Born and (mostly) raised in Calgary, Karl has been taking courses on and off at AU since 1999. At one point, he changed his major from Computing Science to Computing Science because the new program requirements fit what he’d already taken better. Since then, he switched to English and graduated (w/Great Distinction he likes to add) proving along the way that it is entirely possible to complete an entire AU course within a three week period. If only he had done this at the beginning of the course instead of in the last extension.
This is not something he advises unless you are desperate, masochistic, or, ideally, both.
He is currently the managing editor of The Voice Magazine, where he tries to put his education to use helping other students as they provide content for The Voice
YouTubing AU As I’ve mentioned before, AU’s YouTube channel houses videos from AU Press. But it is also home to a video channel for Athabasca University itself. While the AU Press channel has been dormant for the past two years, AU is continually updating the Athabasca University channel, with content added just last month. The… Read more »
New Branding for AU: Athabasca University’s brand matters to us students, as it is part of how employers will see us once we graduate. But did you know that AU is currently rebranding itself? Only after scouring recent posts at AU Landing did I find an explanation. According to the Landing site, ?Brand is not… Read more »
Most of us are too busy to spend too much time poking around the Athabasca University website. Usually we glimpse only the front page as we log into MyAU in search of the important stuff like our grades, extension registrations, and maybe the Library. However, AU has a lot more dynamic content?including many student resources?that… Read more »
This review first appeared March 11, 2011, in issue 1910. More than half of all North Americans believe that one day the Second Coming will occur, signalling the end of the world. About 20 per cent of American Christians believe it will happen in their lifetime. And then there are those of us who don’t… Read more »
More than half of all North Americans believe that one day the Second Coming will occur, signalling the end of the world. About 20 per cent of American Christians believe it will happen in their lifetime. And then there are those of us who don’t expect we’ll get the warning. From super-volcanoes to asteroid extinction,… Read more »
Stone Sour: Audio Secrecy Roadrunner Records (2010) Formed initially in 1992, metal quintet Stone Sour performed primarily across the bar scene of Des Moines, Iowa, for five years before temporarily breaking up as two of its members went on to a little band known as Slipknot. After reforming back in 2002, Stone Sour released two… Read more »
Mount Royal Granting Nursing Degrees Athabasca University has successfully helped another college to begin delivering full degree programs. This week, the Honourable Doug Horner, Minister of Advanced Education and Technology for Alberta, announced that Mount Royal College has been granted the ability to award four year nursing degrees (1). Previously, Mount Royal did not have… Read more »
Statistics Canada: Telling Us What We Already Know Statistics Canada (2006) has recently released a report stating that very few students rely on a single source of funding for their education. Specifically, it reports that students in the relatively more expensive programs do not rely solely on student loans to cover the cost of these… Read more »
Federal Update Welcome back. I’ve taken a long break to try to recharge my batteries. During the time period there have been a lot of changes, so let’s run through them quickly. In January of this year, the Conservatives were elected with the smallest minority government in the history of the Canadian House of Commons…. Read more »
Athabasca University behind the Times Once again, it seems Athabasca University (AU), supposedly the premiere home of distance education, is caught having to play catch-up in the very field it supposedly specializes in. Early in December, the provincial government of Alberta announced that NAIT was training welder and electrician apprentices through videoconferencing — something that… Read more »