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Just as stress increases as life-change events accumulate the motivation to cope with change through engagement in a learning experience increases" for the individual (Zemke & Zemke 1984).
Money or enhancing one's salary is a fairly obvious, but nonetheless important reason workers commonly cite for going back to school. Obtaining a higher-level degree often results in better pay, better promotion prospects, and less of a likelihood of being let go during tough economic times. This is one reason workers with managerial aspirations often get their MBA after several years in the working world. A small business owner wishing to expand his or her business may also go back to school to get an MBA, to ensure that he or she has the skills to fully capitalize upon the potential of the enterprise he or she created.
A interrelated reason to the desire for more money is that, quite simply, many workers go back to school 'because they can' -- because employers may pay some or all of the tuition for an advanced degree, if they feel that the workers' enhanced skills will enhance the worker's value to the organization ("Should you return to college," 2006, Penn State York). Investing in workers increases employee loyalty and skills, and workers are eager to comply as a way of deriving further professional collateral from...
Workers who were lackluster undergraduate or graduate students when young may find themselves infused with a new sense of intellectual purpose and vigor upon returning to the classroom.
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Should you return to college?" (2006). Penn State York: Lancaster Center. Retrieved 30 Aug 2008 at http://www.lancastercenter.psu.edu/studentservices/generalinfo.shtml
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Innovation Abstracts. 4(8) Retrieved 30 Aug 2008 at http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/adults-3.htm
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Back to school considerations for adult learners." (2008). Cliffnotes. Retrieved 30 Aug 2008 at http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/Section/Back-to-School-Considerations-for-Adult-Learners.id-305416,articleId-55301.html
Should you return to college?" (2006). Penn State York: Lancaster Center. Retrieved 30 Aug 2008 at http://www.lancastercenter.psu.edu/studentservices/generalinfo.shtml
Zemke, Ron & Susan Zemke. (9 Mar 1984). "30 Things we know about adult learners."
Innovation Abstracts. 4(8) Retrieved 30 Aug 2008 at http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/adults-3.htm
Compare the costs of different programs. There is a wide variety, and costs are not always related to quality." can say from my own personal experience, education has gained more emphasis than actual work experience. Now, more and more, employers are asking for formal degrees before looking at someone's accomplishments and expertise. Therefore, working people may not prosper without a degree. Online education provides an option to get a degree
The next three categories deal with the lack of information: 4) lack of information about the career decision-making process, itself; 5) lack of information about one's own capabilities, personal traits or interests; 6) lack of information about occupations and what work is involved and the type of work available; and 7) lack of information about ways of obtaining career information. The final three categories deal with the inconsistent information
The shift toward standardized testing has failed to result in a meaningful reduction of high school dropout rates, and students with disabilities continue to be marginalized by the culture of testing in public education (Dynarski et al., 2008). With that said, the needs of students with specific educational challenges are diverse and complex, and the solutions to their needs are not revealed in the results of standardized testing (Crawford &
Philosophy of Education Norma Cunningham I am a nontraditional student and I am returning back to college due to a job loss. I have been given a second chance at obtaining an education. Since I have been attending college, I was accepted into the nursing program, but I turned it down. I did this because I remember my dream has always been to be a math teacher. Everyone knows teachers are not
76). As automation increasingly assumes the more mundane and routine aspects of work of all types, Drucker was visionary in his assessment of how decisions would be made in the years to come. "In the future," said Drucker, "it was possible that all employment would be managerial in nature, and we would then have progressed from a society of labor to a society of management" (Witzel, p. 76). The
Persistence (also called retention) is defined as remaining enrolled in the institution, presumably until degree attainment or completion. Online courses can help students achieve this, because they provide options for learning that were previously not available to them (Drennan, Kennedy, & Pisarski, 2005). Satisfying and rewarding interactions with the formal and informal academic and social systems of the institution lead to greater integration and persistence (Tinto, 1975). However, teachers of