Unless you’ve already had some experience with them, taking online college courses can represent a bit of a learning curve. And though studying online will require some adaptation, here are a few tips and tricks that can help make your transition much smoother. 1. Develop a Sense of Self-Motivation Some of us are just born [...]
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Top 10 Ways to Succeed in Online Education
March 27, 2012
The 25 Best Online Colleges
February 20, 2012
With the increasing popularity of online degree programs, there’s been a huge increase in the number of online colleges and universities. With all the schools to choose from, it’s not easy selecting an online school. The quality of online schools ranges from excellent to poor. We’ve done extensive research on online colleges and universities to [...]
The 10 Best Online MBA Programs
January 24, 2012
Should people get an MBA? According to the 2011 Year-End Poll of Employers provided by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), 74 percent of the employers who responded plan on hiring individuals with an MBA in 2012. The poll received responses from 229 employers at 216 companies worldwide. The GMAC Corporate Recruiters’ Survey 2011 shows [...]
Top 25 Schools for Online Nursing Degrees
December 16, 2011
Nursing is an excellent career choice from many different points of views: Demand in this field is already high, and is expected only to increase in the years ahead. There is a relatively low educational bar for entering the field. For example, the prerequisite for training as a Nurse’s Assistant is a high school diploma [...]
The Very Best Online Nursing Programs
October 26, 2011
Nursing is one of the most attractive professions, especially in these hard economic times. Entry into the field is relatively easy and does not require a four-year college degree. The pay is good, and the potential for advancement is very good, with Registered Nurses (RNs) earning on average nearly $70,000 per year. Best of all, [...]
Why Online Education?
September 29, 2011
Why is it that online education is increasingly the option of choice for many people in search of a college degree? There are, of course, many reasons that one could cite, from fashion to convenience to the need to go on working while you study. But surely economic considerations are the ones that loom largest [...]
Prager University—Some Notes
August 22, 2011
Well-known radio talk-show host and conservative pundit, Dennis Prager, has inaugurated an interesting, if somewhat offbeat, Internet educational experiment. He has assembled a group of like-minded television and radio personalities in order to put together a package of short video lectures on a variety of topics from a conservative political perspective. The videos incorporate high [...]
The Best Online Baseball (and Softball) Hitting Academy
August 22, 2011
Hitting a baseball well is one of the toughest things to do in all of sports. Even otherwise great athletes never master the art. Consider, for instance, Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland A’s and lead character in the upcoming movie Moneyball, who was bigger, stronger, and faster than anyone the year he was [...]
The Best Short Course in Economics
August 19, 2011
At TheBestSchools.org, we treat the concept of “schools” quite broadly. Certainly, we include in the concept secondary and higher education, in which one earns a diploma or degree. But we also include any course of study in which significant learning occurs, even if the time spent is quite short. When it comes to economics, we [...]
Ancient Wisdom and Modern Love
August 12, 2011
“You are the most important event in your parents’ love life.” This is one of the many insights that Professor David O’Connor conveys to his students in his highly popular University of Notre Dame course, “Ancient Wisdom and Modern Love.” This outstanding course is an exploration of the subject of erotic love from a variety of viewpoints, [...]
Educational Management Corporation Lawsuit
August 11, 2011
The ship of online education is navigating some high seas these days. Or, to flirt with mixed metaphors, perhaps it would be more accurate to describe the baby of online education as experiencing growing pains, seeing that the long-term future of this important new educational trend is hardly in doubt. Internet colleges and universities are [...]
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