“Distance Learning For Dummies” A Survival Guide For Those Seeking An Online Degree.
For many Americans a stark realization has hit like an atomic bomb. Procuring a degree is a necessary part of partaking in the ever elusive American Dream. Distance learning, if approached properly can afford the pupil a wealth of opportunities. In the authors opinion the key to distance learning rest in the amount of effort the student is willing to afford the process. A distance learning program may certainly be the answer for those whom already have prior responsibilities such as careers and family. However, buyers beware: If the student is seeking a true accredited degree from a reputable institution of higher learning then they must be willing to approach the process as such. Anyone seeking an easy ride will be sorely disappointed.
The university library weather in a digitized class room or in a traditional brick and mortar institution is at the very core of almost all assignments. The student must carefully consider his or her plan of attack and then execute, being careful not to become lost in the seemingly endless mass of information. The student will log into their university hub site then choose to navigate to the library. The student will be whisked through cyber space and directly to the main web page of their universities library data base. Here the student will choose what sort of references he or she would need to utilize from journal databases, periodicals, books, dissertations, theses, and economic data; as well as encyclopedias, dictionaries thesaurus’ and the other "usual suspects' of the reference world.
It is imperative that the student become acclimated to perusing the main data bases, such as ProQuest, Gale Power Search and EBSCOhost. With minimal effort the student can learn to navigate these web sites with relative ease by typing in the search criteria in the main search “bar”. The student may then select weather he or she would care to narrow their search to
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