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5 tips for adults thinking of going back to school

July 10, 2024 Leave a comment

Are you thinking of heading back to school? If so, it wouldn’t just be you and Rodney Dangerfield there. The latest research shows that adults are heading back to college in higher numbers than ever. And with grim projections of employability shortfalls looming in the not-very-distant future, adding some academic feathers to your cap makes more and more sense with every hotly sought-after ... Read More »

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Online Degrees Make for Strong Employees

The Corporate Learning Network is an online community designed to supply training executives with contemporary knowledge and skills. Dr. Joshua Kim, director of Learning and Technology for the Master of Health Care Delivery Science program at Dartmouth College, has written an article for the Network on why online ed grads make great hires. He won’t get an argument here; we’re... Read more →
Blackboard Steps Up to the MOOC Platform

At its Blackboard World event in Las Vegas this week, course-management software company Blackboard—whose products drive numerous online and on-site education platforms—revealed plans to launch its own MOOC platform. The new platform will be free to use for existing Blackboard customers, but, according to this article by Jeffrey R. Young, at the Chronicle of Higher Ed, “there might be a fee if... Read more →
Back to School

A new article by Allie Bidwell at US News & World Report digs into concerns over a massive, education-based employability shortfall less than 10 years from now: As the economy continues to slowly recover and millions of job openings are expected to appear over the next decade, there is a growing call for more educated workers to fill those positions. But the current... Read more →
Online Education: Who, Where and What

Here’s an interesting fistful of facts from a marketing firm (for the record: no connection to the College of Professional Studies) about who is enrolling in online ed programs (and where, and what kind). One very interesting finding: “Most online students enroll in institutions that have a campus/facility within 100 miles of their home.” Looks like “distance learning” might actually be relatively... Read more →
Are You Gonna Eat That?

For some unsettling information on ingredients in your food that have been deemed verboten by other countries, check out this MSN Healthy Living slideshow, 10 things Americans eat that are banned elsewhere. (And if you missed our post about some of the changes in the landscape of the GMO debate, it’s right here.) We’d like to hope that future Master of Science in... Read more →

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