Technology Engineering

There are so many ways to get a solid education today, and Distance Learning Schools offer the most convenient and easy way to begin. Online and distance learning lets you determine when and where you spend your time studying. If you are a busy parent with a job, online schools offer the most advantageous method of spurring your career and getting ahead of the game.There are no limits to what you can study, and no obstacles to getting your degree when it comes to distance learning. Online courses allow you to study liberal arts and humanities, graphic design, writing, communications, business, marketing, finance, accounting, information technology, Web design, computer networking systems, education, nursing, psychology, counseling, health administration, human services, sciences, engineering, mathematics, social sciences, criminal justice, law, public administration, political science, and much more through distance learning programs. Even aviation and trades can be found in distance learning programs.You can earn diplomas, certificates, and associate, bachelor, master, and doctorate online degrees through distance learning venues, and you can advance your master degree with online graduate certificate programs. Whatever is the cherry on your sundae, your options are unlimited in distance learning programs.When researching online colleges, look for solid accreditation credentials ... [more..]

Have you ever noticed that when you sit behind the steering wheel of your car you automatically insert the ignition key? Did you at any time stop and tell yourself to insert the key? NO! You did it without thinking about it, almost automatically! You know that when you have to drive your car you need to first insert the key. This is the stimulus and your nervous system responds by performing the action. Repeatedly performing an action to a stimulus conditions the mind to do the same action whenever that stimulus occurs and the action becomes a habit. Good habits and bad habits make up our personality.For a long time now sociologists and psychologists have studied bad habits as a social behavior. They have tried to analyze and find out why wrong habits are acquired and the methods by which they can be overcome. A Russian psychologist Pavlov, in1903 propounded the theory that by "conditioned reflex" bad habits can be overcome. He described it as the process in which the brain associated a certain action to a stimulus for a period of time and continued to react in the same way even when the stimuli no longer existed.Do you ... [more..]

You spend an hour at study, then fifteen minutes at a "break," another hour at your work, another break, and another hour of study, you will have learned more, and memory of the learning will last longer, than if you spend three or even four--straight hours at work.Perhaps this is due to the reverie in which you are bound to indulge during the break period, reasoning out in your own thoughts the things you've been memorizing. Or, perhaps your mind simply begins to wander when you press it for too long periods of time. At any rate, spaced learning really does work ... try it. Studying for several short periods of time, with intervals of relaxation, generally produces longer-lasting memories than does one long, intensified study period.Fringe benefits of spaced learningA peculiar trick which your mind occasionally plays is remembering more of something some time after memorizing it, than very shortly after completion of the memory task. This seems to be a direct contradiction of the memory curve, but it's a very specialized case.Soon after you've completed a turn at the books, you'll be able to remember a certain portion of the material you've covered, right? But, a few hours, ... [more..]

A popular instructional development of recent years has been the use of small groups within classrooms to provide students an engaging, non-threatening learning experience. The strategy leverages the tenets of the constructivist approach, whose adherents believe that students, rather than coming to the course with a "blank slate," construct new knowledge within the parameters of their existing knowledge. Although purists differentiate the terms cooperative learning and collaborative learning -- largely according to the instructor's degree of involvement, many practitioners treat the terms as largely synonymous. While there is value in considering the connotations of each term individually, I'll be using the term cooperative/collaborative learning throughout this article.Simply having students work in small groups does not guarantee effective learning outcomes. In order for learning to be cooperative/collaborative, the following five elements that must be present: Positive interdependence of goals, roles, resources, and rewards. Students must believe that they are linked with others such that one cannot succeed unless the other members of the group also succeed. Face-to-face promotive interaction. Students must help, assist, encourage, and support one another's efforts to learn. Individual accountability. Each student's performance is assessed, and the results are given back to the group and the individual. ... [more..]