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Online Education: A Way Towards Modern Learning In the time of crisis, we all have to focus on more positives. The education sector is one of the positives where we have seen the optimum use of technology.

Though the term online education is not new to all of us, but today, it has definitely added a

huge value to the education sector. Taking hold of the situation, many universities and institutions are moving towards providing more comprehensive online programs to their students. Moreover, they are also providing new programs and a more tailormade curriculum to address the current situation.

Fortunately, in the era of advanced technology, we can access the internet.

The Editorial team at The Education Magazine understands the importance of education and does its continuous evaluations on what's new in the education sector. After hours of discussion, we finally agreed on coming out with our latest magazine issue “The 10 Most Valuable Online Institutes of 2020.” The institutes featured in the magazine are not only handling the current situation with uttermost priority but also preparing

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the students for the future. American College of Healthcare Sciences is featured on the cover of the magazine. The institute aims to offer a clear pathway to professional collegiate training in alternative healing modalities, giving graduates non-invasive and effective tools to treat clients in a truly holistic way.

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After a lot of research and brainstorming, the team of writers has written two interesting articles How Technology Is Rewriting the Higher Education Definition? and E-Learning: Resonates Effective Learning Experience addressing online education and its advantages.

You can read these articles in the respective section Rewriting Education Definition and Effective Learning.

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ver the years, the online delivery of education has continued to grow. The benefits of distance learning have always been the flexibility it offers to the students. Today, online learning has become even more critical when the world faces challenges of overcrowding, congestion, pandemics, and global warming, to name a few. Currently, in the dawn of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are witnessing the incredible benefit online education provides to students and faculty, making education accessible and engaging under any circumstances.

Not just in times of crisis but online education brings together students from around the world who contribute diverse perspectives and for whom education may not otherwise be accessible.

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COVER STORY erving the same purpose, the American College of Healthcare Sciences (ACHS) was founded as a S distance education institution in 1978. Since 1999, ACHS has been providing fully online classes, which profits the institution with over 4 decades of experience in offering education at a distance.

Through its online learning, it allows the student to create their schedule while continuing to further their education. For 40 years, ACHS has provided global access to integrative health modalities training via traditional distance and now online studies. Currently, ACHS students are from 80 different countries and every state within the USA.

The ACHS mission and vision are based on Dorene's beliefs and principles that have stood the test of time: “To provide leadership in holistic health education through comprehensive professional online and oncampus education and high-quality natural products with a commitment to sustainable practices and principles. Through our mission, ACHS fosters competence, professionalism, and cooperation in holistic healthcare and works to preserve and share knowledge in natural medicine. We will achieve our objectives through a set of values that respect our students, customers, employees, suppliers, and community, and to operate with integrity that is deserving of their trust.”

NOTE TO THE STUDENTS “We o er a clear pathway to professional collegiate training in alternative healing modalities, giving graduates non-invasive and e ective tools to treat clients in a truly holistic way.”

Personal Challenges led to the Establishment

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Dorene Petersen, (Founder and President) of American College of Healthcare Sciences, was a working single mother with young children and having to attend on-campus classes for four-years gave her first-hand experience of challenges which led to the establishment of the online learning platform. ACHS was established with a firm commitment to offer the life-changing benefits of integrative health and through the flexibility that distance learning provides.

She later opened additional branches in Australia and Hong Kong. Today, ACHS is housed entirely on the U.S. campus located in Portland, Oregon and the college's satellite campus in Kona, Hawaii.

As an accredited college, ACHS excels in academic rigor and integrity whilst fulfilling the traditional values of natural medicine study. The emerging educational needs are met by fostering engagement with the natural health industry through employer surveys, Program Advisory Council (PACs) and regular attendance at industry conferences. Apart from this, the classes utilize the interactive platform for teaching, and students engage in frequent, substantive interaction with their instructor throughout each of the 7.5 or 15 weeks courses.

ACHS has a variety of online programs, including undergraduate and graduate-level certificates, diplomas and degrees as follows,

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Department of Aromatherapy Under this department, ACHS offers Certificates, Diplomas, Associates, Bachelors, and Master of Science degrees in Aromatherapy. As a professional aromatherapist one can explore working in several industries like perfumery & flavoring, natural products & cosmetics, hospital & clinical settings, private in-person and virtual wellness consulting as well as spa & hospitality.

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Department of Holistic Nutrition With a degree in holistic nutrition, one can empower the clients to make optimal decisions for daily health. This course prepares the individual to

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Department of Herbal Medicine The Herbal Medicine Department at ACHS offers the opportunity to confidently explore nature's most precious plants. During this interactive, engaging, online herbalist training students will learn to recognize and work with a wide range of herbs, many of which are common weeds. Learn to formulate herbal remedies to support wellness, address specific wellness challenges, and enhance the optimal function of the body. All online classes include organic herb sample kits and other study materials to enhance experiential learning.

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Department of Integrative Health Integrative approaches to health and wellness are designed specifically to enhance and optimize a patient's treatment plan. One can learn to employ best practices in aromatherapy, homeopathy, herbalism and holistic nutrition to treat patients in a truly personalized way that enhances healing and vitality.

Cutting-Edge MBA program aimed at Health and Wellness The recently launched ACHS MBA program provides students the opportunity to graduate from a rigorous MBA grounded in principles of sustainability and organizational health and wellness.

Integrative health and wellness professionals graduating from this MBA will have tools to make an even more significant impact on the unprecedented health care challenges, needs, and opportunities facing us today. Students will learn to recognize and make decisions based upon the interconnectedness that exists between organizational actions and the financial, environmental, and social well-being of our complex and dynamic global society. Today more than ever, those leading, managing, and developing business enterprises need an edge. Enroll in this cutting edge MBA and interact with experienced doctoral professors and faculty who focus on the

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development of the skills required to thrive amidst 21st Century challenges. Throughout this program, students use business concepts and sustainability fundamentals to identify the related opportunities, trends, and challenges resulting from an approach to business that considers the financial, environmental, and social impact of organizational decisions. An added benefit is throughout the program, students will develop projects that lead to a portfolio of tangible, outward-facing examples of their skills and capabilities for execution.

Learn Well, Live Well, and Educate Others For several years, ACHS has been named in the top 10 of the 100 Best Green Workplaces in Oregon by the Oregon business magazine. As a virtual campus, ACHS is inherently environmentally friendly and strives to minimize its carbon footprint. The institution operates with a focus on people and the planet both. It is devoted to transparency, accountability, and better the world for others and encourages and inspires all ACHS students to do the same through regular events and gatherings.

ACHS actively encourages student and graduate participation in events such as the eco-challenge, a global initiative that connects the dots between individual action and collective impact to create global change on a human scale. The college also provides

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paid volunteer days so staff can provide support in their community. Furthermore, ACHS fosters social and cultural responsibility amongst students by fostering awareness and demonstrating commitment by contributing to the public good. The institution focuses on charities that support basic human dignity at home and abroad by preventing and addressing hunger, homelessness, and access to education and educational opportunities.

Dorene concluded by saying, “Our programs prioritize holistic living and education about environmentally responsible practices empowering our students and graduates to make ecologically accountable decisions personally and professionally.”

Appreciation for the Outstanding Alumni Students will find the ACHS graduates in leading holistic health organizations and corporations across all industries not just in the US, but worldwide. “Our graduates are as diverse as the roles they play in the industry. What they all have in common is a passion for helping others,” proudly asserts Dorene.

ACHS graduates are passionate about health and wellness and having a positive impact on the communities they serve by improving personal health and wellness and supporting family and friends to making a difference as holistic health practitioners and educators around the world. Each year, ACHS

recognizes a Famous Alumni and Outstanding Graduate to represent the College as part of the Distance Education Accrediting Commission Outstanding Graduate program.

Notable Highlights of ACHS The programs provided by ACHS offer flexibility for working students while retaining academic rigor, encouraging critical thinking, and practical application of theoretical material. Furthermore, the institution encourages and invites employers in the holistic health industry to join its active Program Advisory Councils (PACs). Through this approach, the ACHS PACs goal is to ensure that the programs align with today's employers' needs hence the students enter the workforce as a holistic health expert and have fundamental job-success skills. ACHS also provides a comprehensive Alumni network and Practitioner Directory, and the career center highlights holistic health-related jobs where students can search for current openings in their fields.

Lastly, many of a student's assessed projects are useful in a corporate setting, such as developing employee corporate wellness programs and personal and professional development opportunities. Other assessed skills include, practical coaching assignments creating a business plan, or lean canvas business model, or career plan, all of which augment a graduate's career.

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he phrase, “world has become a smaller place” is true especially in the case of the education sector. With the introduction to online education, the perspective towards learning and pursuing education has completed changed. Now, the student can study irrespective of their location.

Moreover, the advancement in online education has helped both the educational institutes as well as the students. In the case of educational institutes, online education has helped them to widen their reach.

Resultantly, the online education sector has become one of the core branch for many educational institutes.

But everyone is not in favor of online education. There are two schools of thoughts — traditional education and online education.

Understanding the current needs and requirements of the students, online education is a more preferable mode of education. Over the years, many educational institutes have shifted towards providing online education whereas some of them are still providing the amalgamation of both. SOAS is one such institute, founded in 1916, as the school of Oriental Studies. And by the year 1938, the school received the title SOAS and was also established itself as a centre for African Studies.

Shaping the Current Thinking In 1941, the school moved to London and since then it is one of the leading Higher Education institutions in Europe, specialising in the Asia, Africa, and the Near and Middle East. It is a remarkable institution with a vast repository of knowledge and expertise in the specialist regions. It is uniquely placed to inform and

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shape current thinking about the economic, political, cultural, security, and religious challenges of the world.

SOAS has an expanded library which is designed by the architect Sir Denys Lasdun and was opened in 1973. This national resource houses more than 1.5 million items. The programmes are taught by respected academics engaged in fieldwork and research which influences government policy and the lives of individuals across the globe. SOAS scholars grapple with the pressing issues confronting twothirds of humankind today: democracy, development, economy, finance, public and corporate policy, human rights, migration, identity, legal systems, poverty, religion, and social change.

Offering Flexible Programs SOAS continues to maintain its position as the major national centre for the study of programmes concerned with Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. New teaching posts have been established, student numbers have increased and the School's status as a leading research institution has been enhanced. The School is structured academically into five schools, ten departments, and five centres. SOAS students benefit from the wide range of professional and academic links that SOAS has formed with governments, businesses, NGOs, and other organizations, creating a global network of research and enterprise. Every year it delivers programmes to over 2500 students living and working around the world, in over 160 countries.

With a modular design, SOAS online and distance learning degrees offer the flexibility to fit postgraduate

level studies around professional and personal commitments.

Development, Environment, and Policy Students undertake research and postgraduate teaching in the fields of agricultural economics, rural development, environmental economics and management, poverty reduction, sustainability, climate change, and development. Ÿ MSc/PGDip/PGCert Climate Change and Development Ÿ MSc/PGDip/PGCert Sustainable Development Development Studies This program creates an intellectually engaged and challenging space across the many branches of international development and humanitarianism that make up Development Studies (including political economy, globalization, migration and displacement, conflict, humanitarian action, labour, political ecology, and aid and institutions to name a few). Ÿ Ÿ

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NOTE TO THE STUDENTS We are all students of lifelong learning. We see continued growth and welcome chances to partner and grow with universities across the world.

The programmes are designed to give students a strong academic foundation that will underpin their professional skills. Employers value programmes that are specialized and targeted on the issues that matter to their business. Ÿ Individual Professional Awards Ÿ MSc Finance and Financial Law Ÿ MSc Finance (Major: Banking) Ÿ MSc Finance (Major: Economic Policy) Ÿ MSc Finance (Major: Financial Sector Management) Ÿ MSc Finance (Major: Quantitative Finance) Ÿ MSc International Business Administration Ÿ MSc Public Financial Management Ÿ MSc Public Policy and Management Ÿ PG Diplomas and PG Certificates also available International Studies and Diplomacy The program aims to deliver cross-disciplinary teaching and learning that combines an understanding of key concepts, theories, and debates with effective practical skills training. Ÿ MA Global Diplomacy Ÿ MA Global Diplomacy: MENA Ÿ MA Global Diplomacy: South Asia Ÿ MA Muslim Minorities in a Global Context Ÿ MA Global Security and Strategy Ÿ MSc Global Corporations and Policy Ÿ MSc Global Energy and Climate Policy Ÿ MSc Global Public Policy MOOCs The free Mass Open Online Courses attract hundreds of thousands of students and give a taste of full Master's experience. These are general level courses that require only one to two hours of commitment each week. Ÿ Global Diplomacy – Diplomacy in the Modern World Ÿ Global Diplomacy – The United Nations in the World Ÿ Global Energy and Climate Policy Ÿ Risk Management in the Global Economy Ÿ Understanding Research Methods Ÿ Understanding Public Financial Management: How Is Your Money Spent?

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An Educator Being A New Evolution Dr. Dan Plesch, Director, Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS read history at Nottingham and obtained professional qualifications in social work and public administration from Bristol in 1979 and 1980, he then worked for nongovernmental organizations focused on the abolition of nuclear weapons. In 1986, he founded the British American Security Information Council (BASIC) and directed it from Washington DC until 2001, then he became the Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies in London. His academic posts since 1988 include Honorary Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Peace Studies at Bradford University, Research Associate at Birkbeck College, University of London and Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Keele University.

Outside academia, he has acted as consultant and advisor to the UK and US governments, the BBC, CNN, Sky News, Kroll Security International, Oxfam, the Foreign Policy Centre, and Greenpeace. He was the independent advisor to the UK government's department of constitutional affairs on the implementation of the Freedom of Information Act. Dan says, “Online

education is a natural evolution of learning. Today, we live online for much of our lives and so too is education.”

Achieving Notable Promotions And Advancement Both traditional education and online education are excellent at SOAS. Students who want the campus experience of London in its educational and cultural heartland can opt for traditional education. Those students who want to combine study with where they live and work and manage domestic commitment can choose the latest effective online teaching and learning. Online education has helped many students with outstanding progression at work due to the Online degrees, achieving notable promotions, new job roles and enhanced knowledge across a range of current topics and theories. Along with helping students academically, it is important to inculcate some social as well as cultural responsibilities in them.

At SOAS, these social and cultural awareness are an instinctive part of learning and life which is underpinned by its core values.

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n a world where nearly everything is ‘tech’ driven, this is the beginning of a revolution where things are moving extremely fast. The way students best learn won’t change in the next ten years, but the tools they use will. Technology and education are evolving together and transforming each other. The exponential growth of technology has been redefining the learning experience, since the past century. For instance, technology has shifted classroom teachings into the mobile screens. Many profit/non-profit companies are planning to construct lots of low-cost universities, from data-driven classrooms to professors teaching for free online such as Udacity—rephrasing higher education definition for the future tech jobs.

Blended learning, an integration to boost knowledge Previously, it was impossible for a professor to teach hundreds of thousands of students at a same time but now it is happening thanks to digitalization.

The younger generations are glued to their smartphones from morning to night – learning through social media and informative websites. The combination of both formal (traditional classrooms) and non-formal (online courses) methodologies represents a model that boosts learning and delivers business.

Everybody cannot go to Stanford University or Harvard Business School, but now truly high-quality materials can be made available at very low cost to anybody whoever they are, whatever their class, and whatever their race.

This brings the democratization of education to an extent that's never been true before in human history.

The sudden burst of these massively open online courses is one of the most visible ways through which digital technologies are reshaping colleges in universities. Computers and internet connections are delivering college

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Rewriting Education Definition classrooms to people down the block and around the world. Computers are making real bricks and mortars classrooms more interesting, more effective, and more affordable.

Online boom just down the road Currently, a great education is available to a few tens of thousands of people but there are still millions who cannot get access even to basic education. Thousands of universities are capable of scattering good quality education and reshaping higher education definition, but they miserably fail when students want to see demonstrated ROI on their education costs. It’s been a decade since people are using mobile phones, they download apps that help them connect with people and watch YouTube videos to learn how to cook Veg Shawarma. Yet, when it comes to learning online courses, they’ve barely scratched the surface of what’s possible.

An online learning platform like Udacity has made effective learning possible to millions of students around the world. Sebastian Thrun, David Stavens, and Mike Sokolsky created Udacity after the success of the free online artificial intelligence class at Stanford where 160,000 people signed up for that class. Udacity's most classes are made up of a series of short instructional videos. In a lot of videos, the instructor writes on the screen with an electronic pen, “it's a 21st-century chalkboard.”

Where Udacity claims to be a new 21st-century university, Coursera is a collaboration of 16 longestablished and distinguished names. The group includes Stanford, Caltech, Princeton, University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania.

Enrolment is free and more than 33 million students from some 200 countries have already registered.

Coursera offers a wide range of online classes more than a hundred in business, sciences, mathematics, and humanities, a true diverse higher education definition. Coursera’s classes are made up of videotape lectures that run five or ten minutes to nearly an hour.

EdX: Learning how to improve teaching both online and face to face For many people, higher education is becoming unaffordable because of its increasing cost. To address this issue, many capable universities are installing technologies that can raise the quality of education while lowering costs. Online podcasts, blended conferences, video/audio tapes, and game-based learning are some effective methods that many universities have started practicing.

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For example, Harvard University has already more than a hundred online classes in its extension school.

And for a decade, MIT has been putting much of its raw courses where the lectures, notes, and quizzes along with the $60 million plan to make Harvard and MIT courses available online for free. Together, they formed an open-source technology platform, edX. With this pace, they hope to reach a billion people around the world.

“This is the era of disruption for education. Things are being disrupted in a big way and things are moving extremely, extremely fast. The time is right because computing technologies are finally here. The internet is available in large parts of the world.

Computers and tablets have become relatively low cost so people around the world customarily have one of these devices and have a connection over the internet,” says Anant Agarwal, MIT Computer Scientist, the former president of edX. EdX wants to reach a lot of people with free education but Agarwal says that an equally important mission is; learning how to improve teaching both online and face to face.

We have not applied computing technologies to education in a big consulting way. We still do lectures in lots of classrooms with chalkboards and things of a sort. We really haven't entirely much dramatic progress. We use PowerPoint as one of the bigger advancements over the past many decades.

Because online education platforms can capture and store a user’s every word and mouse click, edX promises to be a massive deeply granular experiment to help people live, study, and learn with computer technology.

Miami University of Ohio projecting a computer display on the wall, it’s called a learning dashboard. It shows students how well they did with an online assignment ‘do the night before.’ The software scores how each student is learning and what concepts they are struggling with. This data-driven classroom approach produces deeper learning in less time than the standard textbook learning format.

Conclusion: Online education resulted in giving a greater ROI than traditional classroom learning. The courses are also designed for Gen Z to fit 85% of jobs that will exist in 2030. It's been observed that 20-30% of the entire student body comes to the lecture is surprisingly often times at the end of a course. They are just not going to lectures and so by making available online videos with interaction built into that, colleges can now make learning available at any place, at any time to anyone. This can significantly improve the whole learning experience for either on-campus students or students worldwide.

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he hospitality industry is in constant lux state.

New trends are popping up every now and then resulting in the students to must have a strong educational background in this industry. In order to survive, they need irst-hand industry experience along with theoretical knowledge. In addition to this, they need to have a passion for service and the desire to create great customer experiences.

With a distinguished 53-year history, Harrah College of Hospitality - University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) has been delivering quality education in the ield of hospitality management. By teaching the most up-todate management theories and practices, the leading college is helping its graduates stay relevant and valuable to their organizations. Its goal is to immerse its students in the art, science, and business of hospitality.

It is prepared to go above and beyond traditional hospitality programs by staying at the forefront of industry innovation and demand while providing its students with the latest skills that will place them at the top of hiring lists and ensure success in their irst, second, and third jobs

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A Premier Hospitality Management College Consistently ranked among the top ive hospitality programs in the world, Harrah College of Hospitality UNLV provides students with the theoretical and practical foundation they need to succeed in the competitive hospitality ield. The college believes that online education can be as effective as a traditional education if online classes are designed properly. So, it supports continuity and academic integrity by designing all online courses under a master template. This model ensures that course content and learning objectives are consistent across all “like” courses regardless of who is teaching the class or the delivery system.

Harrah College of Hospitality - UNLV offers a host of advanced degree options for those interested in both traditional and online programs. This includes B.S. in Hospitality Management, Master of Hospitality Administration (online), M.S. in Hotel Administration, Dual MBA/MS in Hotel Administration/Business Administration, and Ph.D. in Hospitality Administration.

Also, it provides one-on-one support, industry-relevant research opportunities, and lexibility for students who

are in various stages of their academic and professional careers.

The premier hospitality management college also believes that partnering with industry is key to its students' success. Therefore, each year it organizes nearly 600 internships, welcomes more than 100 national hospitality brands for recruitment events, and pairs an average of 175 industry mentors with students because these crucial relationships help build careers of its students.

Focusing On Creating Bene icial Online Courses For students who are looking for genuine online courses in hospitality to enhance their knowledge can opt for Harrah College of Hospitality – UNLV's hospitality management programs. Its master's degree in hospitality

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administration, which has been operating for over 10 years, is offered totally online.

The university is currently building out its entire undergraduate program in an online format to accommodate bachelor's degree-seeking students in addition to master's students. Since many students work full or part time in the online world, courses are going to be designed in such a way that real work experience can be applied to ful ill the realistic components of a course. It envisions a future in which a three-credit class could be broken up into two credits of theory and one credit of practical experience.

Online Learning Modules The valuable online institute understands the demands of the working professionals today. Therefore, Harrah College of Hospitality – UNLV has designed a series of online learning modules for the PGA of America, for which it serves as the professional education arm. These modules are used to teach the latest theories and practices for PGA professionals that apply to running a complex service project like a country club. Furthermore, these modules are approximately two hours in length and broken into six 20-minute units. Each unit has a reading assignment and after completing all six units, the student is required to undertake a cumulative project that re lects the learning of the six units.

Instill Cultural and Social Responsibility in Students In today's world, cultural and social responsibility is a hot topic for discussion.

Students need to understand the importance of this concept. To do so, Harrah College of Hospitality – UNLV has incorporated cultural and social responsibility subjects into numerous courses, regardless of whether they are offered on campus or online. Such elements are also expressed in the

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To be successful in the hospitality field, one needs to not only be versed in the latest management thinking, they also must have a passion for service and the desire to create great customer experiences.

voluntary service hours of its students in support of non-pro it organizations, scholarship fundraisers, and sustainability programs.

A Seasoned Educator with Extensive Experience Stowe Shoemaker is the Harrah College of Hospitality Dean at UNLV. Prior to earning a PhD at aged 40 from Cornell University, he had spent many years working in the hospitality industry. While working he realized that many of those working in the hospitality industry desired more education and a degree from a reputable institution but were unable to simply quit their jobs and move to a traditional educational institution. He believes that online education is a great way to ful ill the non-traditional student's needs as well as giving our conventional students the opportunity to merge traditional classes with online learning so that they can retain their work schedules.

As dean of one of the top hospitality programs in the world, Stowe's responsibility is to be vigilant about the future. He says, “I must help build an organization that not only survives the inevitable changes of the industry but also thrives amidst these changes. This means staying viable, relevant, and part of a strong, stand-alone hospitality management program—not a subset of a business school.” So, his responsibility now is to ensure that a great hospitality education is available to anyone who wants one. Moreover, he hopes that the online education ecosystem continues to evolve— inding new and inventive ways to be more lexibility, more accessible, and adaptive to an increasingly nontraditional student.

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oday, there are massively growing numbers of applicants applying to universities. The universities in order to try to meet this increasing demand they increase the number of admissions. The irony here is, they are increasing admissions but the admission rates are still declining because they cannot increase the admissions at a rate to meet the demand. Not only there is a massive growth of students entering the universities, it should theoretically be bigger than what it is now. So, what can a university do to try to combat this increase in the student population?

If a university wants to keep the same class sizes they have to hire more faculty members. However, it's not a very easy process. They have to hire people or have to put some type of tenure track in plan and it's something that they cannot do rapidly enough to meet the growing student population.

Now, it's interesting to see that they are using technology (e-learning) to help remedy this issue.

Introducing e-learning to meet massive student strengths Throughout history, people have had a good number of jobs that by now they do not really even go to a professional to use. They have some apps or tools that can do it for them. For instance, taxi drivers are still in business but maybe in 2020, they will not even be around anymore if a giant company like Google will make self-driving cars. In the future, the technologies will take all professions and try to bring those directly into the hands of consumers. This drives universities to apply this into a classroom setting and hopefully replace professors with some type of technology that brings education into the hands of the students themselves.

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far beyond brick-and-mortar classrooms.

Classrooms once used to be an ordinary environment is now densely populated with rigid students who believe this is their only gateway to get a ticket into the pearly gates of engineering or medical or any other framed-secured seats.

Factory-like structure to prepare schoolers to get into the best colleges possible students are struggling around limited and competitive education system, now embracing e-learning and blended learning (classroom and online education).

E-learning is flexible and vast and that's the reason learners should catch up and inherit this effective and engaging way. Statistics show that students are glued-in till the syllabus completes, it's amazing.

One of the refreshing qualities of e-learning is that it presents all the elements that exist within and around a student. The reason for the e-learning to hit every right node is because of its accessibility, personalized learning, learning flexibility, academic collaboration, and affordability. It reflects the genuine representation of several aspects of a student's life. It ignores the money-making machines schools and colleges are devoted to, to identify credible students that can garner their talents.

Critical success factors of e-learning E-learning is a result of merging information technology with education. In a university environment, there are four groups in the classification of e-learning critical success factors (CSFs), instructor, student, information technology, and university support. Many types of research identify that technology, instructor, and previous use of technology from the student's perspective are the main three CSFs. Factors described; Ÿ

Technology: ease of access and navigation, device interface design and level of interaction

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Instructor: professors attitude towards students, instructor technical competence and classroom interaction Ÿ Student prior IT experience: having a computer and attitude towards e-learning is critical to e-learning success.

flexibility offered by the website. This ease encourages students to visit and learn without facing any second thought.

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The CSFs for e-learning in developing countries like India include motivation toward e-learning, awareness, and the ability of basic technology, and good education support. The classroom environment in these countries can be spelled through the behavior of an iceberg where lectures are just on the surface. Now the surface where the students being exposed to a wide amount of information but not really diving deep into any of it. Ironically in the current system, the professor is just involved in classroom lectures that students can learn from the internet.

But the place where the professor's expertise would be extra useful is the place of addressing those learning breakdowns.

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Ease of Access: Ease of access refers to the easy access and usability of the website for students. Through this feature, students are able to log into the system at any time accessing the

Level of Interaction: Whether its classroom or virtual classroom the interactive communication plays a significant role to create a healthy learning environment. In e-learning, the instructor promotes a highly interactive virtual classroom environment where each student learns around his/her comfort.

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System Quality: System quality offers availability, ease of use, reliability, and response time. It favors students' satisfaction with webbased learning, higher learning, personalization, and interactivity. Requires quality internet connectivity for successful learning experience.

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Service Quality: When a student finds the service is positive as it should be. Service quality increases the perceived ease of use. Positive feedback and other encourages responses.

Technological related factors of e-learning Online courses are trying to use technology to hopefully simulate one-on-one instruction. By putting professor trained devices it became possible to help students learn. Over the span of the past few years users had out the surge of all different platforms such as, udemy, udacity, coursera, edx, and many more that helped them create courses on. And people have created courses that teach biology, computer science, math, history, and/or any topic that one wants to learn.

Moreover, technological related aspects polish and complete the essentials to make e-learning more interesting. The relevant references are:

Interface Design: The visual structure and design aspects are important because they make online courses appealing and well-structured.

The screen design and visual technology interface are critical to the success of e-learning.

These aspects are vital facets of the user experience.

E-learning is also helping working professionals gain access to full degree programs and/or specific courses and allowing underprivileged people to access education who previously didn't have any. It is indeed an enjoyable experience because people want to learn and e-learning makes it fun to learn.

The beauty of having this facility is that learners from all around the world with all different backgrounds are able to help each other. It's a great time investment. It does pay off.

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