A couple months ago, I sat down at Starbucks with my laptop and a tall Passion Fruit Iced Tea Lemonade in hand, ready to knock out the first module of the UNC Business Essentials program. At the time, I thought the program would be a general overview of basic business concepts, something to get my feet wet in business terminology and principles. I found out pretty quickly that the UBE program was going to be a little more involved and in-depth than I had planned. The first module contained all of the information that I thought the whole program would contain – an overview of the business industry, including some common terms and principles. After that, the rest of the Read More
Monthly Archives: June 2012
The Benefits of the Online Education Model of UNC Business Essentials Program
19/06/2012 – 7:06 pm
Have you ever taken a class at UNC where it seemed like the Professor might have been a world-record holder for most words spoken per minute? I know that I’ve had multiple classes where the Professor lectured at such a rapid pace, it was physically impossible to get down every important detail and concept that was being covered. It can be a pretty demoralizing feeling to walk out of a lecture with a hand-cramp from writing so quickly, and still knowing that you missed key parts of the lecture. If you can identify with this frustration, I would like to contrast it with the online, module-based curriculum of the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business Essentials Program. I completed the program this past Read More
Business Skills At Your Own Pace
12/06/2012 – 7:01 pm
While being in a business school classroom would have provided some benefits, I honestly feel that I would not have learned as much as I did through UNC Business Essentials online modules. UNC Business Essentials allowed me to move at my own pace, which actually allowed me to absorb more information. The course gave me the opportunity to move slowly through the course, rather than playing catch up which typically occurs in most of my in person courses. Also, I think if I had been in a business school classroom, I would have been intimidated by my peers due to my lack of knowledge about business courses. Through UNC Business Essentials, I gained a multitude of knowledge in various subjects. Read More
You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know
05/06/2012 – 7:43 pm
One thing that I took away from UBE is that unless you try new things, you will never know what you don’t know. Let me explain. Throughout each module of the certificate courses, I consistently discovered new aspects of the business realm that I did not even know existed. It’s one thing to know that you lack knowledge on a certain subject matter, say, quantum astrophysics, and another to not even know that there is a knowledge gap to be filled. For instance, although I was familiar with the economics content in the Economics and Finance module, I knew nothing about the Six Sigma process, the bullwhip effect, GAAP, or the 5 bases for segmentation in the other modules. In Read More