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Many of you may not have heard of the animated television show King of the Hill, suffice to say it is a show loosely based upon a character from Beavis and Butthead. At least I think it’s based off of him, Tom Anderson.Anyways so I’m eating lunch tonight at work and on a television in the room is this cartoon show where a young ...
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Tonight I will wrap up Learning Block 2 in Operations Management. It was a 5 page research paper and a couple of discussion board questions. The reading assignments are fairly smooth as Operations Management is really just a form of systems thinking or what I call a big picture approach to handling situations. I’m one of ...
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For the past 6 months I have been working on quantitative courses and not really so much on anything research or qualitative. Even though I was required to write final projects the information was largely presented in equations, formulas and numerical answers with brief to thorough explanations. There really wasn’t a whole lot of ...
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“Where do you find the time?” “You must really like working a lot.” “You must be a (book worm or nerd or Einstein or driven or a workaholic or any number of assumptions people like to make about someone they barely know anything about other than they are different). These three quotes above are ...
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I was reading a newspaper article this weekend about the Texas Virtual Academy, a charter school which is entirely online where kids K-12 can earn their diploma from home, or at least advance to the next grade. Upon reading this I learned that for a student to attend a brick and mortar public school costs $8,700 per student per year. ...
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I read an interesting interview of an executive recruiter over the value of the MBA. I recommend you read it as well, but in a nutshell, the MBA has real value. It has the most value in investment banking, consulting work and finance but can be a cross industry asset as well. The MBA is being more sought after by being ...
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This week in Managerial Finance we looked at investing. By the nature of investing there is an
element of risk. Risk is the price of
opportunity for profit. I’ve always
considered getting an education to be an investment, albeit one in which the
returns are often not readily quantifiable but an investment ...
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I submitted my assignment and completed my discussion questions ending week 3 of Managerial Finance. I have to tell you folks, this was one of the roughest weeks I’ve experienced since beginning my MBA program. I knew there would be weeks like this and I thought I had prepared myself mentally for it before even starting the ...
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Hi everybody!
I was wondering what's the best way to order books? The college bookstore prices are a little high, and I pay out of pocket for books.
I looked online in the bookstore for my school but the item descriptions are vague (no ISBN numbers or pictures). It only had the title, edition number for each book and the copyright year. That ...
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This is part II of a two part series. (Click to view part I.)
6.) Technology. Technology is an inevitable part of being an online student. Using new, unfamiliar software and mastering the art of using it skillfully will become essential. If you are still carrying a pager, use a rotary phone, are afraid of a fax machine and ...
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Okay I know it seems strange for a guy who is all about distance education to write about the negative aspects of learning online, but for the sake of fairness sometimes it is necessary to look at the bad side of learning as well as the good. After all it is important to make a well-informed decision when considering going back to ...
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Of course there are many, many good reasons people don’t get an MBA, such as being a Heart Surgeon or a full time Nurse Practitioner or some other lucrative career choice where an MBA really wouldn’t further your career much if any. But for those of you working in business or those of you who have majored in business it can often ...
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Normally I will finish my written assignment on Saturday night after working on it for a while throughout the week. Well unfortunately, I have been a little more pressed for time than normal and I still need to submit the assignment by Monday. Given that tomorrow is the “big game” (note the term super-duper-bowl is ...
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The Financial Times, in the United Kingdom have a very interesting article published a couple days ago on survey results from MBA students. These students graduated in 2004 and the survey attempts to see their progress after 3 years, posting results for 2008. Again further proof that an MBA pays in the long run, though perhaps not ...
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First I would like to say hello to everyone. This is my first post although i have been on here for a few days now reading the forums.
I figure that if i give you a little background information about my self then it may help to answer my questions.
I am 25 years old and live in Nashville, TN. When i graduated high school i went to college and ...
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Almost anyone in business can tell you, the world of business is becoming increasingly global. I’ve made no bones in the past about how important an MBA can be for ones future prospects at getting ahead. Though I am still debating as to whether this is because of the skills you learned due to your MBA studies or the sheer fact ...
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According to the Star Tribune the MBA has become “the” degree to get for working adults. In the St. Paul-Minneapolis area alone the newspaper estimates that there are 5,000 MBA students working towards their degree from one of a dozen available schools. Students, “…primarily working adults taking classes at ...
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This really seems more of a niche audience type of blog post, so if you’re reading this, you either like the way I write, are related to me or are really into music and education. As you may have surmised from the title, I’m attempting to appeal to the latter audience.
I’ve written in the past that I love to play guitar. In ...
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A coworker of mine overheard me talking about the expense of graduate school. After all, I did just prepay the balance of my tuition to Ashford. He kind of in a joking way stated, “all of that money and time gone and you’re in the same job as me probably making the same money and I don’t even have a degree.”
Now he did ...
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More changes are coming at Kaplan in the form of mergers. I’d like to provide an opinion on one aspect of these mergers. The concept of “online law school” is what I’m talking about, and I have some concerns.
Kaplan recently announced a merger with Concord Law School. I’ve always been of the opinion ...
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Hello Steve
Do we have lot of distant learning universities in africa like back in the western countries.
I have been looking for an online distant learning university in Africa for quite sometime now but i seem not to have any luck.
And if there is are they cheaper than most western countries.
The idea of paying $5000 or less for a ...
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We see a lot of advertising for schools that offer “accelerated” degrees. This can be misleading to some if you don’t know what you are getting into. As someone who has just graduated from Kaplan, and had no transfer credits going into the program, I wanted to provide some perspective on this topic.
Keep in mind that ...
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Okay I know I promised a 3 part series on certificates, which I will finish sometime tonight or tomorrow, but for now something more pressing is at hand. Terry has an excellent blog post on one of the many shortcomings of my beloved State of Texas in regards to education. I strongly urge you to read his post in which he rightfully is ...
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People who are aware of my educational pursuits (friends, co-workers, etc…) are pretty envious of my accomplishments. I constantly have people come up to me and ask me how school is going, how long I have left, and what I think about distance education. When I tell them that I am about a year and a half away from my MBA (my ...
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Some of you will recall a string of posts a while back addressing the issue of MBA accreditation. This is something that weighed a tremendous amount during my search for my MBA. We discussed the two primary agencies that handle the accreditation process, the ACBSP and AACSB. In working to distinguish between the two, Steve ...
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