Many adults find themselves going back to school whether or not they attended college previously. This can be for many reasons from a change in career direction or just out of interest. Online schooling has been a welcome change for many adults because of the flexibility that comes with it. One can attend classes in their own time and maintain their responsibilities as a professional or parent.
The availability of certification which you can obtain range through many fields from a bachelor’s degree to more specified career trades. Some fields do require labs for a hand-on experience while some schools require weekly or monthly meetings, which should be taken into account depending upon your schedule.
Working Adults and Parents
Adults that are returning to school have different concerns than someone just graduating from high school. They have to make sure that the school schedule won’t adversely affect them on the job. They have to make sure that they will still have time to take care of their families. These blogs address some of the issues that working adults and moms have when they think about returning to college.
- Education for All
Here the focus is on the pros and cons of online education. Often there are things that have not been considered or are forgotten when making the choice of going back to school. Find out if an online school is the right choice for you.
- Grants For Women
Explore the grants available including those specifically for women. Find out how grants can help you financially afford the career future you deserve.
- Pell Grants for Mothers
Read about the changes made to traditional grants to assist moms in continuing their education. Mothers of all circumstances deserve a higher education and the government has acknowledged that by awarding them a larger grant maximum.
- The Motherload
This blog is a must read for adult students that are moms. This blog provides a wide variety of resources for mothers. From budgeting to managing your time better, there is a topic on this blog that will help you.
- Hip Moms Who Work
This resource is for working parents. Both moms and dads can find something useful to help them manage their jobs and their families.
- Mom’s Most Wanted
This blog is an awesome resource for moms. You will find a boatload of useful freebies being given away. You will also get tips and tricks on how to survive all of the ups and downs that come with motherhood.
- Dad Labs: Taking Back Paternity
The purpose of this blog is to provide resources for dads. Learn how you can juggle your various responsibilities and become a better father.
- Mocha Dad
This blog is one man’s musings about fatherhood. Check this blog often for resources designed to help you raise your kids.
Study Tips for Adults
Even with the flexibility of online schooling, trying to fit study into your schedule can pose conflicts. Often adults who have been away from school for some time find that freshening up on lost study habits is incredibly helpful to counteract late nights and stress. Being able to retain the information you are trying to absorb is crucial and if you find your skills to be off, some of these tips can help put you back on track.
- Learn How to Study…Easily!
This article will teach you how to increase your brainpower and concentration so you can get the best results from yourself. The site also has numerous tips on increasing speed and memory as well as study workshops.
- Mount Observer
Written by college students, this site is full of information that will help anyone with the desire to go back to school. These are particularly helpful in those taking distance courses where occasional attendance and books are required.
- CPA Exam Preparation Blog
Steps in study to help with taking your CPA exam. Although aimed toward accounting, this blog offers tips that are helpful to prepare for any exam you may take. The site also offers many videos and resources for students including CPA exams and other topics.
- Taking Test Tips.com
Test taking can cause a lot of anxiety. There are many helpful tips here on how to put you at ease before a big test here. This site also includes excellent user-friendly study resources for anyone attending traditional or online schools.
- 11 Tips to Improve Studying
Here you will find 11 tips to improve areas you might be having trouble with. The advice is great for anyone who is having trouble finding a balance and may study too much, too little, or can’t find their focus.
- Organize It!
Going from traditional books, binders, and paper to technology is quite a change. Learn about some tools and strategies that can help keep your schoolwork organized and clutter free. Organization is a huge key to success no matter where it is implemented.
- Education World
A comprehensive list of online encyclopedias. Although geared towards school aged students, this site is full of information and resources that apply to anyone. Need to write a paper? You will have all of the resources you need with current information from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy to the Medical Encyclopedia.
- Computing Technology for Math Excellence
This site contains excellent resources and a link library of journals, magazines, online libraries, and dictionaries. Also included are; a section of journals and other resources for those looking to delve into online education.
- Studying for Exams
This article walks you through preparing for a major test and calming anxiety. With tools and helpful strategies, it is possible to turn the situation into a positive experience and get the grade you deserve.
Learning Styles
Everyone has their own style of learning based upon how their brain functions such as visual or auditory among many others. Many people realize that they struggle in a few areas but that doesn’t mean struggling must continue or that the particular area will always be difficult. Much like finding the right career, finding your learning style can greatly improve your understanding and bring ease to learning.
- Institute for Learning Styles Research
This comprehensive site is filled with information to steer you towards finding your learning style. You can take a quiz to find your style, read about the seven perceptual ways of learning, and browse the interesting dissertations written on learning styles.
- The Education Coalition
This article appeared in Teleconference Magazine and discusses the history, research, and styles in which people learn. Also addressed are multiple intelligences and the learning models that have been implemented to work with particular or multiple styles.
- Learning Style Aids
This site offers a variety of resources for many different learning styles. The supplied detailed pages for visual, auditory, and tactile learners are helpful to determine strengths and ways to alter learning toward the method most compatible.
- A Deeper Look at Learning Styles
How to implement multiple learning styles in teaching. From an academic psychologist point of view, trying to find ways to apply learning styles into teaching can come with some dilemmas.
- Remember Anything
An interesting look at the varieties of learning. Here there are descriptions of the most common learning types and the methods in which each learns, including an explanation of multiple learning types and why they evolve.
Tutoring
If you have been away from the classroom for a while, you might need some help with your homework assignments. That’s not a problem. These blogs will give you tips on finding tutors. You can also find tutorials on these blogs.
- What is Tutoring?
Find out what the role of your tutor should be before you hire one. There is no need to worry about why you may need a tutor, even the best students can excel with a little extra instruction. Often tutors are taught skills that are obscure to schools and can greatly improve your learning.
- Things to Know Before Hiring a Tutor
You may need a little extra help in some subjects but don’t waste your money if results won’t happen. This comprehensive article details everything you should know and the questions you should ask before hiring a private tutor or an e-tutoring company.
- Outsourced E-tutoring
Outsourcing in America is not only for customer service work it has become a convenient tool in education as well. Companies are able to provide 24-hour service to students around the globe.
- Tutorial Blog
This blog has tutorials in a lot of different subjects. Whatever it is you are struggling with in school, you can probably find a tutorial about it on this blog.
- Trevor Davis’ Blog
If you are taking computer classes, you will find this blog really helpful. This blog has a wide variety of tutorials. PHP, CSS, Joomla, and HTML are among the many topics discussed on this blog.
Careers
Obtaining a degree online can lead to many career choices just as with a traditional degree. Now is the time to explore all of the different career options that are out there for you. This is also a great time to learn about effective job hunting skills. These blogs give you tips about all of those things.
- American Heart Association-Stroke Course
This is a free online course offered to medical professionals to educate in the signs of stroke. Strokes are one of the highest death causes but many can survive if the proper attention is administered right away.
- Fashion Design Online
If you are interested in getting into fashion after you finish school, you will want to check this blog out first. This blog gives you insight into what you need to know before you pick an online school. This blog gives tips on how to get into the fashion industry.
- The Dental Field
There are a few choices when it comes to working in the dental field. This article explains some of the positions there are to those interested in a dentistry career and gives detailed job descriptions.
- 45 Things Anita Bruzzese
If you are concerned about making a good impression on your new employer, this is the blog for you. While job hunting is tough, keeping the job once you get it is even tougher. This blog gives you tips on how to get a job. You can also read this blog to find out how to keep your job.
- The Job Bored
This blog is dedicated to helping people find a job. This blogger also wants to help people get ahead at work. Add this to your reading list to discover how you can become and stay gainfully employed after graduation.
Benefits of Adult Education
Many careers require some type of education beyond college. Adult education can help you further your career. These blogs give you more information about the benefits of adult education.
- Benefits of Professional Continuing Education Courses
The need to become involved in adult education may be at the request of an employer. Certain professionals are required to continually upgrade their skills to remain up to date with changes in their industry and to maintain a professional edge in their field.
- Back2schoolsmoms
In this resource, the concerns of mature women on issues relating to re-entering school after many years are voiced. These women are managing fulltime jobs, growing families and the demands of continuing education.
- The Nontraditional Student website: support for all nontraditional students
This resource provides a wide variety of information to assist the mature individual with such matters as study skills, scholarship and grant information, strategies to stay motivated, and articles on the success of other adult learners.
- Non Traditional Law Student: Thoughts Of A Non Traditional Law Student
This resource recognizes that a mature student attempting to study for the bar examinations while also managing a family and work responsibilities, can become quite overwhelmed if not provided with adequate support.
- Reaching Lifelong Goals as a Nontraditional Student
The author of this resource describes himself as a 53 year old non-traditional student who is enrolled as a History major at a university. He is now back in school after a 35 year absence, and he provides not only interesting accounts of his pastimes, but also study tips, methods to generate income from hobbies and at home opportunities, and other resources.
- Welcome to StudentAgain.com: An Online Resource for Nontraditional Students
This resource aims to make the decision of non-traditional students to return to school as stress free as possible. It provides information to allow students to hit the ground running, as well as provide valuable financial aid guide to meet their financial obligations
- What About Our Daughters - What About Our Daughters
This resource deals with the feeling of a law student graduate who despite the passage of 10 years since graduation has the courage to follow her interest for photography and re-enrolled into college for no credit courses.
Time Management and Leadership Skills
When you are juggling school, work, and family, you have to know how to manage your time wisely. This skill will help you maintain some level of sanity as you try to juggle multiple responsibilities. It is important to have good leadership skills if you want to be successful in your work life or school life. These blogs will give you tips on how to manage your time wisely so you can work efficiently.
- The Time Finder
This blog focuses on helping people find time to do what they have to do by eliminating things that aren’t important. Learning how to prioritize tasks now will be a huge help for you in the future.
- Your Personal Best
This blog gives advice on how to maintain a proper work-life balance. This blog also gives self improvement advice.
- Time Management Mum
This blog gives you tips about how to juggle your home responsibilities and your responsibilities at work and school. This is a great blog for parent students to bookmark.
- The One Asset Every Good Leader Must Have
Good leaders usually have a certain thing in common. There is usually one factor that contributes to their success. Read this blog post to find out what that asset is.
- Your Best Just Got Better
This blog gives ideas on how to live your best life. You can learn about leadership, organization, and more from reading this blog.
- 3 Quick Tips From The Super Bowl Champs
This blog gives information on leadership. This blog post uses the New Orleans Saints as examples to follow when it comes to leadership. It talks about how the head coach perpetuated the team’s success with his leadership.
Managing Diversity
We live in a very diverse world. People of all nationalities often work side by side. It is important to learn about different cultures now while you are still taking college courses. This will help you be able to work with the different cultures you will face in the workforce.
- DTUI.com Diversity Blog
This blog sheds light on diversity issues in the workplace. This blog discusses various news events and how they impact diversity issues.
- Diversity Lane
This blog would provide a welcome study break. This blog provides witty political cartoons about the issue of diversity. While you might not agree with the blogger’s politics, you have to love the artwork.
- Putting Our Differences to Work
This blog gives insight on working with different cultures. Read this blog for ideas on how to make differences at work, work for you.
- En Foco’s Blog
This blog is a place to discuss diversity in photography. This is a great blog for adult students taking online photography classes to read.
- Native Born
This blog is one woman’s thoughts about diversity. Read about culture clashes and managing differences from a woman that has to manage diversity in her own family.
Taking college courses as an adult can be a scary thing. You have to relearn how to study and deal with new technologies. If you have the right support system around you, it doesn't have to be that overwhelming. These blogs will help you transition into being a student.
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