I feel honored to introduce myself to my fellow classmates and my instructor at UoPeople. My name is Wilson and I was born and raised in Papua New Guinea. I now live in the United States with my lovely wife and my two-year-old son. I am intending to pursue an associate degree in Business Administration. One new thing I learned after the scavenger hunt activity was where to find the student catalog in both Moodle and Student Portal. Previously, I thought the student catalog was only…
Is the Trend Towards Online Learning in Higher Education Beneficial to Students? Modern society has acquired the mindset that everything a person needs, must be easily accessible anywhere and at any time, that even includes their higher education. The trend towards online learning has grown substantially over the past decade. Sitting down in a face to face learning environment is becoming an “old school” trend that many are beginning to deter from for many reasons. Although some prefer a face…
1.1.1 Collecting the data The data collected for the study comprised of the official documents of the MSc HQ program and the interviews of the faculty. 1.1.1.1 Documents The documents used for the evaluation included the published articles and administrative documents of the program along with the 2015 courses syllabi. 1.1.1.2 Interviews The faculty who volunteered to participate in the study were referred to as participant(s) in this evaluation. Preferably, the course directors were invited to…
there is new mainstream that is defined as distance education which is “the education of students who are not physically present at a school” (Wikipedia). In the article, Distance Education and the Evolution of Online Learning in the United State, Hope E. Kentnor tries to transform the education system by bring up ideas such as broadcasting education on the radio, television, mail and internet. The argument in this article states that it is necessary to “improve the quality of education we…
347 million cold emails, trying to sell a pharmaceutical product. Only 25 people bought the medicine. That’s one sale for every 12.5 million emails sent. That’s an abysmal conversion rate. That’s why spammers send so many emails- for them it’s a numbers game. It’s also the reason why email marketing got a bad reputation in the 1990’s and early 2000’s. Back then spam-filters were nowhere near as good as they are now. Many emails that were delivered to your inbox in 2002 would never be delivered…
Participants will be instructed not to provide their name but will be asked to provide a non-identifiable number of their choosing. The numeric identifier will only be used for data verification purposes. It will not be linked to any participant. The researcher will not know the identity of the participants. Results of this study will be presented in group form…
In Defense of EBooks Books have always been the medium of knowledge transmission across time and space. Throughout human civilization, generations pass on their wisdom, custom, social codes, and scientific knowledge by way of books. Different civilizations learn from and about each other mostly through books. Books are not just the contents, it is also the physical material on which the content is engraved on and it this part of the book I am discussing in this article. We have completely passed…
Don’t we all wonder what the real purpose of the internet is? What is even the internet? Well, according to the dictionary, the internet is defined as a vast computer network linking smaller computer networks worldwide. The internet can be used for many different reasons, but it’s true purpose is education. Yes, you did hear that right. The main purpose for the internet is for it to be used for education purposes. The internet has become an immense part of a student’s everyday life, whether it’s…
customers. Weaknesses: • Extra have few branches comparing it to its other competitors. • Lake in the social responsibility programs they have, and that could be considering as weakness for the company. Opportunity: • They may increase the number of brands they sell, seeing that they didn’t sell all brands in their stores. • Offer more job opportunity for Saudis, and that could be consider as social…
phishing kits they created. The average kit costs between $2 to $10 which makes them easily accessible and are easy to use as will (Symantec, 2016, 33). The most common phishing attacks mimic banking institutions. While reports state that phishing numbers are declining over time, it does not mean that it is losing popularity. Phishing is evolving into a method coined “spear phishing”. (Symantec, 2016,…