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Time management and online MBA

Online MBA is one of the most successful examples of an e-learning course. However, we still remain a little skeptical about it. To understand about what online MBA is all about and how to manage your time is extremely important before you opt for this course. We are living in a day and age, where education can no longer be ignored. Sometimes through situations life happens, which makes it quite difficult for many to leave everything for a degree. Money, work, and time makes it hard for people to even consider the possibility of a higher degree. Leaving the luxury of earning for even a year is a no-no for anyone who doesn’t have the bank balance to support them.  Taking out time for education is not possible in today’s fast-paced world.
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Top 5 tips to select e-learning MBA courses

Three years ago, when Suchitra Pandey, then an executive at a finance company, enrolled for an online MBA program in Finance from one of the reputed B-schools in India, she never knew how this additional degree along with her current job could easily pave a path for her career growth. Currently working as a manager in the same company, there is never looking back in the career for her. (more…)

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Online learning development

Online learning is nothing more than correspondence studying with a kick. Distance learning is something that has been around for over a century. In the 19th century, a school principal in England began to teach short hand to students in the city. Instead of taking classes the conventional way – in a classroom at a fixed time- he actually went around to each of these peoples’ houses. In a time where having a serious handicap, being a housewife or simply not having the money to afford class was the issue – this kind of teaching proved valuable. This is where the concept for correspondence learning first made its mark.
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MIT-Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT is no famous name without a reason. Its mission is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in this new age.

Committed to generate, disseminate and preserve knowledge, while working with others to bring this knowledge, it bears on the world’s great challenges. MIT is dedicated to provide its students with an education that combines rigorous academic study and the excitement of discovery, with the support and intellectual stimulation of a diverse campus community. They strive to develop in each member of the MIT community the ability and passion to work wisely, creatively, and effectively for the,  betterment of humankind.
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The pros and the cons of e-learning

By the end of the XX century e-learning had become an accepted part of the education and training industry. Their popularity has preceded the expectations of many experts who earlier dismissed it as a passing phenomenon. E-learning is here to stay and therefore it is only useful to know the benefits and perils that it has to offer.

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Free open educational source – edX Platform

 

Stanford University and edX, the non-profit online learning enterprise founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), announced their collaboration to advance the development of edX’s open source learning platform and provide free and open online learning tools for institutions around the world.

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