Free Things You May Or May Not Know About

In my opinion and I am sure the opinion of many of you, the best price for anything is free. While we can not get everything that we want and need for free, it is nice to know that sometimes we do get a break. Today, as I was perusing the interesting information on Yahoo! Finance, I came across Farnoosh Torabi’s list of some great things that won’t cost you anything. Some of the things on the list were not surprising to me, but some of them were things that I had not heard about. In the “already knew about … Continue reading

Types of Distance Learning Education

Distance learning or distance education is sometimes also considered home schooling. And while the two can overlap, they are really two different things. Usually home schooling is considered as instruction at home with a parent or tutor(s) and not associated with a school. With distance education, there is usually an outside instructor (as part of a formal school) that gives lessons, grades assignments and tests and sometimes interacts real time with a student, depending on the type of distance learning education course. This is the teacher mediated option (TMO), although the independent study option (ISO) is also considered distance learning. … Continue reading