QU Online Blog
The QU Online Blog was created for distance learners to cover topics related to online education, professional development and industry trends. Whether you're a seasoned professional or just starting a career path, this blog is designed to be a valuable resource for your educational journey.
How to Choose an Online College: Essential Elements to Consider
When picking an online college, gathering research is an important step in the decision-making process. Exploring your options is essential to ensure you have chosen the right program. To assist your further, we put together a helpful spreadsheet to assist you with your research.
The Path to Improved Cybersecurity Culture
The recent ISACA-CMMI Institute cybersecurity culture research illustrates the accomplishments and gaps that are seen in organizations’ cybersecurity culture. The survey-driven research focuses on culture and continuous improvement, both essential components to a successful cyber risk management program.
Understanding Graduate Financial Aid: How to Pay for Grad School
The thought of paying for graduate school can be overwhelming; however, there are programs in place to help those who want to continue their education. Research the many different opportunities to secure loans, scholarships and grants that will help you cover the cost of graduate school.
Mitigating Organizational Risk Through Workforce Development
What would you consider to be the greatest security risk to your organization? If you ask this question to ten C-level executives, you may get ten different responses. Securing software, database or network security, ransomware, malware, and DDoS attacks are all things that come to mind. But what about the vulnerability that your business faces due to the ongoing cybersecurity skills shortage?
Loan Repayment: What's the Best Way to Consolidate Your College Loans?
Once you enter repayment on your loans, you may receive phone calls, letters or see posts from companies asking you if you would like to consolidate your student loans. Even if you are not in repayment, you may have heard radio ads or seen Facebook ads from companies offering to consolidate student loans. It is very important to understand that many of these ads can be misleading.
Student loans: How much should you borrow for college?
When you open your financial aid offer letter, you may find that you have been offered more than your owing tuition and fee invoice. Each year, students are offered the maximum amount they qualify for, based on federal guidelines, even if it is more than their tuition and fee invoice. With this in mind, ask yourself what your long term goals are with borrowing your student loans.
How a Master's Degree Can Help Develop Leadership in Nursing
If you've been a nurse for a while, it's likely you've thought about advancing your degree and asked yourself: What's the value of a masters in nursing? What can a masters do for me? What are the advantages? And of course, the answer largely depends on what you want to get out of your nursing career. It also depends on what you'd like to be able to give back to the community. But let's start with how a master of science in nursing (MSN) can help you develop nursing leadership skills and grow in your nursing career.
What Can I Do With a Bachelor of Business Administration?
Perhaps you've seen a meme or heard a joke about businesses looking to hire people in their 20s with 30 years of experience. While it's obviously an exaggeration, the thought is certainly rooted in truth. While earning a BBA isn't equivalent to working in business for 30 years, a BBA can prepare you for the business world better than any liberal arts degree and give you the exact skills and knowledge that employers are looking for.
What Exactly Is Instructional Design (and How Can It Help Me)?
Whether you're a K-12 teacher, administrator, or corporate trainer, you already know quite a bit about how people learn – it's in your job description. With instructional design, you can use that knowledge to develop the right educational materials – including websites, apps, online courses, videos, podcasts, games, and social media outlets – to both improve the learning process for your students or employees and help you become more effective at your job.
The Value of an Online MBA
There's a lot of speculation about the value of an online MBA. Some say it gives you a competitive advantage in one of the fastest moving fields on the planet. Others say forget it; you don't need an MBA to succeed. But the real answer is this: you don't just need any old MBA – you need the right one.