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The Value of Graduate Distance Learning
Despite more than 350 independent studies showing that distance learning education is equal, if not superior, to traditional classroom education in quality and academic outcomes, doubts about online college degrees still linger in some quarters. A look at the facts about online education should dispel any such doubts, especially concerning graduate distance learning.
Structured for Optimal Learning
Adults learn differently than children. Countless studies over the last 30 years have documented numerous fundamental differences in the ways adults and children learn, but they can be summed up this way: Children are taught; adults learn. This is a key factor in graduate distance learning.
Graduate students are adults. This factor alone makes online degrees especially well suited for graduate students, because adults tend to take a more independent approach to learning, are self-directed and self-disciplined in their studies, and learn as much from peer groups as from teachers. These traits also aptly describe graduate distance learning.
The graduate distance learning programs available from IWU are specifically tailored to the ways adults learn best. Our online college classes use a combination of traditional textbooks and links to online resource materials to provide the core academic content. They build on this base of knowledge through interactive discussions between the students, in which a sharing of their diverse views and experiences enriches the content. And this entire graduate distance learning process is guided by eminently qualified facilitators who are both subject matter experts and active practitioners in their fields of expertise. This fusion of content, collaboration, and facilitation produces a graduate distance learning environment based precisely on the ideal learning model for adults.
The World Changer Initiative
IWU's World Changer initiative makes our distance learning degrees unique among all graduate distance learning programs available today. Our curriculum goes beyond merely developing academic knowledge and skills in your chosen discipline, and specifically challenges our students to become people of substantial influence - people who will make a difference in their workplace, home, and community.
Graduate Distance Learning Degrees at IWU
IWU currently offers four graduate degrees online as well as one graduate licensure program: the Masters of Business Administration (MBA), Masters of Science in Management (MSM), Masters of Science in Nursing (MSN), Master of Education (M.Ed.), and the Special Education licensure program.
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