"Some people need to study on campus, in a class, with a group. This is often the case of undergraduate students who may lack the ability to study effetively on their own.
But others feel that they are wasting their time in the classroom - that they learn best with a book or by listening to a lecture on their way to work.
"Know thyself" is a critical concept when it comes to the important decision to obtain a degree through distance learning. It is flexible, it is fast, it is much cheaper - but it may not be for everyone".
"To question all things; - never to turn away from any difficulty; to accept no doctrine either from ourselves or from other people without a rigid scrutiny by negative criticism; letting no fallacy, no incoherence, or confusion of thought step by unperceived; above all to insist upon having the meaning of a word clearly understood before using it. and the meaning of a proposition before assenting to it; - these are the lessons we learn from the ancient dialecticians."
John Stuart Mill, Inaugural address as Rector, University of St. Andrews
1 February 1867
At EUCLID, our goal is to offer students the tools need to acquire critical knowledge and skills as fast as possible, and to make sure that your academic progress is matched with proper and documented credits.
You may have heard that distance learning is not for everyone. There is some truth to this statement: distance learning lacks intense student interaction, immediate contact with faculty and it often requires being a self-motivated reader. Indeed, EUCLID is primarily a distance learning framework, which means that if the experience of campus life and peer support is essential, you should consider traditional studies, at least for part of your program.
Remember that the 'downside' of intensive distance programs that rely on self-discipline and self-learning abilities is that you may have more limited access to faculty and peers. This is not a problem for self-motivated students, but some subjects (especially in the field of science) may require 'outside help'. For this reason, EUCLID accepts credits from other governmental , public or accredited institutions, and may even recommend that certain difficult classes be taken in a classroom environment.
THE EUCLID APPROACH TO EXCEPTIONAL DISTANCE LEARNING
EUCLID offers what we think is the most varied, most dynamic, most enjoyable approach to distance academic learning. In this section, we will discuss the supports or courseware being used, as well as the actual methods of learning, interaction and evaluation.
Our goal is to achieve the following:
use campus recorded lectures / courses by the world's best professors provide a strong foundation in critical thinking in general culture (great books, world religions) ensure that essential IT skills (Word Templates, Internet, basic graphics design) are acquired document all courses and update all syllabi every year help develop professional paper/article writing skills prepare students for global engagement and realistic career goals
In order to help our students achieve these goals, our syllabi/course database includes a large selection of curriculum-documented courses delivered by various means: lectures on VHS/ DVD, MP3s, as well as textbook-based mentor-directed self-studies.
To make this possible, EUCLID builds on the products and services offered by the following resources:
The Teaching Company (TT) is a key courseware resource for life-long learners, both independent and school-affiliated. EUCLID incorporates a large number of TT courses as required courseware. These DVDs allow students to experience top-rated US professors without having to incur the expense of attending an physical Ivy League institution. It should be said that in many campuses around the world, actual teaching is often delivered by unmotivated adjunt faculty whose teaching skills (and enthusiasm) may not be satisfactory. For this reason, relying on TT courses provides the students with the assurance of accurate, standard, and engaging lectures.
[Left: a short sample from Pr. Timothy Taylor's lectures on Economics]
(c) Teaching Company|
http://www.teach12.com
EUCLID/IOSD, an accredited observer at the World Intellectual Property Organization (www.wipo.int) supports intellectual property rights and discourages all forms of piracy and copyright infringement.
The Teaching Company brings engaging professors into your home or car through courses on DVD, audio CD, and other formats. Since 1990, great teachers from the Ivy League, Stanford, Georgetown, and other leading colleges and universities have crafted over 200 courses for lifelong learners. The Teaching Company does not offer post-course grading and credits - but Euclid does.
In additional to Teaching Company recordings, EUCLID relies on standard textbooks {e.g. "Diplomacy Theory and Practice (Berridge)" + "Modern Diplomacy" (Barston)"} for its courses. This policy ensures program comparison and equivalencies.
In this regard, EUCLID often uses textbooks that can be electronically access on the SafariX Textbooks Online, a joint venture between the industry's leading technical publishers, O'Reilly Media, Inc., and The Pearson Technology Group.
For programming and IT professionals, general knowledge workers and business professionals, SafariX offers a series of premium e-reference libraries where users can search thousands of books simultaneously. Users can pinpoint exactly the answer they need in a matter of seconds. Unlike an online bookstore, Safari houses the entire, cover-to-cover digital version of books from O'Reilly Media, Inc. and Pearson's many imprints: Addison Wesley Professional, Adobe Press, Cisco Press, Macromedia Press, New Riders, Peachpit Press, Prentice Hall PTR, Sun Microsystems, Que and Sams. Euclid uses SafariX for those who learn faster with a textbook driven approach.
EUCLID faculty members, with the support of volunteer students and interns, are always looking for relevant educational or professional webcasts that may be added to the course requirements and in many cases incorporated into the syllabi. The International Monetary Fund webcasts (coupled with the regular World Economic Outlook and Global Financial Stability Reports) as well as the public lectures held at the London School of Economics are integrated in a number of courses.
EUCLID courses use up-to-date webcasts from leading institutions whose goal is precisely to empower other institutions of higher learning and to prepare future professionals and leader.
[Left - a sample webcast by David
Hawley, Senior Advisor, External
Relations Department, IMF]
[Above - EUCLID/EUROSTATE syllabi incorporate many LSE podcasts, as in EUR-701]
For most of its IT/MIS programs, EUCLID has retained online and CD-bases award-winning. Both VTC and TrainSignal offer high quality courses, labs and certification preparation solutions that enable EUCLID to deliver best-of-class IT training to its international student body, at very low cost.
The EUCLID course database leverages the extension computer-based training resources offered by CBT Planet. Their course catalog covers all aspects of IT knowledge as well as MBA type skills and soft-skills.
The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) was established in 1965 as an autonomous body within the United Nations. Our programs incorporate several UNITAR courses for the Master's Degree in Diplomacy and International Affairs.
Each degree programs consists of a recommended sequence of required and elective credit-granting courses. The sequences constitutes the backbone of the student's degree Roadmap. The student is guided step by step and track his or her advancement with a progress chart (below).
Credits are granted when the course requirements and assignments are achieved. A moderate to fast learner can normally complete a 2 credit course in 2-5 weeks, especially if her or she used commuting time to listen to audio classes.
Euclid's study requirements (on any format) are carefully selected to offer the best delivery of information on the subject at hand. In all fields, reference works are privileged over controversial or complex publications.
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