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- Accreditation: a peer-review process schools pursue to validate to their clients that they are academically rigorous institutions. Accredidation is also a prerequisite to be able to offer various forms of financial aid. ... top
- Asynchronous online instruction: when students and instructors do not need to be online at the same time, e.g. the instructor posts assignments, and the student completes them by a deadline. Opposite: synchronous online instruction ... top
- Cohort: students organized into a long-term study group. As a member of a cohort, you are among a small group of students enrolled in the same program, who all start at the same time. The cohort progresses through the program as a group, taking the same classes together, and finishing your course of study together. ... top
- Decision making: an organized approach to moving from dream, to goal, to action, to execution, to result. ... top
- FAFSA: Federal student loan application ... top
- Hybrid (classes): where some of the instruction for a course is on-campus, and the remainder online. The online portion may be asynchronous (where student and instructor do not have to be online at the same time), or synchronous (concurrent online presence) ... top
- ROI: return-on-investment, or rate of return, is the ratio of money gained or lost on an investment relative to the amount of money invested. ... top
- Synchronous online instruction: instruction where students and instructor are online at the same time, operating as a virtual classroom. Opposite: asynchronous online instruction. ... top
- Terminal degree: the highest level academic degree in a particular discipline, e.g. PhD, JD, EdD, etc. ... top
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