Don’t just slink away into the back room and come out, red-eyed and silent, after a few hours of studying. Share bits and pieces of what you’re learning with your friends and family. If you discover something interesting, bring it up at the dinner table or discuss it while driving your kids to school. Let your spouse or friends tag along on field trips to the art museum or city counsel. Chances are they’ll enjoy being involved in this part of your life and you’ll appreciate the chance to share it!

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This recent podcast explored the necessary steps to take for an online institution to obtain and maintain state licensure for online classes.

Dr. Frank McCluskey, VP, Scholar in Residence at APU interviewed Dr. Russell Kitchner who gave insight into how to get licensure in all 50 states. Dr. Kitchner explains that licensure is more about building relationships between the institutions. He also shares a handful of very stringent tasks that some schools have had to follow in order to achieve licensure; like a program by program review, reviewing the university catalog, and checking up on the organizations refund policy.

There are a great many tips in here for schools looking for country-wide licensure, as well as advising on having a dedicated group of people to work on regulation work to maintain the licensure. For more details on this process listen to the podcast below.

One of the unique aspects of online degree education is its focus on interaction and communication to facilitate effective learning. To take full advantage of online classes, you must be an active participant – there’s no sitting in the back, hoping not to be called on. Get in there and engage, discuss and collaborate. Much of the learning that occurs online takes place in the instructor-moderated course discussion boards where students exchange ideas with their peers.

The discussion board acts as a semester long conversation around a topic of interest in the field. A major benefit of online learning is that at the end of the course, a record of the discussion still exists. Students can re-visit ideas and questions that emerged along the way, and even look back at how their own ideas on the course topic evolved over the semester.

Source: AllOnlineSchools