May
29
UC Riverside Extension Offers Virtual Classroom - Earn a Certificate Online
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UC Riverside Extension offers online coursework for certificate programs that include:
- CLAD Through CTEL
- Forensic Nursing
- Legal Nurse Consulting
- Medical Case Management
- Sexual Assault Examination
- Technical Writing
- Turfgrass Management
The different types of online classes you will likely experience include:
Instructor - Led, asynchronous: The instructor leads discussions, answers questions, provides assignments, and grades student work online. Students interact with other students and instructor through online discussions. Live chat sessions offered in some courses.
Self - paced courses: You choose when to start, the times, and pace of your choosing.
Blended/Hybrid Learning: Face-to-Face and online learning are combined. The proportion of face-to-face and online varies from course to course.
Live Webcasts and Archives: This type of online class uses live video and audio. This is interactive and concurrent with a classroom course. It offers the opportunity to observe and have discussions with students online, in the classroom, and instructors. The archival feature allows you to view later if you miss a class.
May
2
Did you ever dream about designing toys, automobiles, electronic gadgets….and more? Maybe you live too far away to pursue your goal of being a industrial designer? Thinking of changing careers and getting a cool job designing the next greatest gadget…but you don’t have the time to go to school? Well, thanks to the internet and technology, you can “attend” one of the popular schools for industrial design. Acadamy of Art University offers an industrial design curriculum online.
The Acadamy of Art University is one of only a handful of universities in the world that offers online schooling for industrial design.
You might wonder about how an individual can take this type of content online. Doesn’t someone participating in industrial design need to build models and other objects that need feedback from the instructors? Good question. However, The Academy of Art University worked through all the issues and their courses guides you through:
* making your own at-home model making studio with quality machine tools
* many photographs are taken and posted online for instructor feedback
* models are sent to the instructors so that the actual physical work can be examined
So stop dreaming. Remember what the famous commercial says……just do it!