Through summer online courses, high schoolers can tackle advanced subjects, prepare for college entrance exams and retake classes.
Students looking for online help preparing for the SAT and ACT can use free online practice exams and video tutorials whenever their summer schedule allows.
Kim Davie remembers her reaction when her mom suggested she and twin sister Shayla enroll in a summer online course after their freshman year.
"I wasn't all for it," she says sheepishly.
A year later, though, both Houston-area high schoolers are willingly returning for another summer with the International Connections Academy to get a head start on next fall's course material. Shayla will take statistics after enrolling in Algebra 2 a year ago. Kimberly will study physics after last year's geometry course. Both expect a similar summer as last year, when they still had time for cheerleading camp, fitness camp and a vacation to Mexico.
"You could still work the class into your schedule," Kim says. "Any free time you had, you could use it."
Whether the goal is getting a head start like the Davie sisters, tackling advanced subjects, preparing for college entrance exams or even retaking difficult classes, summer provides an unique opportunity forcollege-bound high schoolers to use online learning options.
"You might be traveling or you might be doing a summer enrichment program, things like that," says Michael Boothroyd, Kaplan Test Prep's executive director of SAT and ACT programs. "So online programs obviously travel with you."
And students have plenty of choices. Of the 75 percent of school districts nationwide which offer some sort of online or blended courses, the vast majority do so during the summer months, says Susan Patrick, president and CEO of the International Association for K-12 Online Learning. Then there are more than two dozen states with statewide virtual schools, programs run by private companies like Connections, and a stable of traditional college test-prep companies like Kaplan that have moved their services online.
"I think it's really important for students to determine the goal of why they want to enroll in a summer school class," Patrick says. Students considering an online course should also find out what the cost may be – even some public school systems charge a fee – as well as the format of a given course and an instructor's involvement, she says.
Class format can vary quite widely, and in some cases could conflict with other summer plans.
With the International Connections Academy, the Davies sisters estimate they spend two hours a day studying. But at programs designed specifically for high-performing or gifted students, like theAccelerated Summer Option through Northwestern University's Center for Talent Development, students can spend as much as six hours a day on compact nine-week honors and Advanced Placement courses.
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Eric Calvert, the Center for Talent Development's associate director, says the program generally isn't a good fit for students looking to wedge summer learning into the margins of a busy schedule that may include vacations, camps or other enrichment opportunities. That's not often an issue, though, because such programs typically draw enthused students who have prioritized the program, Calvert says.
Conversely, students looking for online help preparing for the SAT and ACT may not even choose to enroll in a class, but rather use free online practice exams and video tutorials at their disposal whenever their summer schedule allows. taken by/usnews.com
By forming online learning institutes and collecting data about student progress, programs hope to improve virtual learning.
The University of Phoenix and DeVry University have implemented systems that run an analysis to look for troubling patterns in a student's progress.
For many online students, the flexibility of an online degree or certification program outweighs the possibility of a less immersive student experience.
But without having to physically walk into a classroom, an adviser’s office or a study session, experts say students who are struggling to keep up or stay interested in course work are sometimes more difficult to recognize and easier to ignore.
As a result, some programs are using innovative methods to foster an online educational experience that is more supportive, engaging, and responsive to student demands.
Among those tactics are the use of big, integrated data and analytics to help identify and supportstruggling students, the creation of research bodies devoted to studying online learning methods, and the development of collaborative relationships with virtual student clubs and associations.
[Learn about the debate over graduation rates for online students.]
Big Data
In an online environment, a professor may not know if a student is dropping out of courses, turning her assignments in at the last possible moment or not engaging directly with online course materials.
At the University of Phoenix and DeVry University, that's where integrated data systems come in.
Within the last two years, both for-profit institutions have implemented systems that unify data from all points across a student's online experience, run an analysis to look for troubling patterns in that student's progress and potentially alert an academic adviser if danger signs are seen.
"The system looks at everything," says Constance St. Germain, the executive dean of the University of Phoenix's colleges of humanities and sciences and social sciences. "It looks at what they're accessing in terms of textbooks. Are they posting in the classroom? How are they responding to fellow peers? Are they submitting assignments late?"
The University of Phoenix implemented its integrated data system about 18 months ago, officials said. DeVry University piloted its system last summer, and then applied it across the institution's online division this March, says vice president of operations Earl Frischkorn.
"It's data that we have naturally in the course of working with the students inside the institution," says Frischkorn, whose school is also in a data research partnership with Stanford University. "It's just that we're putting it together, and we have a little better sense of the student's situation."
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Frischkorn says it will take at least a few academic cycles before any judgments can be made on current systems' effectiveness, noting that it's one thing to identify whether a student is at risk, and another entirely to identify why, let alone solve the problem.
Further, just because a student is identified doesn't mean he or she will welcome assistance.
"You can't force anybody to get help that they don't want," St. Germain says. "The only thing you can do is make sure to reach out, to show that you care. Believe it or not, a lot of times, students just want the question, 'Is everything OK?'"
Research Centers
The University of Florida's Online Learning Institute may be in the nascent stages of its development, but its research interests show a strong focus on issues surrounding student engagement. taken by/usnews.com
The new entrants admitted to nearly all ranked programs are predominantly adults aged 25 and older who have some credit already applied toward their degrees. Consequently, the factors U.S. News selected to make comparisons between programs were not measures like high school class rank or standardized test scores. Instead, U.S. News chose factors that weigh how these programs are being delivered and their effectiveness at awarding affordable degrees in a reasonable amount of time.
U.S. News assessed schools based on four general categories. Here is a look at each category and its weight in the current rankings formula. All are unchanged from 2014.
• Student engagement (40 percent): Quality bachelor's degree programs promote participation in courses, allowing students opportunities to readily interact with their instructors and classmates, as is possible in a campus-based setting. In turn, instructors not only are accessible and responsive, but they also are tasked with helping to create an experience rewarding enough that students stay enrolled and complete their degrees in a reasonable amount of time.
• Faculty credentials and training (20 percent): Strong online programs employ instructors with academic credentials that mirror those of instructors for campus-based programs, and they have the resources to train these instructors on how to teach distance learners.
• Peer reputation (20 percent): A survey of high-ranking academic officials helps account for intangible factors affecting program quality that are not captured by statistics. Also, degrees from programs that are well respected by academics may be held in higher regard among employers.
• Student services and technology (20 percent): Programs that incorporate diverse online learning technologies allow greater flexibility for students to take classes from a distance. Outside of classes, strong support structures provide learning assistance, career guidance and financial aid resources commensurate with quality campus-based programs.
How the Rankings Were Calculated
U.S. News selects factors, known as ranking indicators, to assess each program in the categories outlined above. A program's score for each ranking indicator is calculated using data that the program reported to U.S. News in a statistical survey. The value for each ranking indicator is standardized about its mean to account for statistical variance.
U.S. News multiplies these standardized values by weights it has selected for the ranking indicators and then sums these values to compute the five separate category scores. Each of these category scores is rescaled for display purposes on usnews.com so that the top-scoring school receives a display score of 100 and the bottom-scoring school receives a display score of zero.
To produce the overall scores, U.S. News takes the raw category scores before they have been rescaled and multiplies them by the category weights detailed above. The resulting scores are then rescaled from zero to 100.
Numerical rankings are assigned to programs in descending order of their overall scores, with the highest-scoring program ranked No. 1. Schools with tied scores are tied in the rankings.
Programs whose overall scores are in the bottom 25 percent are categorized as Rank Not Published. U.S. News calculates numerical ranks for these schools but does not publish them.
For the 2015 rankings, 10 schools are designated as unranked because they reported having fewer than 10 students enrolled or because their programs were less than a year old at the time of data collection. U.S. News did not calculate a numerical rank for these schools.
All unranked and Rank Not Published programs are still listed in the searchable directory.
Data Collection
Gathering the information necessary to create the 2015 Best Online Bachelor's Programs rankings required two steps. Step one was compiling a list of schools offering bachelor's degree programs online. Step two was collecting data from these schools.
To complete step one, U.S. News sent statistical questionnaires to regionally accredited public, private and for-profit institutions granting bachelor's degrees. Respondents were asked if they would be offering a bachelor's degree program through Internet-based distance education courses in the 2014-2015 academic year.
U.S. News defines a distance education program as follows (along the same lines as the U.S. Department of Education's definition):
A program for which all the required course work for program completion is able to be completed via distance education courses that incorporate Internet-based learning technologies. Distance education courses are courses that deliver instruction to students who are separated from the instructor and support regular and substantive interaction between the students and the instructor synchronously or asynchronously. Note: Requirements for coming to campus for orientation, testing or academic support services do not exclude a program from being classified as an online bachelor's degree program.
Between the start of data collection in July 2014 and the September 2014 closing date, 296 schools, or 17 percent of schools surveyed, said they would be offering online bachelor's degree programs in accordance with the definition, while the rest either said they would not or chose not to respond. This count is up from 283 the previous year.
To complete step two, U.S. News used the same questionnaire to collect additional statistical information from the 296 schools with online programs. This information was scored as outlined in the table below. (Note: All student and faculty statistical data are for the July 1, 2013, to June 30, 2014, cohorts, while the remaining data reflect policies, services and technologies in place at the time of the questionnaire completion in summer 2014.) taken by/usnews.com
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Women are delicate by nature, which is why many of us tend to take everything personally. It’s hard not to take things personally, but if you don’t break this habit, then you’re going to live a miserable life full of worries and health issues. Most of the stuff we hear about ourselves is exaggerated and taken personally while it`s only the waste of our precious time and limited energy that can be spend on something really important. Here are things you should never take personally in order to live a more peaceful life:
1. Someone pushing in front of you in a queue
If someone pushes in front of you in a queue, it really annoys but you still shouldn`t take it personally. It`s not the reason to get nervous and start screaming like a child. That person is just intolerant and ill-mannered. Be wiser and act like a grown-up woman. There’s no sense in fighting with someone you don’t know and hopefully never meet again.
2. Traffic jams
Almost all people lose their temper because of traffic jams when they have a lack of time or are simply tired of waiting. Well, it’s frustrating and annoying but worrying about it is senseless. Do you really think that the traffic jam has been arranged to cause you troubles? Stay calm and find some activities to do instead of worrying. Turn on your favorite music, listen to some inspiring and positive podcasts, or learn a foreign language, it always helps me to relax when I`m stuck on the road.
3. Negative online comments
If you spend a lot of time online, you probably know how it’s difficult to deal with negative comments. Why should you worry about the opinion of someone you don`t even know? Don’t feel down when you suddenly find out that someone doesn`t agree with you. Everyone has their own point of view so taking it personally is a quick way to go mad. Let others think what they want, and keep following your own thoughts.
4. Your meal isn`t appreciated
If you cook for someone, you expect to be praised for your creation. When it doesn`t happen you may feel bad about it but you don`t need to take it personally. Remember that tastes differ and so it’s okay when your partner tells you that he doesn’t like your dessert, for example. Ask him to cook for you instead – just be honest if his dessert will be tastier than yours.
5. Someone looks at you
If someone stares at you, it doesn’t mean that something’s wrong with you. I used to pay attention to those looks and I always thought that people laughed at my appearance or strange behavior. It lasted until I once noticed that the guy I looked at started to get nervous. I was smiling because of my high spirit and unintentionally I touched him with my look. Then I realized that he might have thought I was laughing at him. Taking someone`s stares personally is silly and even selfish. Why do you think you deserve their attention at all? Those people may be looking at something behind you or simply laughing at the subject of their talk.
6. Customers` rage
If your job requires you to deal with customers, oftentimes you can face dissatisfied ones. Keep in mind that if they get angry and even scream at you, they`re not contented with your company but not with you. You should better try to smooth the conflict instead of taking those arguments personally . Let your work stay at work and never bring that stress to your home.
7. You didn`t get the job
It`s a tough challenge, of course, and it`s often hard to move on after you haven`t got the job you want. But it happens because the employers have to make a difficult choice. They must choose only one person and if you don`t get the job it doesn`t mean you`re bad. It`s life and you should be able to accept the challenges it gives you. It may be beneficial for you as you can find even a better job in future.
Taking everything personally is surely a terrible habit that takes our time and sometimes even causes a long-term depression. In fact we often misunderstand something and suppose that someone wants to hurt us when it`s not so indeed. My advice for you is to ignore everything that prevents you from reaching your goals. When you stop caring about those trifles, it`ll be easier to think clearly and you`ll keep being positive in all your actions and thoughts. What things do you usually take personally?
Jennifer Lesley Ellison (born 30 May 1983) is an English actress, glamour model, television personality, dancer and singer. Ellison is perhaps best known for playing Emily Shadwick in the television soap opera Brookside until 2003, and as Meg Giry in the 2004 film adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera.
Born in Liverpool, the oldest of four children born to Karen (née Sullivan) and Geoffrey Thomas Clancy, Clancy formed girl bandGenie Queen, who were managed by Andy McCluskey from Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD).
The London School of Economics and Political Science has kept its position as second in the world for social sciences, according to the latest global university league table.
The QS World University Rankings has, for the second year running, ranked LSE ahead of Oxford and Cambridge and just behind Harvard in its ‘social sciences and management faculty area’.
The latest overall rankings also rated LSE as the sixth best university in the world for employer reputation and seventh for the size of its international student body.
The specific subject rankings placed LSE as second in the world for geography and communications and media studies, and third for politics, economics and accounting and finance.
Commenting on the results, Professor Craig Calhoun, Director of LSE said:
“It is great that LSE continues to be recognised as a truly world-class social science institution, highly esteemed by academics, students and employers alike.
Regardless of league table results, LSE will continue to do what it does best: produce excellent teaching and research that focuses on real-world problems.”
The School was also ranked at joint 71st in the overall table. Although QS recognise the difficulty of comparing specialised universities like LSE with those that cover a wider range of fields, the methodology of the overall ranking tends to favour institutions with large science, engineering and medicine departments.
The full 2014/15 rankings are available at http://www.topuniversities.com/
Nature is full of fruits, vegetables and nuts that come with powerful detoxifying properties. You don’t need to touch another detox supplement if you allow these ingredients in your diet each day. With the right recipes, you won’t need to worry about depressing taste or calories. The detox smoothies on this list are both delicious and great for your waistline.
If you don’t know a lot about raspberries, a bright pink raspberry cherry smoothie may not seem like a serious detox idea. Raspberries, though, help your body produce plenty of detoxifying enzymes. You need fresh or frozen raspberries and cherries, and almond milk for this smoothie. Blend these ingredients with honey, fresh ginger, flaxseed and lemon juice to have a great detoxifier that’s only 112 calories.
1. Raspberry cherry smoothie
If you don’t know a lot about raspberries, a bright pink raspberry cherry smoothie may not seem like a serious detox idea. Raspberries, though, help your body produce plenty of detoxifying enzymes. You need fresh or frozen raspberries and cherries, and almond milk for this smoothie. Blend these ingredients with honey, fresh ginger, flaxseed and lemon juice to have a great detoxifier that’s only 112 calories.
An Introduction to Natural Healing
As with most ancient healing technique, reiki is performed without using any tools or instruments. You only need your hands to heal a specific body part.
This healing method is based on the idea that the life force flows through the body. If a specific body part is damaged, the life force is blocked. By performing reiki healing, it improves well-being and even restores the body to full health. Reiki isn’t strictly used to heal the body, it’s also used to treat emotional or mental problems.
Reiki healing is easy to master. Once you learn the basics, you can use the technique to heal yourself and others. It also works in conjunction with other medical or therapeutic methods to promote better health and speed up recovery.
The Intention to Heal
Reiki is centered on self-healing. The simplest, most basic way to perform healing is to place your hand on the affected area. Placing your hand on areas you want to heal helps the reiki energy to flow freely. It’s important to let reiki flow at the beginning of a treatment.
Start by putting your hands into the classic “Namaste” position, bow gently with your hands at the heart. Close your eyes and ask for the reiki to flow through your body.
Then, raise your hand above your head. Keep the palms up. Visualize the life force energy flowing from the heavens and into you. Once you’re done visualizing, place your hand on the area you want to heal. Silently ask reiki to heal the area. This ritual is all about surrendering yourself to Reiki to guide you to heal yourself and others.
Performing Self-Healing
The most basic of self-healing hand position starts by overlapping the hands on top of the head. Put one hand on the forehead and the other at the back of the head, just above the base of the skull. Rest your hands on the eyes then, the ears. Put on hand on the upper chest then the other on the solar plexus. Put the hands on the hip area too.
Each time you place your hands on specific body parts, relax and maintain the position for at least two minutes. Repeat the positions until you’ve mastered the basics. Reiki healing is always watched over by the Divine. You have to trust your inner guidance in order to reap the health benefits of reiki.
Healing Others
Once you’ve mastered the positions for self-healing, you can move on to healing others. The positions remain the same. The life force will do all the healing for you. All you need to do is to trust your inner guidance and surrender yourself to the Divine for healing.
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Rebounding exercise – more popularly known as rebounding – refers to a low-impact workout that uses a mini-trampoline or any type of “rebounder.” The main concept of rebounding is bouncing up and down to improve posture, strengthen muscles and tendons as well as to achieve a healthy body. Rebounding is comprised of three types: Health, Strength and Aerobic Bounce.
Health Bounce: This workout requires gentle bouncing up and down without the feet leaving the mat. This workout drains the lymphatic system and strengthens the joints.
Strength Bounce: this workout requires jumping as high as you can on a trampoline. The movement strengthens the muscles and improves balance.
Aerobic Bounce: Performing jumping jacks, jogging in place or bouncing on one leg after another helps keep the heart rate up, improves balance and posture. It also burns a lot of calories.
Benefits of Rebound Exercises
Detoxify the Lymphatic System
The lymphatic system collects toxins that harm the body. To minimize risks, the lymphatic glands have to be drained. Usually, the system relies on body movement to drain the lymphatic nodes. Bounding up and down helps eliminate toxins in the lymphatic system. The movement forces harmful compounds out of the body. The toxins are then eliminated safely as waste.
Improves Bones and Joint Health
Because rebounding exercises are low-impact, they are kinder to the bones and joints. They are virtually painless, even those who suffer from gout or rheumatism can perform rebounding exercises with no trouble at all. Rebounding also promotes the re-mineralizing of the bones. This process keeps the bones denser, stronger and thicker. Rebounding is also kind on the tendons, ligaments and joints too!
Gradual Weight Loss
Bouncing on a mini-trampoline torches a lot of calories. When you pick up the pace, the breathing gets deeper, the heart starts pumping harder. This workout keeps the heart healthy while promoting safe, gradual weight loss. It also boosts the metabolic rate and encourages fat loss!
Improves Posture and Balance
Slouching causes damage to the spine. Rebounding exercises help correct misaligned spine, it improves posture and boosts balance too. When you bounce up and down, the abdominal muscles are activated. This forces the body to stand straighter to maintain the natural curve of the spine. And when you are not hunched over, you look taller, slimmer!
Protects from Cardiovascular Disease
Rebounding training is an excellent workout for the heart. It promotes deeper breathing, improves blood circulation and decreases edema. It can lower blood pressure and keep the heart healthy too. Rebounding also minimizes the pooling of blood in the veins.
Rebounding Exercises: How to Get Started
Start by getting a rebounder, like a mini-trampoline. Wear comfortable clothing, clothes that won’t keep you from moving around.
Step on the rebounder and start by bouncing without letting the feet leave the surface of the trampoline. Gradually pick up the pace. Establish a moderate pace until breathing becomes heavier and heart rate starts picking up too. Next, start bouncing by bending the knees. From here, you can create a customized fitness routine. You can incorporate energetic music and jumping jacks, etc. You can also follow rebounding workout online to burn off more fat.
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As he neared the end of his Grand Canyon University premed degree program,James Prigge realized his heart wasn’t in doing the required testing and interviews for medical school applications.
Prigge felt called elsewhere, so the former resident adviser decided to stay put. He applied for jobs at GCU, earned a position as an enrollment counselor and began taking courses in the University’s master’s program in public health earlier this spring.
Prigge, 24, who helps Colangelo College of Business online students, is an example of the type of GCU-educated, entry-level, full-time employees the University wants to produce. After hiring 67 graduates in 2014, the University so far this year has hired 28 recent grads for a range of positions in Academic Web Services, Facilities, Ground Admissions, Information Technology, Office of Academic Records, Online Operations, Residence Life, Strategic Educational Alliances and the Qualifying Center, according to the talent acquisition group in the Human Resources Department.
For many new hires, their first full-time jobs are entry points into a university where the possibilities for future jobs are plentiful due to the rapid pace at which GCU is growing.
“I never thought I’d sit at a cubicle, but the way this job is going now, and it’s going great — I might be here forever,” said Prigge, who works in the Peoria office complex.
He enjoys speaking with students and helping them navigate their degree requirements. He’s recommended several friends for jobs at GCU, and those friends have recommended others.
Prigge, who recently was promoted, said he dreams about someday opening a hospital overseas, and feels connected to his alma mater and its mission to improve the lives of students and the community.
“Here and at the other campuses, there’s always change with different jobs opening or new jobs they’re creating,” he said. “I hope I can work my way up here. I like it — it keeps changing, keeps me on my toes.”
GCU Career Services Director Jacqueline Smith said her office’s partnership with the HR talent acquisition group has helped the University plug its best and brightest into meaningful jobs. Each March, the departments work together to host the GCU Wants to Hire You job fair, giving students plenty of employment options.
Many of the new hires are former student workers who are familiar with University culture. They have established relationships with faculty and staff, and can comfortably perform their entry-level duties, while gaining experience to earn a position in a field that more closely aligns with their degrees or passion.
“They’re part of a growing, very progressive company,” Smith said. “We’re not the status quo … where you might start isn’t going to be where you finish. Hiring managers really focus on that, getting students into their gifting area.”
Like Prigge, recent psychology graduate Lily Schwartz, 22, saw the opportunity to work for her alma mater while pursuing a master’s degree in industrial and organizational psychology.
Smith hired Schwartz and alumna Sara Lynch about a year ago to work in Career Services after learning that both had earned high commendations from previous supervisors. Schwartz, who was a manager at McDonald’s before and during college, also worked at the Student Contact Center and as a tour guide at the Antelope Reception Center. She told her supervisors she wanted a position in which she could make a greater impact in the lives of her fellow Lopes.
“I definitely let it be known what I was interested in,” said Schwartz, who helps GCU’s student workers with their assignments. “But I always made sure I was working really hard and acting in a professional manner.”
Her job is preparing her for a career in which she can continue to care for others and help them navigate their own careers, she said.
“What’s important, and we talk about this in our orientations, is it’s not just a student worker position or an entry-level position,” Schwartz said. “There’s no position too little, or that’s preventing you from gaining valuable experience. You’re still networking, gaining that experience and developing skills.
“It’s important for students to know when they’re in a position, that it’s a stepping stone.
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Travis Jordan Fischer is accelerating toward his dream of professional IndyCar racing, and Grand Canyon University is providing the track to get him there.
Fischer, 21, who goes by “T.J.,” enrolled as a GCU online student last year to continue his education and racing career. He won three national race championships in 2013 while at Pacific Lutheran University in Washington but nearly stopped racing when he earned a spot in the Protyre Formula Renault Championship last March in England. A traditional education at PLU made driving in Europe nearly impossible and would have forced him to choose between college and racing, but then a friend turned him on to GCU’s flexible online program, which allowed him to chase both passions.
Working on studying with his racing schedule helped Fischer climb the IndyCar ladder in his first year in Europe. He ended the 2014 series with a sixth-place overall finish and moved up to the Formula Renault 2.0 ALPS Series this year. He will compete in seven races in five countries across Europe through October.
Fischer is succeeding in the classroom, too — he has a 3.5 GPA even though he is eight hours ahead of his classes. The junior business management major credits GCU for his rapid academic and racing ascension.
“It’s easy to forget about education to focus on your racing career, and then you’re 25 and haven’t taken a single college course. I didn’t want that,” said Fischer, a native of Vacaville, Calif., who grew up racing go-karts.
“From the moment I got in the seat of a cart, I knew I wanted a driving career and a college education. It’s not possible without GCU.”
An education that fits
Like Fischer, more than 55,000 GCU online students across the U.S. and in several countries are able to fit college into their busy lives.
GCU’s online platform allows students to work and learn at their own pace, and online students receive the same quality education as their traditional counterparts. The University employs nearly 200 online full-time faculty members, which differentiates it from other universities.
Instructors also are dedicated to driving students’ success. Students can contact instructors six days a week by email, phone or through online forums. Instructors are required to reply to questions within 24 hours and post assignment grades in four days. Adjuncts, who teach a majority of entry-level courses, must post grades within a week. Instructors also frequently contact students before a class starts and during class to answer questions.
Fischer works with his teachers to account for the time difference and notifies them if race times interfere with assignment deadlines. Contacting his professors from Austria or Spain is just as easy as from California, he said.
Gary Almy, a Colangelo College of Business online full-time instructor who works in GCU’s Tempe office and is a ground adjunct professor, has worked with international students and said the program is designed to fit their needs.
Almy works with other instructors in Tempe, who all share best practices and tips. Almy, like all instructors, posts tutorials and guides in different modalities to help students of various learning preferences study on their schedules.
Evening Degree Programs
In response to our students' diverse needs, Grand Canyon University is now offering selected degree programs in an evening format. These programs are designed to meet the requirements of today's working adults as they balance their work and personal lives with the desire to earn a degree. With programs that meet just one evening per week, students can conveniently integrate advancing their education with maintaining their career.
Many programs will be offered on the GCU's main campus, located in the heart of Phoenix, Arizona. Some specialized programs may be offered at strategic off-site or satellite locations through the greater Phoenix metro area as well as other areas.
Developed specifically for working professionals, these evening programs are designed for a specific number of students. By keeping classes small, students will receive individual attention and progress through the program with the same classmates, providing an opportunity to forge relationships that go beyond the classroom.
An Online Education Built Around Your Goals
Grand Canyon University believes the pursuit of higher education should be a unique journey for each of us. That is why you can choose from more than 100 academic programs online spanning eight colleges designed to help you achieve your dreams. You'll earn an online education from any location you choose, day or night, around your schedule.
Whether you aspire toward becoming a business executive, an entrepreneur focused on growth and sales, a leader within nursing and health care, or are ready to embrace the highest level of learning with a PhD or EdD, GCU can help you find your purpose in your career and life.
Bridge concepts with real-world application and develop close relationships with peers as you pursue your own path toward success. With many 4-credit classes, you can take one course at a time to help maintain an important work-life balance and achieve a more in-depth understanding from our full-time, fully-trained faculty. Personal and professional values and ethics are emphasized throughout your journey within the context of a Christian
Whether you aspire toward becoming a business executive, an entrepreneur focused on growth and sales, a leader within nursing and health care, or are ready to embrace the highest level of learning with a PhD or EdD, GCU can help you find your purpose in your career and life.
Bridge concepts with real-world application and develop close relationships with peers as you pursue your own path toward success. With many 4-credit classes, you can take one course at a time to help maintain an important work-life balance and achieve a more in-depth understanding from our full-time, fully-trained faculty. Personal and professional values and ethics are emphasized throughout your journey within the context of a Christian
Online Degree Benefits
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Recent years have seen a surge in the number of international studentswanting tostudy in Germany. One of the reasons for this is the solid reputation of German universities, but additional appeal certainly comes from the fact that Germany is one of few countries to offer free education at undergraduate level, for both domestic and international students.
However, if you can’t speak any German, gaining entry to public universities in Germany can be difficult. Most programs are taught in German and require proof of proficiency in the German language. What if you can’t speak German and still want to study in Germany? The good news is that there are opportunities tostudy in Germany in English, with a growing selection ofEnglish-language programs designed for international students.
English-language programs are already fairly common at master’s level, particularly within the social sciences and business-related subjects. They’re now also becoming a more widely available option for undergraduates – so with a bit of patience and research, you too might get the chance to study in Germany in English.
How to study in Germany in English…
International students who do not sprechen sie Deutschemay find it hard to gather the right information on how to study in Germany in English, particularly at undergraduate level. Although many students attracted to study in Germany are motivated by the free tuition, finding reputable free English-language programs at public universities is not easy. This is because the majority of undergraduate courses at German universities are taught in German.Despite this, if you are not limited to free degrees, there are many options for international undergraduates within private institutions. While tuition fees are charged at these private schools, they can still be markedly cheaper than the average price of international courses elsewhere in the world. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) for instance, offers a bachelor’s program in mechanical engineering taught in English, at a price of €7,000 (US$7,900) per semester (two semesters per year), whileESCP Europe offers the chance to study in the capital cities of three countries (London, Paris/Madrid and Berlin) on its Bachelor in Management program for €12,500 (US$13,950) per year. ESCP Europe also offers graduate programs taught in English across all five of its European campuses (based in Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris and Turin), including the Master in Management and the Master in European Business programs.