Quality Education
Does the type of school you attended affect your performance?
Although personal attributes are almost certainly important, some universities might be better than others at developing students’ knowledge and skills. This is hard to measure objectively, but universities differ in student-staff ratios and student satisfaction with teaching. Different universities have different modes of teaching and they have their own perspective on how a student can grasp things. How a lecturer delivers information has a great magnitude on a person’s overall performance. Some lecturers will emphasize on group works or individual learning, others will prefer to teach everything. Qualifications of teaching staff are found to be one of the most important factors affecting the perception of education quality.
The administration system will also affect the quality of education a student receives from a university. The management of the school ensures that lecturers provide quality education and will be at their necks each time a complain arises from the students. It ensures that students have enough resources when embarking in their studies .The management also is ‘eyes’ on the student performance and discontinuation of student who disregard their performance will be a common phenomenon. A school with strict administration will help a student maintain focus and take their studies with much caution and much importance.
The people you associate with also affect your performance. In a way every person you meet in life influences you in one way or another. They will affect either negatively or positively. People who have the same goals with you will tend to be a motivational gear and will contribute to how much you focus on your studies. On the other hand, people who are not optimistic in life will tend to drag you and make you lose your focus. As they commonly say “birds of the same feathers flock together. Some people will change your perspective of life and how you normally do things and add your drive in life.
Or it could be that, on average, the student experience is fairly similar between universities, but employers believe, rightly or wrongly, that graduates from some universities are better and pay a higher salary accordingly. In other words, employers may take degrees from certain types of university as a signal of ability and talent. A university education is often seen as a reliable pathway to a good career and a comfortable life, but this pathway also seems to be crumbling with ongoing weakness in the job market.
In order to provide ‘quality’ of higher education, quality assurance is necessary. In this article, quality is defined as ‘fitness for purpose’ and quality assurance is defined as ‘those systems, procedures, processes and actions intended to lead to the achievement, maintenance, monitoring and enhancement of quality’
Reasons as to why you should opt for online universities
Flexibility
Student’s work where and when they choose to fit in with jobs, families and other commitments. Forget about attending classes for hours, sitting in an uncomfortable chair, and suffering from back pain by the end of the day. You will not be bound to physical class session when you opt for online education. All lectures and needed materials are provided via online platforms, so you’ll easily access them from the comfort of your home. You will not take public transport to get to campus, you won’t have to spend money on gas for your car, and you won’t have to get up early to get dressed for class… the list of conveniences goes on and on.
You can learn whatever you want!
You can pick the program of your dreams in traditional education, too, but that would involve traveling away from home, living in a completely unknown city, and struggling in an extremely competitive learning environment. With online education, you can take any program or course present in traditional four-year universities.
Constant Access to All Previous Lectures and Materials
Maybe you’re a fast note taker with a killer memory, and anything a professor says in a lecture automatically goes into your vault, forever. Probably not, though. Fortunately, with online courses, there is a permanent record of all the discussions that happen in class; professors’ lectures are accessible in video or text formats, your assignments can all be downloaded and re-downloaded, and it is generally very easy for you to access any previous content from your classes. That means if you miss out on a session, or you aren’t great at picking out important points in a long lecture, you can always go back and review! This is one of the absolute biggest benefits of online classes versus classroom lectures
Work At Your Own Pace
Most schools advertise the fact that you can work on your own schedule, even in your pajamas, but it isn’t just about scheduling school before the kids wake up or after you come home from your day job. At an online university, you have more flexibility to work at your own pace. So, even if you can only devote a limited amount of time to your schoolwork, you can still get your degree. You choose the number of classes you’re taking at a time, and you can even choose between colleges with different schedules baked right in. Some schools use traditional fall and spring semesters, but some use trimesters or quarters, or customized “block schedules” where each course takes only four or six weeks to complete. If making your own schedule is important to you, then it is likely that there’s an online college that has what you need.
Self-discipline and responsibility
Who says that having to be more self-disciplined is a disadvantage? It is true that studying online requires more self-motivation and time-management skills, because you will spend a lot of time on your own without someone physically close to keep you focused on deadlines. Look at it this way: your online course will not only teach you geology or poetry, it will also help you become more self-motivated, traits that will make you stand out in the workplace and beyond. It will look great on your résumé.
