The Online Student's Survival Guide outlines the considerations that an adult learner must consider when returning to school using the growing trend of online distance learning. This book offers personal insights and experiences as seen through the eyes of an online graduate student who returned to school after a twenty year absence from the world of academia - and a battle with brain cancer just prior to making the commitment to attain an advanced degree through an online university.

This book offers helpful advice for those seeking to begin this academic journey as well as hints and tips to make the process easier to handle and negotiate as the student moves through a program in distance education. It addresses common misconceptions about online learning, offers insights as to what a student can expect to encounter and methods that will aid in not only succeeding as an online student - but to exceed as an adult learner. If you have ever thought of looking into an online learning program, or have the desire to attain a degree, but do not think it is possible because of your busy or hectic professional and personal life, this book will help you examine everything that there is to consider while preparing you to become a strong, dynamic online student.

Written in a straight-forward manner, this first-hand account of one student's online educational journey has been created by a student for students. It honestly offers all of the pitfalls and successes experienced as well as observed by the author.

With literally hundreds of thousands of students enrolling in this new, dynamic and exciting learning opportunity every year - this is the book to read as you make your decision and proceed with making your academic dreams a reality!

The California Homeschool Guide is the answer to what prospective and experienced California homeschoolers have been needing for years -- a comprehensive handbook that includes how to homeschool, legal options for California parents, inspiring advice from veteran homeschoolers, and extensive resources. The wisdom of many experienced homeschoolers was brought together into this guide to provide a resource that parents will be able to use for years as they go from new homeschooler to veteran.

For more than thirty years, the Johnston Center at the University of Redlands has been a focus of innovative education in the United States. This collection chronicles the last twenty-five years of this academic community's development. Johnston fosters student-centered learning through a contract system used to negotiate both course content and the terms under which each student graduates from Redlands. The essays investigate the collective coming of age of the Center, and explore the educational practices, alternative teaching and learning, instructive failures, cultural complexity, and rites of passage that have made it so successful.

The On My Own Manual is a comprehensive guide to independent living for young adults. It also includes sections for personal information to be added for that very special person, such as favorite recipes, birthdays and anniversaries of friends and families, and addresses for family and friends.

The information contained in this book will significantly reduce the stress of the transition of leaving home, not only for the one leaving, but the one's being left. As parents we do our best to teach our children the things they will need to know when they leave the nest, but it is impossible to cover it all. It's even more difficult to ensure they retain it.

For an exciting ten year period Johnston College at the University of Redlands was a locus of innovative education in the United States. Along with institutions such as hampshire, UC Santa Cruz and Fair haven, Johnston College pioneered work in student-centered learning using academic contracts, affective education, narrative evaluations rather than letter grades, and a host of other innovations. Our narrative history chronicles the rise, fall, and rebirth of this academic community's journey. The book concentrates on the founding and the closing of the College, and its transformation into the Johnston Center for Integrative Studies, which continues to prosper at the University. It explores the educational practices, alternative teaching and learning, instructive failures, cultural complexity, and rites of passage that made it so successful, and so difficult to sustain.