How to Communicate Effectively With Your Instructor
Communication is complicated, especially in a learning atmosphere where the classwork is 100% online. In order to help students and instructors communicate more effectively via technology, we have assembled a few tactics and tips for communicating efficiently and successfully.
Each instructor has their own individual preferences about the following guidelines, so when in doubt, ask your instructor about their online communication preferences.
We’re all on the same team
Instructors want their students to succeed and learn course material, while students want to do well and get on to their post-graduate lives in their field. There are no perfect instructors or students here, but our goals are complementary. How can we accomplish these goals better together?
In the online communication age,… Read more >> Tags: Online Graduate School | student success
Finding Community in Online Education
Taking an online course is far more than sitting in front of a computer. To get the full value out of the experience, you need to go deeper – real engagement involves becoming a part of the community of learners. In fact, research supports the development of community in online education as an important factor for maximizing student satisfaction with the experience.
This study has shown that there are five key peer-to-peer interactions in online learning are most predictive of sense of community. They are introductions, collaborative group projects, contributing personal experiences, entire class online discussions, and exchanging resources.
In this post, we’ll talk about how we implement each of these interactions within our UNE Online courses, what our programs’… Read more >> Tags: Online Education | Online Graduate School | Online Learning
How to Request Your UNE Online Transcript
A transcript is an official document. It shows which classes you took at the University of New England, and your grades in those classes.
If you would like to order a transcript from UNE, please follow the steps below.
The steps are the same for:
Science Prerequisites for the Health Professions (SPHP) Post-Baccalaureate Courses
Matriculated students
Non-matriculated students
Transcript requests
Navigate to the UOnline website: http://uonline.une.edu/
Click “LOGIN HERE”
Login
Username your Noreaster ID (your email address, excluding the @une.edu part)
Password is the same as your student email
Click “Student Services”
Click “Student Records”
To view your transcript
Click “Academic Transcript”
Select Transcript Levelj
Click “Submit”
To request your official transcript
Click “Request Printed/Official Transcript”
Follow prompts
Two additional… Read more >> Tags: College of Graduate and Professional Studies | Online Graduate School | UNE Online
Hooding Ceremony 2017
The College of Graduate and Professional Studies congratulates the class of 2017!
Each spring, the College of Graduate and Professional Studies holds a Hooding ceremony to honor doctoral and master’s graduates and celebrate the successful completion of their studies.
The Hooding ceremony is not meant to replace the university-wide commencement. Rather, it is a special time to come together to meet fellow students, Faculty, Program Managers and Student Support Specialists for the first time, and celebrate the fact that our graduates have completed this phase of their journey.
About the 2017 UNE Hooding Ceremony
The hooding ceremony itself is similar to a graduation in that faculty and students are dressed in academic attire. There are opening remarks, a keynote speech,… Read more >> Tags: CGPS | Graduation | Hooding | Online Graduate School
5 Secrets of a Successful Online Student
Getting an advanced degree online requires drive… and plenty of discipline. The majority of UNE Online graduate students have a full-time job in addition to their schoolwork, and so purposefully have to carve out a space to get coursework done. Taking online courses requires time management. With in-person classes, you have to actually drive to a classroom and sit there next to other students and your instructor. With online education, there are no physical location requirements.
Online school helps you maximize your time. Most likely, that’s why you chose this path, or are at least seriously considering it. You can fit your education in between other important obligations, but you also know you have to prioritize.
The following are five… Read more >> 
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