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Looking For Scholarships? Here Are Some Excellent Sites.
July 7, 2015A new semester is fast approaching, as the summer passes its mid-point. This means that students are looking for scholarships again, and there are a lot of unhelpful and misleading websites out there. Here are a few that are truly worth taking a look at! Some of the scholarships featured have due dates that have already passed, but that's no matter, because applying as soon as possible is the best idea when it comes to scholarships--and if you don't get one for this coming semester, you could earn yourself some money for spring.
Gwinnett County Schools Hiring Highest Number of UGA Teaching Grads
July 2, 2015Recently, UGA’s College of Education released a survey to 2014 graduates with a teacher-preparation degree, and found out that 62% of respondents, or 325 graduates, were hired by a Georgia city or county school district. Among these districts, Gwinnett County Public Schools hired 75 first-year teachers from UGA. Fulton…
Cheryl Stanga Took A Chance With Her Online Degree & Found Her Place
July 1, 2015Cheryl Stanga graduated from Emory University in 2008 with a double degree in Political Science and Women's Studies. She graduated right into the midst of the Great Recession. It was not a great time to graduate with liberal arts degrees--even if she had two of them. A lot of her friends were going off to law school and not getting jobs, but she knew that she had to get a job and think about improving or changing her career.
Financing Your Master’s Degree
June 25, 2015When it comes to attaining your master's degree, there are many considerations: time, convenience, cost, etc. The cost aspect can often be a large deterrent to many who desire a master's degree, but what they may fail to consider are the many different avenues that can be taken to finance a master's degree. Below, we will list some options, which are by no means comprehensive, but are a start to acquiring a method for financing your graduate degree.
Online Professor Sally Krisel Speaks Out About Gifted Learners
June 23, 2015In an article recently released by the District Administration, Dr. Sally Krisel, a professor within the online UGA Ed.S. in Educational Psychology, Gifted and Creative Education program, contributed to a discussion about gifted learners and their treatment within the U.S. school system.
This World Traveler Came Back to Her Roots to Pursue Her Online M.Ed.
June 18, 2015Emily Heath LaFon is a UGA graduate student living in Munich, Germany. A native of Georgia, LaFon has been teaching at an international school in Germany for the past four years where she has a classroom of 19 third graders representing 17 nations. When she made the move, she didn’t know…
From Student to Professor, Then Back Again: Dr. Iris Saltiel’s Unusual Journey
June 10, 2015Dr. Iris Saltiel is a dynamic woman who has been teaching online since 1998 at Troy University and Columbus State University. But the switch from professor to student provided a surprising, yet welcome, challenge in the fall of 2014 when she began taking courses online in UGA’s Graduate Certificate…
Guest Blog: Media Producer Stephen Bridges Talks Instructional Media
June 4, 2015By: Stephen Bridges Media Producer, UGA Online One of the greatest challenges of teaching lies in the creation of engaging instruction. The most effective teachers are those who can take their instructional content and present it in such a way that is easy to understand, as well as intriguing and…
Challenges of Pursuing an Online Grad Degree in Education, and Solutions to Help
June 2, 2015According to a 2014 survey by Aslanian Market Research and The Learning House Inc., two out of every nine online graduate students are specializing in education. Even though it is so prevalent, these students still face a lot of challenges. US News & World Report lists these four obstacles and talks about how some students have overcome them. We'd like to tell you how UGA's online degree programs and their structure helps you overcome them.
Online Student Profile: Marissa Munroe, M. Ed in Learning Design and Technology
May 28, 2015Marissa Munroe is completing her first year in the M. Ed Learning Design and Technology online degree program. She is scheduled to graduate after Summer 2016. She is originally from New Jersey, but got her B.A. in English and Psychology at Georgia State