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The Most
Valuable Online
COLLEGE
in America
2023

CAPITOL
Technology University
Equipping a Robust Remote
Learning Infrastructure
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I n the vast landscape of American
education, the evolution of online
schooling has become a
transformative force, reshaping the
contours of learning in unprecedented
ways. As we find ourselves at the
intersection of technology and
education, the significance of online
platforms in shaping the academic
journey cannot be overstated.
The rise of online education in the
United States has been nothing short of
a paradigm shift. With the convergence
of cutting-edge technology and
pedagogical innovation, virtual
classrooms have transcended
geographical boundaries, offering
students unparalleled flexibility and
access to a wealth of educational
resources. This edition of The
Knowledge Review delves into the
heartbeat of this revolution, uncovering
the tale of "The Most Valuable
Online College in America 2023."
Digital
Academia
In the pages that follow, we embark on
a journey through the corridors of a
pioneering institution, Capitol
Technology University, that stands at
the forefront of delivering excellence
In a world where the educational
landscape is continually evolving, we
invite you to explore, engage, and be
inspired by the narrative of the most
valuable online college in America. As
in online education. From state-of-the- we embark on this odyssey, let the
art virtual classrooms to a faculty stories within these pages be a guiding
dedicated to fostering a dynamic light, illuminating the path toward a
learning environment, we unveil the future where learning knows no
unique attributes that make Capitol bounds.
Technology University a beacon of
academic prowess. Read on, and may your educational
journey be as boundless as the
This edition serves as a testament to possibilities that technology unfolds.
the resilience and adaptability of
education, showcasing how technology
has not only bridged the gap between Mia Christoph
students and educators but has also -Maria Christopher
elevated the standard of virtual
learning. The narrative unfolds with
stories of students who have found
success in the virtual realm, breaking
down preconceived notions and
proving that the pursuit of knowledge
knows no boundaries.
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Capitol Technology University

for being recognized by

The Knowledge Review Magazine
in an annual listing of

The Most Valuable Online

College in America 2023

for its unwavering commitment to excellence, innovation, and

dedication to providing exceptional online education.

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Prioritizing Practical Learning
Enhancing Economic Education Through
Experiential Learning Table of

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Equipping a Robust Remote
Learning Infrastructure
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Our commitment to helping students
find careers immediately upon gradua on is
one of the ways we set ourselves apart from
other ins tu ons. We have numerous
partnerships with major government
agencies like the NSA, which allow our
students to build career connec ons
with ease.
The Most Valuable Online College in America 2023

T he COVID-19 pandemic
triggered an unprecedented
disruption in education,
compelling institutions to adapt swiftly
to remote learning to ensure the
continuity of education. This crisis
response, however, evolved into a
transformative trend that reshaped
pedagogical approaches, accelerated
the adoption of technology, and
highlighted the importance of equity
and accessibility. The newfound
flexibility and the blending of
traditional and digital learning have
paved the way for a new educational
reality that combines the strengths of

We make sure to hire

faculty members who
not only have brilliant
minds and a passion for
teaching but who have
worked in the industry
and can show students
exactly what future
employers look for.
Our Chargers Assistance
Program and Capitol
Commitment financial
aid programs are
testaments to our
confidence that each
student will graduate
and enter a lucra ve
technology career in
their desired field.
with ease.
various modes of instruction. As the
world moves forward, the lessons
learned from this experience will
continue to shape the future of
education, emphasizing the need for
adaptable and innovative approaches to
teaching and learning.

Online learning institutes have

emerged as a driving force in reshaping
the educational sector. By breaking
down barriers to accessibility, fostering
flexible learning environments,
offering personalized experiences,
providing diverse course offerings,
enabling collaborative learning, and
supporting continuous skill
development, these institutions have
revolutionized the way education is
approached and acquired.

As technology continues to evolve,

online learning is likely to play an even
more significant role in addressing
educational challenges and shaping the
future of learning.

Capitol Technology University has

adapted this innovative way of
teaching and learning efficiently, and in
recent years, it has emerged as a prime
educational institute, making online
learning mainstream.

America’s Premier University

Capitol Technology is the nation’s
premier university for Science,
Technology, Mathematics, and
Engineering (STEM). Founded in 1927
by Eugene Rietzke as a
correspondence school, Capitol has
grown into a thriving educational
institution that offers degrees at both
the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Capitol’s staff of expert educators
made up of industry veterans who have
a pulse on the current trends, culture,
and demands of today’s workforce,
prepare students to not only find a job
but to excel as leaders in their fields.
Its Cyber and Information Security
program is among the best in the
nation having received the 2020 SC
Media Award for America’s Best
Cybersecurity Program.
Capitol’s commitment to helping
students find careers immediately upon
graduation is one of the ways it sets
itself apart from other institutions.
It has numerous partnerships with
major government agencies like the
NSA, which allow students to build
career connections with ease. Capitol
makes sure to hire faculty members
who not only have brilliant minds and
a passion for teaching but who have
worked in the industry and can show
students exactly what future employers
look for. Its Chargers Assistance
Program and Capitol Commitment
financial aid programs are testaments
to its confidence that each student will
graduate and enter a lucrative
technology career in their desired field.
Additionally, Capitol’s programs are
developed based on the current
STEM career industry, and each
subject area was designed to meet the
specific needs of the world’s job
market. From the moment that With a dedicated
students arrive at Capitol as freshmen, Online Learning staff
they are already in training for their
dream careers. who diligently maintain
our infrastructure and a
Providing Robust Remote
Learning Infrastructure
team of world-class
All of Capitol’s educators are industry instructors, Capitol is
professionals who excel in their fields well-equipped to serve
and can guide students to do the same.
Capitol Tech has always provided a students in an
robust remote learning infrastructure to online format.
ensure that all students can complete
their coursework from anywhere and
thrive in their educational experience.
Capitol performs yearly assessments
 Dr. Bradford Sims
President,
Capitol Technology
University
on the effectiveness of these programs
and makes necessary changes to
improve and enhance its offerings.
With a dedicated Online Learning
staff who diligently maintains the
university’s online infrastructure and a
team of world-class instructors,
Capitol is well-equipped to serve
students in an online format.
Making Online Learning
Mainstream
Online students enjoy many of the
same features as traditional
on-campus students. Capitol has a
Career Center with dedicated staff
who are available to meet students by
appointment, either in-person or
virtually, to discuss job readiness,
provide resume guidance, and help
students prepare for interviews. Its
Online Learning staff also provides
technical assistance to virtual students
and ensures that they can access all
required course materials.
Building a Different Brand
Notable achievements and recognitions
of Capitol Technology include:
Ÿ Capitol has a Student Success
Center that offers peer-to-peer
tutoring in a wide variety of subject
areas. This service is available both
on-campus and virtually.
Ÿ Capitol was named on the list of 10
Prominent Colleges in the USA by
the publication CIO Views in 2022.
Ÿ Capitol was featured in
Georgetown University’s
prestigious 2022 ROI rankings list,
which ranks over 4,000 colleges
and universities based on their
return on investment.
Ÿ Capitol was named one of the Most
Military-Supportive Colleges in the
VA Northeast District by
MilitarySupportiveColleges.com
for its educational benefits provided
to military students and their
families, as well as for its
partnership with the Yellow
Ribbon Program.
Ÿ Capitol Tech was designated by
MilitaryFriendly.com as a Gold
Level Military Friendly institution
for several consecutive years for its
services to military students and
their families.
Ÿ Capitol Tech was recognized for
having some of the best online
master’s degree programs by
OnlineMastersDegrees.org based
on qualifiers such as counseling
services, career guidance,
student/faculty ratio, tuition cost,
and more.
Ÿ Capitol Tech was named as one of
the top NCAE- C Public and
Private Four-Year Institutions for
Cyber Bachelor’s Graduates from
2010 to 2020 by the Center for
Security and Emerging
Technology (CSET).
Ÿ Capitol Tech ranked within the top
8% of America's best colleges on
the Forbes "America's Top
Colleges" 2023 list.

Overcoming the Barriers of

Online Education
Online students have both synchronous
and asynchronous learning
opportunities, allowing them the
chance to speak with their instructors
and peers “face-to-face" in the
virtual classroom. Additionally,
instructors employ many group
projects and collaborative activities
amongst the online population to
ensure that they interact with their
peers. Students in several of Capitol’s
doctoral degree programs have the
opportunity to come to campus
annually to participate in the doctoral
residency, where they can meet their
instructors and peers in person.

All of our educators

are industry
professionals who
excel in their fields
and can guide Capitol
students to do the
same.
Online students have the same
resources as in-person students when it
comes to career services. They can
meet with Capitol expert career
advisors virtually for all
career-related guidance. Additionally,
they can visit its online job board,
which offers employment
opportunities. Capitol also hosts a
twice-yearly career conference and
fair, which allows students to network
with professionals and employers in
their desired fields. While the event is
mainly on-campus, there are numerous
employers who attend completely
virtually. Capitol also has a LinkedIn
professional networking group that
students can join in order to
communicate with potential employers,
learn of opportunities, and share
information about their skillsets and
career goals.

Because of Capitol’s long history of

offering both virtual and in-person
education, it has a sophisticated and
thriving online education structure.
All students are able to access its
MyCapitol online portal, which
contains a plethora of resources from
instructors, career services
professionals, and other
key staff members. Its vast library has
a great selection of titles on-campus, as
well as many more available
exclusively online.

Capable Faculty to Ensure

Excellence
All Capitol faculty members not only
have advanced degrees but are also
industry veterans who have actively
worked in the fields that they teach.
Many of its adjuncts teach fully
online and have research and other
projects of their own that they are
passionate about. Dr. William Butler,
the Dean of Academic Affairs and
cybersecurity educator won the SC
Media Award for Best Cyber
Educator in 2020.
Many other faculty members also have
awards and recognition for work they
have done in their field.

Capitol executes yearly assessments

based on the results of student surveys.

Capitol does not have scholarship

options exclusively for online students.
However, it has a very extensive list of
scholarships available for all students,
which offers many different
opportunities for students attending
both in-person and virtually to receive
financial assistance.

A recent review from a sophomore

user on Niche, a college search portal
where Capitol has an active presence,
said the following about its online
program offerings:

“Online classes are very fun to attend.

The professors are easy to reach and
communicate with. Classes are
interactive and often rely on the input
of the students using online features
such as polls, text chat,
and screen sharing.”

Staying Current with

Industry Trends
Capitol’s educators are constantly
evolving in their fields and
participating in professional
development that keeps them current
in the industry. They attend
conferences, trainings, seminars, and
more to stay up to date with trends and
industry best practices. The instructors
use the information they gain from
these events to guide their curriculum
development and teaching methods.
Capitol’s Online Learning staff
similarly stays abreast of industry
trends and makes enhancements to
Capitol’s online education
infrastructure frequently.

Our Online Learning staff also provides
technical assistance to our virtual students
and ensures that they can access all required
course materials. In addi on, Capitol has a
Student Success Center that offers peer-to-
peer tutoring in a wide variety of subject
areas. This service is available both
on-campus and virtually.
Ensuring a Welcoming and
Engaging Teaching Environment
Online learning presents unique
challenges and opportunities for
teachers and students. Teachers must
be creative in providing a welcoming
and engaging teaching environment.
Virtual classrooms can be as engaging
as live classrooms by implementing
best practices for effective online
learning, such as active learning and
the “flipped classroom.”
Disciplines such as computer science
and cybersecurity require competency
building and hands-on experiences,
providing the knowledge and skills to
succeed in their field. Multiple cloud-
based vendors provide vendor-
managed virtual environments for
learning with cutting-edge labs and
real-world scenarios to work through.
These virtual labs and scenarios can be
linked to course objectives and
outcomes, making meaningful
assessment and continuous
improvement possible. For example,
students can write, execute, and test
code or attack and defend virtual
networks with advanced tools using
virtual machines as targets.
Competency-based learning is a
growing movement within academia
and the business world, producing a
more competent workforce with
demonstrable skills.
Capitol has a long list of industry
partnerships and professional
agreements with a diverse range of
organizations and agencies.
It collaborates with these groups to
improve educational offerings and offer
opportunities for students to grow both
professionally and scholastically.
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Economic Education
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E xperiential Learning is a learning
method wherein students 'learn by
doing' and emphasizes reflections
on the experience. It is one of the striking
aspects of education, and this approach
can be applied to all forms of education.
Experiential learning is a modern way of
development and change in the education
system. This engaged learning method
includes hands-on experiences,
internships, undergraduate research, etc.
One of the deciding factors of a country's
growth is its economy, and with new
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economic challenges coming in the way of
people, appropriate education for the
economy can strengthen a generation that
will lead the tomorrow. However, our
traditional methods of teaching economy
to students are, unfortunately, based on
theoretical studies and in-class education.
While the students are exposed to real-
world problems and deal with rising
economic tensions, they must be the jack
of all trades in the economy. For that,
economic education through experiential
learning is becoming a norm today.
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A Classic Indian Economic Class
If we consider a typical situation of an
economy class in any Indian
institution, it includes a teacher
dictating notes, a book reading session
or boredom due to monotonous
lectures, consequently resulting in
distracted students who are hardly
paying attention to the whole situation.
The reason behind this is a need for
more engagement as well as a poor,
less exciting and indifferent classroom
environment. In such a scenario,
economic education can witness an aha
moment if experiential learning is
included.
If there is an absence of activities and
experiences that beat boredom and
drive an economic dialogue among
students, there is less chance of
improving economic education. To
improve this situation and retarded
experiences, it is necessary to facilitate
experiential learning. Beyond the
chalk-and-talk method, an experiential
and non-coercive classroom
environment makes teaching and
learning interesting, participatory and
enjoyable.
Creating Space for Experiential
Learning
Space for experiential learning must be
created by developing an experiential
learning module and teaching students
through live experiences. A study of
experiential economic learning shows
that students described their holiday
experiences as 'enjoyable,' 'refreshing,'
'motivating,' and 'exciting' and gave
them a break from the routine holiday
homework of writing answers or
making bookmarks, etc.
One more approach that can be applied
is team-based learning (TBL) for
student engagement. TBL enables
students to work in a team throughout
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the study and the subject being taught,
working on application-focused team
assessments and individual
assessments. A study shows that TBL
has impacted positively on economic
education, and it should be applied to
introductory courses. Likewise, the
importance of service learning that
includes volunteerism, class field trips,
and field experiments is an effective
teaching pedagogy for increasing
student engagement.
One more experiment in applying
experiential learning in economics is a
curriculum that incorporated a 'create
and run business' scenario and
evaluated their business performance.
The students were allowed to make
actual decisions regarding shopping,
marketing, and selling the products.
Apart from this, the students were
given a chance to discuss the
alternatives for existing businesses.
This initiative covered every possible
type of economy, including demand
and supply, elasticity, consumer
supplies, production and selling cost,
revenue, economic profit, etc.
This experiment showed that
experiential learning must become a
part of education, especially while
learning economy; it is a core
component. As it closes the education-
practical learning gap, it is essential to
arrange such activities in the curricula
of undergraduate and higher-education
economic studies.
Additionally, with the emphasis on
acquiring knowledge from real-world
experiences and applying what they
have learned in the classroom to solve
real-world problems, experiential
learning promotes knowledge retention
and improves students' analytical skills
and critical thinking and problem-
solving abilities.
Updating the Economic Curricula
Incorporating experiential learning in
the curricula across both small and
large undergraduate economic courses
is important. It not only signifies the
importance of research-led teaching to
motivate deep engagement but also
focuses on concrete economic analysis.
This includes continuous assessments
and student motivation for their
educational development.
Absenteeism, being an important factor
that affects studies of the economy,
impacts student experience and,
consequently, academic performance in
economics. For that, it is also
necessary to teach them long-term
effects and an understanding of the
usefulness and applications of the
economy in the real world.
Though the existing studies and
education practices carry an approach
to traditional classroom settings, the
use of technology with a blended
learning approach solves half of the
issues faced by students as they can
learn economics online. While the rest
of the world proceeds with the
traditional method of education in
economics, hands-on experience is
valued.
Final Thought
When the world is moving towards
active learning from boring passive
methods of learning, what matters and
strengthens students is the experiences
that they acquire while learning.
Theoretical knowledge limits the
horizons of students to concepts and
theories of great economists. However,
with these active learning methods that
focus on learning and reflecting
through experiences, economic
education must stay caught up and
incorporate practical learning.
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