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Online Education:
A Way Towards
Modern Learning
In the time of crisis, we all have to focus on
more positives. The education sector is one of
the positives where we have seen the optimum
use of technology.
Though the term online education is not new
to all of us, but today, it has definitely added a
People Behind This Issue
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Editor–in–Chief: Vikram Suryawanshi
Associate Editor: Shubham Biradar
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Vidya Joshi
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huge value to the education sector. Taking hold of
the situation, many universities and institutions are
moving towards providing more comprehensive
online programs to their students. Moreover, they
are also providing new programs and a more tailor-
made curriculum to address the current situation.
Fortunately, in the era of advanced technology, we
can access the internet.
The Editorial team at The Education Magazine
understands the importance of education and does
its continuous evaluations on what's new in the
education sector. After hours of discussion, we
finally agreed on coming out with our latest
magazine issue “The 10 Most Valuable Online
Institutes of 2020.” The institutes featured in
the magazine are not only handling the current
situation with uttermost priority but also preparing
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College of Healthcare Sciences is featured and Effective Learning.
on the cover of the magazine. The institute
aims to offer a clear pathway to professional
collegiate training in alternative healing
modalities, giving graduates non-invasive
and effective tools to treat clients in a truly
holistic way.
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ver the years, the online delivery of education has continued to grow. The benefits of distance learning
have always been the flexibility it offers to the students. Today, online learning has become even more
critical when the world faces challenges of overcrowding, congestion, pandemics, and global warming, to
name a few. Currently, in the dawn of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are witnessing the incredible benefit online
education provides to students and faculty, making education accessible and engaging under any circumstances.
Not just in times of crisis but online education brings together students from around the world who contribute
diverse perspectives and for whom education may not otherwise be accessible.

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erving the same purpose, the American College of
Healthcare Sciences (ACHS) was founded as a
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distance education institution in 1978. Since 1999,
ACHS has been providing fully online classes, which
profits the institution with over 4 decades of
experience in offering education at a distance.
Through its online learning, it allows the student to
create their schedule while continuing to further their
education. For 40 years, ACHS has provided global
access to integrative health modalities training via
traditional distance and now online studies. Currently,
ACHS students are from 80 different countries and
every state within the USA.
NOTE TO THE STUDENTS
“We o er a clear pathway to professional collegiate training in alternative
healing modalities, giving graduates non-invasive and e ective tools to
treat clients in a truly holistic way.”
Personal Challenges led to the Establishment
Dorene Petersen, (Founder and President) of
American College of Healthcare Sciences, was a
working single mother with young children and having
to attend on-campus classes for four-years gave her
first-hand experience of challenges which led to the
establishment of the online learning platform. ACHS
was established with a firm commitment to offer the
life-changing benefits of integrative health and
through the flexibility that distance learning provides.
She later opened additional branches in Australia and
Hong Kong. Today, ACHS is housed entirely on the
U.S. campus located in Portland, Oregon and the
college's satellite campus in Kona, Hawaii.
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The ACHS mission and vision are based on Dorene's
beliefs and principles that have stood the test of time:
“To provide leadership in holistic health education
through comprehensive professional online and on-
campus education and high-quality natural products
with a commitment to sustainable practices and
principles. Through our mission, ACHS fosters
competence, professionalism, and cooperation in
holistic healthcare and works to preserve and share
knowledge in natural medicine. We will achieve our
objectives through a set of values that respect our
students, customers, employees, suppliers, and
community, and to operate with integrity that is
deserving of their trust.”
Excelling In Academic Rigor and Integrity
As an accredited college, ACHS excels in academic
rigor and integrity whilst fulfilling the traditional
values of natural medicine study. The emerging
educational needs are met by fostering engagement
with the natural health industry through employer
surveys, Program Advisory Council (PACs) and
regular attendance at industry conferences. Apart
from this, the classes utilize the interactive platform
for teaching, and students engage in frequent,
substantive interaction with their instructor
throughout each of the 7.5 or 15 weeks courses.
ACHS has a variety of online programs, including
undergraduate and graduate-level certificates,
diplomas and degrees as follows,
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Ÿ Department of Aromatherapy
Under this department, ACHS offers Certificates,
Diplomas, Associates, Bachelors, and Master of
Science degrees in Aromatherapy. As a professional
aromatherapist one can explore working in several
industries like perfumery & flavoring, natural
products & cosmetics, hospital & clinical settings,
private in-person and virtual wellness consulting as
well as spa & hospitality.

Ÿ Department of Holistic Nutrition

With a degree in holistic nutrition, one can
empower the clients to make optimal decisions for
daily health. This course prepares the individual to

emphasize educating and empowering thus

inspiring the clients to make better health choices.

Ÿ Department of Herbal Medicine

The Herbal Medicine Department at ACHS offers
the opportunity to confidently explore nature's
most precious plants. During this interactive,
engaging, online herbalist training students will
learn to recognize and work with a wide range of
herbs, many of which are common weeds. Learn to
formulate herbal remedies to support wellness,
address specific wellness challenges, and enhance
the optimal function of the body. All online classes
include organic herb sample kits and other study
materials to enhance experiential learning.

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Ÿ Department of Integrative Health
Integrative approaches to health and wellness are
designed specifically to enhance and optimize a
patient's treatment plan. One can learn to employ
best practices in aromatherapy, homeopathy,
herbalism and holistic nutrition to treat patients in
a truly personalized way that enhances healing and
vitality.
Cutting-Edge MBA program aimed at Health
and Wellness
The recently launched ACHS MBA program provides
students the opportunity to graduate from a rigorous
MBA grounded in principles of sustainability and
organizational health and wellness.
Integrative health and wellness professionals
graduating from this MBA will have tools to make an
even more significant impact on the unprecedented
health care challenges, needs, and opportunities
facing us today. Students will learn to recognize and
make decisions based upon the interconnectedness
that exists between organizational actions and the
financial, environmental, and social well-being of our
complex and dynamic global society. Today more
than ever, those leading, managing, and developing
business enterprises need an edge. Enroll in this
cutting edge MBA and interact with experienced
doctoral professors and faculty who focus on the
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development of the skills required to thrive amidst
21st Century challenges. Throughout this program,
students use business concepts and sustainability
fundamentals to identify the related opportunities,
trends, and challenges resulting from an approach to
business that considers the financial, environmental,
and social impact of organizational decisions. An
added benefit is throughout the program, students will
develop projects that lead to a portfolio of tangible,
outward-facing examples of their skills and
capabilities for execution.
Learn Well, Live Well, and Educate Others
For several years, ACHS has been named in the top 10
of the 100 Best Green Workplaces in Oregon by the
Oregon business magazine. As a virtual campus,
ACHS is inherently environmentally friendly and
strives to minimize its carbon footprint. The
institution operates with a focus on people and the
planet both. It is devoted to transparency,
accountability, and better the world for others and
encourages and inspires all ACHS students to do the
same through regular events and gatherings.
ACHS actively encourages student and graduate
participation in events such as the eco-challenge, a
global initiative that connects the dots between
individual action and collective impact to create global
change on a human scale. The college also provides
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paid volunteer days so staff can provide support in
their community. Furthermore, ACHS fosters social
and cultural responsibility amongst students by
fostering awareness and demonstrating commitment
by contributing to the public good. The institution
focuses on charities that support basic human dignity
at home and abroad by preventing and addressing
hunger, homelessness, and access to education and
educational opportunities.
Dorene concluded by saying, “Our programs
prioritize holistic living and education about
environmentally responsible practices empowering
our students and graduates to make ecologically
accountable decisions personally and professionally.”
Appreciation for the Outstanding Alumni
Students will find the ACHS graduates in leading
holistic health organizations and corporations across
all industries not just in the US, but worldwide. “Our
graduates are as diverse as the roles they play in the
industry. What they all have in common is a passion
for helping others,” proudly asserts Dorene.
ACHS graduates are passionate about health and
wellness and having a positive impact on the
communities they serve by improving personal health
and wellness and supporting family and friends to
making a difference as holistic health practitioners
and educators around the world. Each year, ACHS
recognizes a Famous Alumni and Outstanding
Graduate to represent the College as part of the
Distance Education Accrediting Commission
Outstanding Graduate program.
Notable Highlights of ACHS
The programs provided by ACHS offer flexibility for
working students while retaining academic rigor,
encouraging critical thinking, and practical
application of theoretical material. Furthermore, the
institution encourages and invites employers in the
holistic health industry to join its active Program
Advisory Councils (PACs). Through this approach, the
ACHS PACs goal is to ensure that the programs align
with today's employers' needs hence the students
enter the workforce as a holistic health expert and
have fundamental job-success skills. ACHS also
provides a comprehensive Alumni network and
Practitioner Directory, and the career center
highlights holistic health-related jobs where students
can search for current openings in their fields.
Lastly, many of a student's assessed projects are useful
in a corporate setting, such as developing employee
corporate wellness programs and personal and
professional development opportunities. Other
assessed skills include, practical coaching assignments
creating a business plan, or lean canvas business
model, or career plan, all of which augment a
graduate's career.

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T
he phrase, “world has become a smaller place”
is true especially in the case of the education
sector. With the introduction to online
education, the perspective towards learning and
pursuing education has completed changed. Now, the
student can study irrespective of their location.
Moreover, the advancement in online education has
helped both the educational institutes as well as the
students. In the case of educational institutes, online
education has helped them to widen their reach.
Resultantly, the online education sector has become
one of the core branch for many educational institutes.
But everyone is not in favor of online education. There
are two schools of thoughts — traditional education
and online education.
Understanding the current needs and requirements of
the students, online education is a more preferable
mode of education. Over the years, many educational
institutes have shifted towards providing online
education whereas some of them are still providing
the amalgamation of both. SOAS is one such institute,
founded in 1916, as the school of Oriental Studies. And
by the year 1938, the school received the title SOAS
and was also established itself as a centre for African
Studies.
Shaping the Current Thinking
In 1941, the school moved to London and since then it
is one of the leading Higher Education institutions in
Europe, specialising in the Asia, Africa, and the Near
and Middle East. It is a remarkable institution with a
vast repository of knowledge and expertise in the
specialist regions. It is uniquely placed to inform and
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shape current thinking about the economic, political,
cultural, security, and religious challenges of the
world.
SOAS has an expanded library which is designed by
the architect Sir Denys Lasdun and was opened in
1973. This national resource houses more than 1.5
million items. The programmes are taught by
respected academics engaged in fieldwork and
research which influences government policy and the
lives of individuals across the globe. SOAS scholars
grapple with the pressing issues confronting two-
thirds of humankind today: democracy, development,
economy, finance, public and corporate policy, human
rights, migration, identity, legal systems, poverty,
religion, and social change.
Offering Flexible Programs
SOAS continues to maintain its position as the major
national centre for the study of programmes
concerned with Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. New
teaching posts have been established, student
numbers have increased and the School's status as a
leading research institution has been enhanced. The
School is structured academically into five schools, ten
departments, and five centres. SOAS students benefit
from the wide range of professional and academic
links that SOAS has formed with governments,
businesses, NGOs, and other organizations, creating a
global network of research and enterprise. Every year
it delivers programmes to over 2500 students living
and working around the world, in over 160 countries.
With a modular design, SOAS online and distance
learning degrees offer the flexibility to fit postgraduate
level studies around professional and personal
commitments.

Development, Environment, and Policy

Students undertake research and postgraduate

teaching in the fields of agricultural economics, rural
development, environmental economics and
management, poverty reduction, sustainability,
climate change, and development.
Ÿ MSc/PGDip/PGCert Climate Change and
Development
Ÿ MSc/PGDip/PGCert Sustainable Development

Development Studies

This program creates an intellectually engaged and

challenging space across the many branches of
international development and humanitarianism that
make up Development Studies (including political
economy, globalization, migration and displacement,
conflict, humanitarian action, labour, political
ecology, and aid and institutions to name a few).

Ÿ MSc Humanitarian Action

Ÿ MSc International Development

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 Financial and Management Studies

The programmes are designed to give students a

strong academic foundation that will underpin
their professional skills. Employers value
programmes that are specialized and targeted on
the issues that matter to their business.
Ÿ Individual Professional Awards
Ÿ MSc Finance and Financial Law
Ÿ MSc Finance (Major: Banking)
Ÿ MSc Finance (Major: Economic Policy)
Ÿ MSc Finance (Major: Financial Sector
Management)
Ÿ MSc Finance (Major: Quantitative Finance)
Ÿ MSc International Business Administration
Ÿ MSc Public Financial Management
NOTE TO THE Ÿ MSc Public Policy and Management
STUDENTS Ÿ PG Diplomas and PG Certificates also
available

International Studies and Diplomacy

We are all students of
lifelong learning. We see
The program aims to deliver cross-disciplinary
teaching and learning that combines an
continued growth and understanding of key concepts, theories, and
debates with effective practical skills training.
welcome chances to partner Ÿ MA Global Diplomacy
Ÿ MA Global Diplomacy: MENA
and grow with universities Ÿ MA Global Diplomacy: South Asia
Ÿ MA Muslim Minorities in a Global Context
across the world. Ÿ MA Global Security and Strategy
Ÿ MSc Global Corporations and Policy
Ÿ MSc Global Energy and Climate Policy
Ÿ MSc Global Public Policy

MOOCs

The free Mass Open Online Courses attract

hundreds of thousands of students and give a
taste of full Master's experience. These are
general level courses that require only one to two
hours of commitment each week.
Ÿ Global Diplomacy – Diplomacy in the Modern
World
Ÿ Global Diplomacy – The United Nations in the
World
Ÿ Global Energy and Climate Policy
Ÿ Risk Management in the Global Economy
Ÿ Understanding Research Methods
Ÿ Understanding Public Financial Management:
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An Educator Being A New Evolution
Dr. Dan Plesch, Director, Centre for
International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS
read history at Nottingham and obtained professional
qualifications in social work and public administration
from Bristol in 1979 and 1980, he then worked for non-
governmental organizations focused on the abolition of
nuclear weapons. In 1986, he founded the British
American Security Information Council (BASIC) and
directed it from Washington DC until 2001, then he
became the Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United
Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies in
London. His academic posts since 1988 include
Honorary Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of
Peace Studies at Bradford University, Research Associate
at Birkbeck College, University of London and Senior
Visiting Research Fellow at Keele University.
Outside academia, he has acted as consultant and
advisor to the UK and US governments, the BBC, CNN,
Sky News, Kroll Security International, Oxfam, the
Foreign Policy Centre, and Greenpeace. He was the
independent advisor to the UK government's department
of constitutional affairs on the implementation of the
Freedom of Information Act. Dan says, “Online
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education is a natural evolution of learning. Today,
we live online for much of our lives and so too is
education.”
Achieving Notable Promotions And
Advancement
Both traditional education and online education are
excellent at SOAS. Students who want the campus
experience of London in its educational and cultural
heartland can opt for traditional education. Those
students who want to combine study with where they
live and work and manage domestic commitment can
choose the latest effective online teaching and
learning. Online education has helped many students
with outstanding progression at work due to the
Online degrees, achieving notable promotions, new
job roles and enhanced knowledge across a range of
current topics and theories. Along with helping
students academically, it is important to inculcate
some social as well as cultural responsibilities in them.
At SOAS, these social and cultural awareness are an
instinctive part of learning and life which is
underpinned by its core values.
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I n a world where nearly everything is ‘tech’ driven, this is the beginning
of a revolution where things are moving extremely fast. The way
students best learn won’t change in the next ten years, but the tools
they use will. Technology and education are evolving together and
transforming each other. The exponential growth of technology has been
redefining the learning experience, since the past century. For instance,
technology has shifted classroom teachings into the mobile screens. Many
profit/non-profit companies are planning to construct lots of low-cost
universities, from data-driven classrooms to professors teaching for free
online such as Udacity—rephrasing higher education definition for the
future tech jobs.

Blended learning, an integration to boost knowledge

Previously, it was impossible for a professor to teach hundreds of thousands

of students at a same time but now it is happening thanks to digitalization.
The younger generations are glued to their smartphones from morning to
night – learning through social media and informative websites. The
combination of both formal (traditional classrooms) and non-formal (online
courses) methodologies represents a model that boosts learning and delivers
business.

Everybody cannot go to Stanford University or Harvard Business School,

but now truly high-quality materials can be made available at very low cost
to anybody whoever they are, whatever their class, and whatever their race.
This brings the democratization of education to an extent that's never been
true before in human history.

The sudden burst of these massively open online courses is one of the most
visible ways through which digital technologies are reshaping colleges in
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classrooms to people down the block and around the
world. Computers are making real bricks and mortars
classrooms more interesting, more effective, and more
affordable.
Online boom just down the road
Currently, a great education is available to a few tens
of thousands of people but there are still millions who
cannot get access even to basic education. Thousands
of universities are capable of scattering good quality
education and reshaping higher education definition,
but they miserably fail when students want to see
demonstrated ROI on their education costs. It’s been a
decade since people are using mobile phones, they
download apps that help them connect with people
and watch YouTube videos to learn how to cook Veg
Shawarma. Yet, when it comes to learning online
courses, they’ve barely scratched the surface of what’s
possible.
An online learning platform like Udacity has made
effective learning possible to millions of students
around the world. Sebastian Thrun, David
Stavens, and Mike Sokolsky created Udacity after
the success of the free online artificial intelligence
class at Stanford where 160,000 people signed up for
that class. Udacity's most classes are made up of a
series of short instructional videos. In a lot of videos,
the instructor writes on the screen with an electronic
pen, “it's a 21st-century chalkboard.”
Where Udacity claims to be a new 21st-century
university, Coursera is a collaboration of 16 long-
established and distinguished names. The group
includes Stanford, Caltech, Princeton, University of
Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania.
Enrolment is free and more than 33 million students
from some 200 countries have already registered.
Coursera offers a wide range of online classes more
than a hundred in business, sciences, mathematics,
and humanities, a true diverse higher education
definition. Coursera’s classes are made up of videotape
lectures that run five or ten minutes to nearly an hour.
EdX: Learning how to improve teaching both
online and face to face
For many people, higher education is becoming
unaffordable because of its increasing cost. To address
this issue, many capable universities are installing
technologies that can raise the quality of education
while lowering costs. Online podcasts, blended
conferences, video/audio tapes, and game-based
learning are some effective methods that many
universities have started practicing.
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For example, Harvard University has already more
than a hundred online classes in its extension school.
And for a decade, MIT has been putting much of its
raw courses where the lectures, notes, and quizzes
along with the $60 million plan to make Harvard and
MIT courses available online for free. Together, they
formed an open-source technology platform, edX.
With this pace, they hope to reach a billion people
around the world.
“This is the era of disruption for education. Things
are being disrupted in a big way and things are
moving extremely, extremely fast. The time is right
because computing technologies are finally here. The
internet is available in large parts of the world.
Computers and tablets have become relatively low
cost so people around the world customarily have one
of these devices and have a connection over the
internet,” says Anant Agarwal, MIT Computer
Scientist, the former president of edX. EdX wants to
reach a lot of people with free education but Agarwal
says that an equally important mission is; learning
how to improve teaching both online and face to face.
We have not applied computing technologies to
education in a big consulting way. We still do lectures
in lots of classrooms with chalkboards and things of a
sort. We really haven't entirely much dramatic
progress. We use PowerPoint as one of the bigger
advancements over the past many decades.
Because online education platforms can capture and
store a user’s every word and mouse click, edX
promises to be a massive deeply granular experiment
to help people live, study, and learn with computer
technology.
Miami University of Ohio projecting a computer
display on the wall, it’s called a learning dashboard. It
shows students how well they did with an online
assignment ‘do the night before.’ The software scores
how each student is learning and what concepts they
are struggling with. This data-driven classroom
approach produces deeper learning in less time than
the standard textbook learning format.
Conclusion: Online education resulted in giving a
greater ROI than traditional classroom learning. The
courses are also designed for Gen Z to fit 85% of jobs
that will exist in 2030. It's been observed that 20-30%
of the entire student body comes to the lecture is
surprisingly often times at the end of a course. They
are just not going to lectures and so by making
available online videos with interaction built into that,
colleges can now make learning available at any place,
at any time to anyone. This can significantly improve
the whole learning experience for either on-campus
students or students worldwide.
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Reimagining Hospitality Education
Innovative Online Education
T he hospitality industry is in constant lux state.
New trends are popping up every now and then
resulting in the students to must have a strong
educational background in this industry. In order to
survive, they need irst-hand industry experience along
with theoretical knowledge. In addition to this, they
need to have a passion for service and the desire to
create great customer experiences.
With a distinguished 53-year history, Harrah College of supports continuity and academic integrity by designing
Hospitality - University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV)
has been delivering quality education in the ield of
hospitality management. By teaching the most up-to-
date management theories and practices, the leading
college is helping its graduates stay relevant and
valuable to their organizations. Its goal is to immerse its
students in the art, science, and business of hospitality.
It is prepared to go above and beyond traditional
hospitality programs by staying at the forefront of
industry innovation and demand while providing its
students with the latest skills that will place them at the
top of hiring lists and ensure success in their irst,
second, and third jobs
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A Premier Hospitality Management College
Consistently ranked among the top ive hospitality
programs in the world, Harrah College of Hospitality -
UNLV provides students with the theoretical and
practical foundation they need to succeed in the
competitive hospitality ield. The college believes that
online education can be as effective as a traditional
education if online classes are designed properly. So, it
all online courses under a master template. This model
ensures that course content and learning objectives are
consistent across all “like” courses regardless of who is
teaching the class or the delivery system.
Harrah College of Hospitality - UNLV offers a host of
advanced degree options for those interested in both
traditional and online programs. This includes B.S. in
Hospitality Management, Master of Hospitality
Administration (online), M.S. in Hotel Administration,
Dual MBA/MS in Hotel Administration/Business
Administration, and Ph.D. in Hospitality Administration.
Also, it provides one-on-one support, industry-relevant
research opportunities, and lexibility for students who
are in various stages of their academic
and professional careers.

The premier hospitality management

college also believes that partnering
with industry is key to its students'
success. Therefore, each year it
organizes nearly 600 internships,
welcomes more than 100 national
hospitality brands for recruitment
events, and pairs an average of 175
industry mentors with students because
these crucial relationships help build
careers of its students.

Focusing On Creating Bene icial

Online Courses

For students who are looking for

genuine online courses in hospitality to
enhance their knowledge can opt for
Harrah College of Hospitality – UNLV's
hospitality management programs. Its
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 administration, which has been operating
for over 10 years, is offered totally online.
The university is currently building out its
entire undergraduate program in an
online format to accommodate bachelor's
degree-seeking students in addition to
master's students. Since many students
work full or part time in the online world,
courses are going to be designed in such a
way that real work experience can be
applied to ful ill the realistic components
of a course. It envisions a future in which
a three-credit class could be broken up
into two credits of theory and one credit
of practical experience.

Online Learning Modules

The valuable online institute understands

the demands of the working professionals
today. Therefore, Harrah College of
Hospitality – UNLV has designed a series
of online learning modules for the PGA of
America, for which it serves as the
professional education arm. These
modules are used to teach the latest
theories and practices for PGA
professionals that apply to running a
complex service project like a country
club. Furthermore, these modules are
approximately two hours in length and
broken into six 20-minute units. Each unit
has a reading assignment and after
completing all six units, the student is
required to undertake a cumulative
project that re lects the learning of the six
units.

Instill Cultural and Social

Responsibility in Students

In today's world, cultural and social

responsibility is a hot topic for discussion.
Students need to understand the
importance of this concept. To do so,
Harrah College of Hospitality – UNLV has
incorporated cultural and social
responsibility subjects into numerous
courses, regardless of whether they are
offered on campus or online. Such
elements are also expressed in the

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NOTE TO THE
STUDENTS

To be successful in the
hospitality field, one
needs to not only be
versed in the latest
management thinking,
they also must have a
passion for service and
the desire to create great
customer experiences.

voluntary service hours of its students in support of As dean of one of the top hospitality programs in the
non-pro it organizations, scholarship fundraisers, and world, Stowe's responsibility is to be vigilant about the
sustainability programs. future. He says, “I must help build an organization that
not only survives the inevitable changes of the industry
A Seasoned Educator with Extensive Experience but also thrives amidst these changes. This means staying
viable, relevant, and part of a strong, stand-alone
Stowe Shoemaker is the Harrah College of hospitality management program—not a subset of a
Hospitality Dean at UNLV. Prior to earning a PhD at business school.” So, his responsibility now is to ensure
aged 40 from Cornell University, he had spent many that a great hospitality education is available to anyone
years working in the hospitality industry. While working who wants one. Moreover, he hopes that the online
he realized that many of those working in the hospitality education ecosystem continues to evolve— inding new
industry desired more education and a degree from a and inventive ways to be more lexibility, more
reputable institution but were unable to simply quit accessible, and adaptive to an increasingly non-
their jobs and move to a traditional educational traditional student.
institution. He believes that online education is a great
way to ful ill the non-traditional student's needs as well
as giving our conventional students the opportunity to
merge traditional classes with online learning so that
they can retain their work schedules.

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 E ective Learning
T
oday, there are massively growing numbers
of applicants applying to universities. The
universities in order to try to meet this
increasing demand they increase the number of
admissions. The irony here is, they are increasing
admissions but the admission rates are still
declining because they cannot increase the
admissions at a rate to meet the demand. Not only
there is a massive growth of students entering the
universities, it should theoretically be bigger than
what it is now. So, what can a university do to try to
combat this increase in the student population?
If a university wants to keep the same class sizes
they have to hire more faculty members. However,
it's not a very easy process. They have to hire
people or have to put some type of tenure track in
plan and it's something that they cannot do rapidly
enough to meet the growing student population.
Now, it's interesting to see that they are using
technology (e-learning) to help remedy this issue.
Introducing e-learning to meet massive
student strengths
Throughout history, people have had a good
number of jobs that by now they do not really even
go to a professional to use. They have some apps or
tools that can do it for them. For instance, taxi
drivers are still in business but maybe in 2020,
they will not even be around anymore if a giant
company like Google will make self-driving cars. In
the future, the technologies will take all professions
and try to bring those directly into the hands of
consumers. This drives universities to apply this
into a classroom setting and hopefully replace
professors with some type of technology that brings
education into the hands of the students
themselves.
E-learning innovated with hands down the best
way generations are educating themselves. It's not
only getting more diverse but expanding its reach
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far beyond brick-and-mortar classrooms.
Classrooms once used to be an ordinary
environment is now densely populated with rigid
students who believe this is their only gateway to
get a ticket into the pearly gates of engineering or
medical or any other framed-secured seats.
Factory-like structure to prepare schoolers to get
into the best colleges possible students are
struggling around limited and competitive
education system, now embracing e-learning and
blended learning (classroom and online education).
E-learning is flexible and vast and that's the reason
learners should catch up and inherit this effective
and engaging way. Statistics show that students are
glued-in till the syllabus completes, it's amazing.
One of the refreshing qualities of e-learning is that
it presents all the elements that exist within and
around a student. The reason for the e-learning to
hit every right node is because of its accessibility,
personalized learning, learning flexibility, academic
collaboration, and affordability. It reflects the
genuine representation of several aspects of a
student's life. It ignores the money-making
machines schools and colleges are devoted to, to
identify credible students that can garner their
talents.
Critical success factors of e-learning
E-learning is a result of merging information
technology with education. In a university
environment, there are four groups in the
classification of e-learning critical success factors
(CSFs), instructor, student, information
technology, and university support. Many types of
research identify that technology, instructor, and
previous use of technology from the student's
perspective are the main three CSFs. Factors
described;
Ÿ Technology: ease of access and navigation,
device interface design and level of interaction

Ÿ Instructor: professors attitude towards
students, instructor technical competence and
classroom interaction
Ÿ Student prior IT experience: having a
computer and attitude towards e-learning is
critical to e-learning success.
The CSFs for e-learning in developing countries
like India include motivation toward e-learning,
awareness, and the ability of basic technology, and
good education support. The classroom
environment in these countries can be spelled
through the behavior of an iceberg where lectures
are just on the surface. Now the surface where the
students being exposed to a wide amount of
information but not really diving deep into any of
it. Ironically in the current system, the professor is
just involved in classroom lectures that students
can learn from the internet.
But the place where the professor's expertise would
be extra useful is the place of addressing those
learning breakdowns.
Technological related factors of e-learning
Online courses are trying to use technology to
hopefully simulate one-on-one instruction. By
putting professor trained devices it became
possible to help students learn. Over the span of
the past few years users had out the surge of all
different platforms such as, udemy, udacity,
coursera, edx, and many more that helped them
create courses on. And people have created courses
that teach biology, computer science, math, history,
and/or any topic that one wants to learn.
Moreover, technological related aspects polish and
complete the essentials to make e-learning more
interesting. The relevant references are:
Ÿ Ease of Access: Ease of access refers to the
easy access and usability of the website for
students. Through this feature, students are able
to log into the system at any time accessing the
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flexibility offered by the website. This ease
encourages students to visit and learn without
facing any second thought.
Ÿ Interface Design: The visual structure and
design aspects are important because they make
online courses appealing and well-structured.
The screen design and visual technology
interface are critical to the success of e-learning.
These aspects are vital facets of the user
experience.
Ÿ
Ÿ Level of Interaction: Whether its classroom
or virtual classroom the interactive
communication plays a significant role to create
a healthy learning environment. In e-learning,
the instructor promotes a highly interactive
virtual classroom environment where each
student learns around his/her comfort.
Ÿ System Quality: System quality offers
availability, ease of use, reliability, and response
time. It favors students' satisfaction with web-
based learning, higher learning, personalization,
and interactivity. Requires quality internet
connectivity for successful learning experience.
Ÿ Service Quality: When a student finds the
service is positive as it should be. Service quality
increases the perceived ease of use. Positive
feedback and other encourages responses.
E-learning is also helping working professionals
gain access to full degree programs and/or specific
courses and allowing underprivileged people to
access education who previously didn't have any. It
is indeed an enjoyable experience because people
want to learn and e-learning makes it fun to learn.
The beauty of having this facility is that learners
from all around the world with all different
backgrounds are able to help each other. It's a great
time investment. It does pay off.
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