I have been trying to categorize my views here when it comes to easy learning. One can be the idea of easily getting into the learning environment while the other can be the ease of being thought. Or we can still break down the latter to easy access to self learning materials or easy access to self learning technology. We will be expanding on this in the article.
Some scenarios indeed prove that the patient dog eats the fattest bone. I am trying to imagine how expensive and competitive education and its processes were some years ago. Even getting admission into national and state owned universities was a struggle to enter. Some in the process had to overstay their waiting periods.
Technology always seems a two way thing, while doing damage to those who were hyping the system, it on the other hand opens a new door for many to walk through. One of the things you can't doubt in technology and its advancement to be precise is flexibility. You can send money to anyone in any part of the world, as long as both parties have a working Network connection.
In Hive, this can be a three seconds thing. Maybe you are easily forgetting the 2-3 business days from the bank. note the ‘business days’ also, something that has been waved away. Be it on a weekend or weekdays, transactions on chains keep flowing; day and night, it remains the same.
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Ok, let me head back to the aspect of education. Without being informed you are on the other hand very deformed. It was something I discussed with my co-partner concerning our early phase of tertiary education. We had to live near the school environment, something that had its setbacks. Consider the cost of renting a house, food (not even going into nutritious feeding), security and yes, you can add environmental pressure.
Why some students never graduate is that the environment of the schooling system corrupts them. Consider things like cultism, clubbing, drinking, hyped lifestyle just to fit in and the rest. I talked a little about this when I covered an article on Open and Distance learning some days ago.
As we speak, the four walls of the educational system are NOW walless. You heard me right, adding to that, asides from inflation, education is becoming cheaper. I know not many of us have such time for the right calculations.
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So where are we heading to in this article? How easy can one study abroad if you wish to currently?. First, you have to admit the different institutions that are piling up in the Internet space looking for students globally. The hyped fence (wall) has been pulled down and as I earlier said, many can NOW press into it.
I was doing such research and I found some reputable institutions where I could stay in the comfort of both my country and home to obtain valuable educational degrees. In short, when looking at affordability, it was cheaper than some of the institutions we have in our country. Punching the calculator even rightly, many miss the actual cost of what they call affordable education.
As I earlier said concerning my earlier tertiary days, the underground cost was rent and cost of living. Many don't even see it, their entire focus is on the tuition fees. So you just left an environment where you were flourishing in business to camp in a new environment for a couple of years. The actual calculation is that you are spending more. In short, what makes school expensive and stressful is the cost of living and education in a confined place.
It can be surprising that someone spending N750,000 yearly on Open and Distance learning institutions abroad is saving much more than someone spending N120,000 yearly tuition on the traditional educational system. As I said, have you considered your yearly rent? How about transportation? How about your daily feeding and adding to that, you don't have control over your daily time. A lecturer fixes lectures by 9:AM and it becomes very compulsory for everyone to convene in the same place.
Your business gets tampered with while you remain a daily high end spender. At least I have some experiences here. We are not even talking about miscellaneous unnecessary spendings a lecturer may put you through in the offline educational processes.
To conclude, let me add, there is still much to talk of. Learning should be done at a convenient pace for students. This is something we are seeing technology driving through in the educational system. You don't need to be abroad to study abroad. You don't even need to spend much to get a better education, the hyped wall has been broken. I can even talk of how artificial intelligence on its own will also help to make online education even much faster and efficient in the coming years; indeed, learning made easy.
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