Advantages of Modular Education to Working Professionals

Advantages of Modular Education to Working Professionals

What is a Modular Education?

Modular Education is a systematic way of delivering a lesson even without going to the classroom to attend class. Each topic is prepared accordingly through modules and at the end of every module is an assessment of learning. The assessment, which serves as an examination, will be sent then to the professor and it will be sent back for the revision, completion or approval.

What are the advantages of Modular Education?

Our society today is beginning to crack our economy’s sustainability and this should be rescued by working for the basic needs of mankind. In some cases, especially in below poverty line countries, parents are incapable to send their children to school and earn a degree. However, amidst this adversity, human mind is still into developing ways to address this crisis – Modular Education. Here are some of the advantages of Modular Education:

  1. Working While Studying

Since paying the tuition and fees doesn’t come cheap, a student might need to work while studying. Through the salary that he gets from his work, he could pay his tuition and fees. Aside from that, he could help his parents too by providing them some cash if he gets some extra from work.

  1. Having a Work Experience While Studying

The most common problem that fresh grads often encounter is the lack of work experience. Even if companies welcome new breed of professionals, they are also looking for the proof of endurance at work. Since you are enrolled to a Modular Education, you will have the opportunity to build your portfolio and that is an edge to other professionals who finished from traditional system of education; a step closer to land that job you have been applying for.

  1. Unlimited Sources of Study Guides and Materials

Since modules come with a specific topic without the prescribed books to be used, you have the widest options to search and research for the relevant topics related to your studies. This would mean you can access different books, readings and materials that will enrich your mind further. In this way, you will have varied sources to validate theories and principles you have encountered from one book to another. It would make your studies even more substantial and deeply researched.

  1. You Own Your Time

Now-a-days, our time is not ours; it is already paid by someone. However, in Modular Education, you have the option to own your time and choose for schedules that suit your preference of time of work. This is the reason that most of the professionals who finished through Modular Education managed to get through the entire college without compromising their own time because they’d owned it and they just used it at the time of the day when they are mostly productive.

  1. No Hassle of Going to School

Unlike the traditional system of education, Modular education is classroom-free system. You can bring your laptop anywhere and do your assignments and assessments. Outputs are purely online and paperless. Just be mindful of the deadlines because usually submission forms close at specific time of the day; but, nonetheless it is no compulsory to wake up early every day and attend lectures at school.

  1. You Can Ask Help From Your Friends

Although, Modular Education does not promote laziness while studying but, in some untoward events that you have to seek help from your folks, you can! Yes, you can just actually give them your log in details to the portal of your modules and they can do your assessment in your behalf. So, while attending to a very important appointment that you need to take, you are also doing your assessments at the same time.

  1. Your Degree is as good as the degree taken at the University

While the system of Education is quite different but the necessary requirements that a student should comply in the curriculum prescribed by the accrediting organization in every country are properly met, so the student who enrolled in the Modular Education will get the same degree with the student who took his degree in the university or any formal institutions.

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