5 Handy Tips To Help You Master Your Online Studies

Completing an online course offers more than an opportunity to learn a new skill. Adding a new course to your CV demonstrates that you are motivated, disciplined and invested in self-development. Sounds easy? Studying online brings its own challenges for learners. Online learners often find it hard to stay focused on their course content and to stick to the course schedule without a lecturer checking their progress.  Check out our 5 handy tips to help you master your online studies.

1. Be Organised

Before you embark on your studies, find out everything you need to know about the course – the schedule, how assessments work, deadlines for coursework and what support is available if you need help. Check any technical requirements and update the internet browsers on your computer or device.  Spend some time navigating the course layout and website so you can quickly access your studies.

Use a calendar to take note of important course dates and the date that you want to finish the course on. Email services like Outlook and Gmail include calendars and task lists to help keep you organised, or use a printed calendar.

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Tips On Choosing The Right Course

Finding the right course for you can be a difficult task, and because it is such a hard task some often put it in the back of their minds and forget about studying altogether. These people are the ones that are missing out on opportunities that arise. In order to counter this, here are some tips on how to choose the right course – taking the first step is often a daunting one, but it can be made easier. Just read on to find out more. The only way you are going to be able to see if a course is the best fit for you, make sure you ask lots of questions and suss everything out.

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14 Interesting ELearning Facts

As we forge ahead into 2014, the elearning industry is certainly carrying some momentum. Last year was exciting on many fronts – from new technologies, new services, and tools. It is reasonable to expect an increased growth (and interest) in elearning for 2014.

Perks Of Studying Online (Infographic)

Some reasons why studying online is great:

• Convenient – allows for flexibility
• Easily access all content via online portals
• Students control the study-time – when and where you want
• Cuts out travel times
• Being part of an online community
• Cost-effective – not as expensive as University courses

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Where to next for graduates?

Graduating from your current course can be daunting, especially in the realm of the current competitive working environment. Here are some of the options for what to do next:

1. You can continue to study – so if you have completed a Certificate IV, move into a Diploma and if you are graduating from a Diploma, move into higher education (Bachelor). This way, you can continue to refine and develop your skills
2. Move into another course that you are interested in and develop new skills – broadening your horizon. We as humans never stop learning
3. Move into the work force
4. Advance in your workplace

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Technology Changing The Workplace In The 21st Century

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Everything in the 21st Century has changed, from the likes of the way we go about our daily lives to the way to work. How has work changed in the 21st Century?

Well, as everyone is well aware, technological advances has been integrated into our lives. Can you imagine a world without computers, tablets and smartphones? All these technologies has been made to make living our lives easier. Tasks such as keeping on top of all your mail and scheduling meetings has never been easier, all without the fuss of the archaic paper and pen.

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Accounting Course Package

Certificate IV and Diploma of Accounting Course Packages

The difficult thing with wanting to study the Diploma of Accounting is that the certificate iv is a required prerequisite – where ever you study it. So if you don’t have the certificate iv it means months of extra study and added costs.

We help students mitigate this added time and cost by packaging the two courses together in a way that considerably reduces these headaches.

The way it works is simple – students can skip the elective units of the certificate iv while still gaining access to the diploma. On top of this students can then study the diploma with two elective units removed (credited from those studied as part of the certificate iv). Students still receive both qualifications upon successful completion.

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You Want Fries With That? Creative Careers Are Still Out There, For Now

The old jokes about creative arts and humanities graduates serving at the local fast food outlet are hard to put to rest – they speak to long-held concerns around the value of creative degrees, and to worries that students of creative arts programs aren’t employable when they graduate.

But soon-to-be released national graduate tracking research findings conducted by my research team at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation show that, while Australian creative arts graduates can take a while to settle in to their careers, their outcomes are actually very good.

But it seems likely the federal government’s new “earn or learn” social security policy will hinder the graduates’ attempts to launch into creative careers.

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The Internet and the changing nature of education

Everything is taking to the online realm now, so it’s not surprising that education is slowly making the change and adapting as well. The Internet has become an increasingly important feature of learning for people of all ages everywhere.

The world is speeding up because of the Internet and everybody seems to want everything now and at the click of a button. 83% of Australian households have access to the Internet. It is used as both a research tool for educational purposes as well as a place where people connect with each other socially via social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. Furthermore 93% of people believe that the Internet has helped students learn new things. Search engines like Google play a major part in education as it took out the process of having to physically flick through pages and pages of information.

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Every weekend could be four days long, if the will was there

In a world of iPhones and drones, people are right to wonder why they are still working so hard. The past century saw huge technological advances and yet there hasn’t been a corresponding increase in leisure time: people are working as hard as ever.

The Easter break lasts for four days; couldn’t every weekend be like this?

Proponents of shorter work time have received two pieces of good news recently. One is the announcement of a new law in France to prevent employees being required to read work emails out of office hours. The other is the decision in Sweden to experiment with a six-hour work day for some public sector workers.

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