Educational Talks http://educationaltalks.com Education Issues and Importance, History, Elementary, Physical, Online, College, special, parenting, topics, articles and lots more updates en-us Copyright 2007, Educational Talks team. 240 Is a College Education Always Worth It? http://educationaltalks.com/article.asp?articleid=96049 Sun, 5 Sep 2010 04:43 GMT http://educationaltalks.com/article.asp?articleid=96049 I anticipate that the title of this article will probably upset a few people, but please bear with me and continue reading. I am certainly a strong proponent of learning and education, as I myself am a college graduate in Chemical Engineering. However, the chief arguments I would like to present are that education does not have to be formal to be effective, and that the main purpose of a formal education is to get a better job.

Basically, a college education is an investment in your future. Just as in evaluating the merits of any investment, you need to perform a cost-benefit analysis, with the cost being the tuition and fees, and the benefits being the increase in pay you could expect due to attaining your degree. The higher the costs, the larger the benefits need to be for the investment to make sense.

]]> Is An Online College Education For You? http://educationaltalks.com/article.asp?articleid=95935 Sat, 4 Sep 2010 05:33 GMT http://educationaltalks.com/article.asp?articleid=95935 Online college education refers to courses where at least 80 percent of content is distributed online. There is often no face-to-face contact involved with these degree programs. The students can work in their study time on a schedule that best fits their own schedule.

Recent advances in online education has made college degrees obtained through online study as readily accepted as college degrees earned by on campus study. On average, online courses are far more writing intensive than traditional classes have ever been. Online education also involves access to databases in the form of text files or multimedia web pages, as well as the exchange of information (e.g., assignments, course materials) via file transfers. Online education is rapidly increasing, and online doctoral programs have even developed at leading research universities.

]]> Advantages & Disadvantages of Online Education That you Must Know http://educationaltalks.com/article.asp?articleid=95832 Fri, 3 Sep 2010 05:29 GMT http://educationaltalks.com/article.asp?articleid=95832 Online education has become a popular channel for many students to pursue their degree. The fact shows that most online students are successfully complete their degree program but 40% of them failed. Most of online students are pursuing their degree online because they are seeing many advantages of online education that can benefits them but the 40% that failed do not aware of the disadvantages of online education that cause their failure. In order to avoid you to become of one the statistic of failure in online education, you must first understand the pro and con of taking your degree online before you make up your decision to earn your degree through this online channel. Here are the major advantages and disadvantages of online education that you must know:

The Advantages of Online Education

In today's busy lifestyle, most people have no time to go back to school even they have intention to get more degrees for career advancement, job promotion or simply to learning something new. This is where one of the advantages of online education will benefit these people. Online education is able to provide you with a flexible learning environment from any location as long as you are offered with internet connection.

With a proper time management, you can easily plan your online learning sessions to fit into your busy schedule and follow your own pace of study to complete your degree program. Another key advantage of online education is you can attend the online classes from your comfort home or any location that you find convenient to you. This also means that you can enroll into any online degree program offered by any universities around the world as long as they make their degree program online. With that in mind, you do not need to worry about unable to find a degree that can't meet your career or lifestyle requirement.

In general, you can complete a degree online in shorter period of time if compare to the same courses offer in campus-based programs. Unless you purposely delay your courses due to fail to proper manage your time. In term of tuition fee, although it's not always true, but in general, online degree programs cost less then campus-based degree programs as most of learning materials are in downloadable format and the credit hours required to complete an online degree program is comparatively less. Hence, you could save some money by taking your degree online.

The Disadvantages of Online Education

The advantages of online education can become the disadvantages if you are not the right candidate for online education. The flexibility of planning your own schedule in online education could be the disadvantages for you if you are a type of person that can't manage your time probably between your work, family and study. If you are this kind of person, a pre-plan schedule may fit you well, letting yourself to study at your own pace with your own schedule may causes you fail to complete your degree program.

As most of online learning materials are in text format, if you are not comfortable with this format and prefer to listen to the lecture instead of reading it. Then, it will become the disadvantage for you and you need to reconsider your decision before you choose online education to be your degree pursuing channel.

]]> Bowling In Physical Education Class http://educationaltalks.com/article.asp?articleid=95724 Thu, 2 Sep 2010 04:58 GMT http://educationaltalks.com/article.asp?articleid=95724 Bowling In Physical Education Class: Bowling in physical education class is a fun way to teach kids cooperation and coordination skills.  Physical Education bowling is different from regular bowling in many ways but the biggest difference is the equipment that is used.  Regular bowling balls and pins are not used.  What is used are rubberized plastic or foam balls and plastic or foam pins.  The balls that are used can weigh from 1.5 lbs to 5 lbs depending on the material they are made of.  These ball are made for physical education class only.  They are not made to be used at a real bowling ally.  Bowling physical education programs are recommended for grade levels 3-5.

]]> What Makes Online Education A Better Option For You? http://educationaltalks.com/article.asp?articleid=95648 Wed, 1 Sep 2010 14:41 GMT http://educationaltalks.com/article.asp?articleid=95648 What Makes Online Education A Better Option For You? Nowadays, pursuing a degree through online education is common, and the value of online degree from a proper accredited university or college is equally weight than the traditional campus-based degree. With both campus-based degree and online education you have more options to choose from if you want to earn a degree for you career advancement. Online education has many advantages that can benefit its students, but it may not be a good option for all students; then what makes online education a better option for you? Here a 5 signs that an online education might be a better option for you.

]]> Physical Education First, Rugby Second Are Bell's Rules http://educationaltalks.com/article.asp?articleid=95248 Sat, 21 Aug 2010 04:50 GMT http://educationaltalks.com/article.asp?articleid=95248 Physical Education First, Rugby Second Are Bell's RulesPhysical Education First, Rugby Second Are Bell's Rules: Andre Bell is something of an accidental rugby coach. Thirteen years ago he faced a tough decision as he clutched an NPC contract in one hand and a job offer to teach at Rotorua Boys' High School in the other. At 25, the Otago fullback's rugby career was far from over and another year in front of the packed Dunedin terraces beckoned.

But it wasn't why he'd headed south to university. It wasn't why his parents had jumped at a scholarship for him to board at Lindisfarne College in Napier. And it wasn't why he had just completed a degree in physical education. "I actually rang the principal of Rotorua Boys and said, `Can I come after the NPC finishes?' He said, `No'.

"He said he would accept my decision if I chose rugby, but he would be pretty disappointed.

"I told the Otago coach Glen Ross, `I'm going to Rotorua to pursue my career', and he said, `Good on ya' and shook my hand.

]]> Education board gets annual AYP report http://educationaltalks.com/article.asp?articleid=95004 Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:39 GMT http://educationaltalks.com/article.asp?articleid=95004 A bold prediction of success was the silver lining to the Thursday night's "annual punishment" for the members of Farmington Municipal School District's Board of Education. Robert Emerson, the assistant superintendent of technology, gave the board a presentation on how Farmington schools did when testing for Adequate Yearly Progress, or AYP. The results were made public in New Mexico last week.

Emerson referred to it as punishment because no school in the district made AYP.But he also talked about progress made throughout the district and said by giving students incentives for AYP tests, Farmington high schools will improve the percentage of proficient students by 15 to 20 percent next year.

AYP for schools is achieved by a week-long test for a federally determined percentage of "proficient" children. The percentage increases every year and if a school fails to make that percentage in one of around 37 subgroups, the whole school fails.

]]> Obama Gets Bill Passed, Saves Education Jobs http://educationaltalks.com/article.asp?articleid=94842 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:09 GMT http://educationaltalks.com/article.asp?articleid=94842 President Barack Obama has been working vigorously to resurrect the education system in the United States of America back to its glory of previous generations. As the graduation rates and overall quality of education has dipped in the United States in recent history in comparison to other states in the world, President Obama made it his personal agenda to raise those rates.

On Tuesday, the United States House of Representatives passed the bill proposed by Obama, which would bring $26 billion dollars to the Education Department in order to save the jobs of teachers. The bill, which had already made its way through the United States Senate, passed by a vote of 247 to 161 in the House.

]]> Education City faces bleak future http://educationaltalks.com/article.asp?articleid=94780 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:08 GMT http://educationaltalks.com/article.asp?articleid=94780 The UT's only mega project that took off, Education City, is also facing a bleak future, though its reasons for that are quite different from those of other similar projects.In this case, the stringent conditions finalized by administration have kept most major institutes away.

UT adviser Pradip Mehra had convened a meeting about this on Monday, but the final decision is yet to be taken on scrapping the project. Sources in administration, however, confirmed that it was only a matter of time before UT came out with a formal announcement for that as the project had failed to generate response expected from private educational institutes.

Most applicants shortlisted by the education department for allocation of sites in Education City have backed out and only three have so far signed agreements with UT. The applicants, which were allotted land for the first and second phase of the project, had pointed out to the administration that All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) norms required that either the company should own the land on which educational set up was proposed or have the area's lease for 99 years.

]]> China's education can step into world http://educationaltalks.com/article.asp?articleid=94680 Mon, 9 Aug 2010 11:10 GMT http://educationaltalks.com/article.asp?articleid=94680 Chinese International School (Singapore), after more than three years of exploration, innovation, construction and harvesting, has gained achievements and success. This shows that China's education, not only can go to the world, but also can contribute to upgrading of China's soft power, a school principal has said.

The school was established by Beijing Huijia Educational Institutions in September 2006. Based on international Baccalaureate (IB) standards, the school is characterized by the Chinese culture and integration of Eastern and Western culture.

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