One of the most common struggles faced by distance learners everywhere is isolation: the feeling that You’re alone in your studies. Often, It’s nice just to have someone in a similar program or situation to talk to, and That’s where student clubs can help. According to the AUSU website, ?outside of education, one of the… Read more »
In my last article I described how Israeli settlers overcame the dichotomy of school smart/life smart by forming communal farms known as kibbutzim. In the lands of Palestine, which are currently occupied to varying extents by the state of Israel, education has taken a different turn. Perhaps nowhere else can postmodern social theory be better… Read more »
?Resistance to oppression is often based on a love that leads us to value ourselves, and leads us to hope for more than the established cultural system is willing to grant … Love for others leads us to accept accountability (in contrast to feeling guilt) and motivates our search for ways to end our complicity… Read more »
Student: DeAnne Csada Although distance learning is flexible enough to suit any lifestyle, That’s not sufficient for success. As recent Bachelor of Administration (Health Studies) graduate DeAnne Csada discovered, flexibility on the student’s part is also required. Here, the mother of four discusses how studying led her to change her parenting style. She also gives… Read more »
AU’s Bachelor of General Studies degree is ?one of the most popular programs at Athabasca University,? according to the AU calendar. This three-year, 90-credit degree ?provides a framework of individualized study within an Arts and Science or Applied Studies designation that offers students the freedom to choose courses to meet career or educational goals.? It… Read more »
?Amir Ali est l?un des plus talentueux violonistes du monde Arabe.? Haj Youness, virtuoso oud player and Moroccan cultural ambassador to the United States World-Spanning Career For many years Moroccan-born Amir Ali represented Morocco with his band Mo? Rockin? in the Morocco Pavilion at The Epcot Centre in Walt Disney World in Florida and has… Read more »
A.T.B. is an award-winning Moroccan-born blogger who writes one of the net’s most insightful blogs on Morocco: A Morroccan About the World Around Him. A.T.B. diligently disseminates relevant information to the English-speaking world regarding the struggles of a region where human rights are upheld in theory but where exercises of these rights are sometimes violently… Read more »
Student: Emily Hines ?I’m intrigued by the people drawn to Athabasca,? says AU student Emily Hines. She adds, ?It’s usually people who are willing to think outside the box.? Emily, now in her fourth year of the Bachelor of Arts in French program, is herself a good example of a creative learner. She took advantage… Read more »
GERM 306 is a senior, three-credit course offered by AU’s Centre for Language and Literature (CLL). It ?teaches reading strategies for understanding a German text,? and allows students to ?learn the fundamentals of German grammar . . . and how to decipher the meaning of a text.? GERM 306 has no prerequisites. ?While courses in… Read more »
The concept of ?school smart? as compared to ?life smart? permeates every corner of society and the schooling that takes place within it. From elementary school onward, students feel a conflict between what they will actually use in the ?real world? and what they are being taught in class. It is interesting, then, to find… Read more »