possible for more than 100 years! … Continue reading
Have Online Degree Programs Quashed Scholarship?
One of the hottest debates surrounding the field of education today is how the so-called “data deluge” has affected student scholarship. Some experts argue that the overwhelming flood of information available to scholars and students has caused them to stop thinking in terms of meta-theories, algorithms, models, or even the scientific method. Instead, they think in terms of data bytes and clips of information that help them digest bits and pieces of information. Distance learning degree programs have contributed to this … Continue reading
Teachers: What Online Degree Program will Help your Career?
If you just graduated from a Bachelor Degree program and are beginning your career in teaching, you may get only one or two job offers your first year. Don’t be discouraged, though – you have to start somewhere. Rather than wait another year or two while you finish a Master Degree, take that entry level job and start working on advancing your career. Before you resign yourself to being stuck in a deadend job for years, though, get more information … Continue reading
Distance Learning Degree Programs gain National Recognition
For the first time in three years, an educational organization in the United States has been awarded the coveted Baldridge Award. Three different organizations received this award in 2008, and the North Carolina Iredell Statesville School District (I-SS) was among them. The other two organizations that were so honored including a healthcare business and a food industry giant. The Baldridge Award was developed in 1987. It is given with the intent to honor service and performance excellence, as well as strategic … Continue reading