{"id":499227,"date":"2022-10-07T15:48:18","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T12:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/athabasca-university-lets-you-study-anywhere-at-your-own-pace\/"},"modified":"2022-10-07T15:48:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T12:48:18","slug":"athabasca-university-lets-you-study-anywhere-at-your-own-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/athabasca-university-lets-you-study-anywhere-at-your-own-pace\/","title":{"rendered":"#Athabasca University lets you study anywhere, at your own pace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a26e0a78bcf3\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a26e0a78bcf3\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/athabasca-university-lets-you-study-anywhere-at-your-own-pace\/#%E2%80%9CAthabasca_University_lets_you_study_anywhere_at_your_own_pace%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Athabasca University lets you study anywhere, at your own pace&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/athabasca-university-lets-you-study-anywhere-at-your-own-pace\/#%E2%80%9CPeople_in_the_21st_century_lead_very_complicated_lives_To_tell_them_they_can_only_enrol_once_or_twice_a_year_is_limiting_Our_learners_can_enrol_every_month_And_if_you_ask_why_they_chose_us_they_usually_say_were_flexible_and_were_high_quality%E2%80%9D\" >\u201cPeople in the 21st century lead very complicated lives. To tell them they can only enrol once or twice a year is limiting. Our learners can enrol every month. And if you ask why they chose us, they usually say we\u2019re flexible and we\u2019re high quality.\u201d<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CAthabasca_University_lets_you_study_anywhere_at_your_own_pace%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Athabasca University lets you study anywhere, at your own pace&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n                                                                        <strong>Created for <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.athabascau.ca\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-sizes=\"auto\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 90px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/athabasca_logo_horizontal_cmyk_colour-e1665150763505.png\" alt=\"Athabasca University logos\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Like his<\/strong> family before him, Tyler Harbaruk imagined a lifelong career in the oil and gas industry. Growing up in the oilpatch town of Macklin, Sask., it was a way of life.<\/p>\n<p>After high school, he earned a diploma in petroleum engineering and quickly landed a well-paying job in his field. The position demanded extensive <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> across Western Canada and the U.S., taking him away from home for weeks at a time.<\/p>\n<p>As Harbaruk\u2019s relationship with his fianc\u00e9e (now wife) grew, he questioned whether his itinerant lifestyle was a good fit. \u201cI knew I wanted to start a family soon and that I wasn\u2019t going to want to work away forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He decided to switch gears and pursue a career that would keep him closer to home. But he struggled to find a post-secondary institution that would allow him to get a degree while working full-time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou think there are thousands of choices, but there aren\u2019t,\u201d says Harbaruk, now 26. \u201cThere\u2019s one, and it\u2019s Athabasca University. I wanted to do it entirely online. I couldn\u2019t go to in-person classes. I could learn after work or on my days off. It\u2019s not like there\u2019s a class at a specific time, and you have to be there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As an open university, Athabasca University (AU) allows students to learn at their own pace, on their own time \u2014 regardless of location, academic history or life circumstances. Founded in 1970, AU quickly turned its focus to distance learning by correspondence and later pioneered the use of computers to deliver courses. It launched the world\u2019s first online MBA in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>So, while many universities struggled to adapt to online delivery during the pandemic, AU and its faculty are veterans. AU courses are purposefully designed for asynchronous instruction, and the school is recognized as one of the world\u2019s leading-edge virtual universities. It serves more than 38,000 students across Canada and in more than 101 countries around the world.<\/p>\n<p>For Harbaruk, the model AU has been perfecting for decades simply made sense. He enrolled in a few courses toward a Bachelor of Commerce degree. With credit for his previous diploma, he was already partway there. And when he was laid off for four months during the COVID-19 downturn, Harbaruk seized the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI signed up for more AU classes. I was used to working long hours, so I thought, \u2018I\u2019m just going to do these classes from eight to five and make a bunch of progress toward my degree.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>When work started up again, Harbaruk was back on the road, but he continued his coursework in his spare time. It was going so well that when his company offered him a job in northern Alberta in the fall of 2020, he made \u201ca huge leap\u201d and turned it down. \u201cI knew I wanted to take the next year off to finish my degree and find something else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harbaruk graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce in Finance in June 2021 \u2014 just 15 months after enrolling. \u201cYou can work at your own pace. It\u2019s not easy \u2014 you have to be really dedicated and organized \u2014 but it\u2019s definitely possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What makes open universities different from traditional, bricks-and-mortar institutions is their focus on outputs rather than inputs, says AU President Peter Scott, who took on the role in January after 30 years working in open and online learning in Australia and the U.K.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CPeople_in_the_21st_century_lead_very_complicated_lives_To_tell_them_they_can_only_enrol_once_or_twice_a_year_is_limiting_Our_learners_can_enrol_every_month_And_if_you_ask_why_they_chose_us_they_usually_say_were_flexible_and_were_high_quality%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>\u201cPeople in the 21st century lead very complicated lives. To tell them they can only enrol once or twice a year is limiting. Our learners can enrol every month. And if you ask why they chose us, they usually say we\u2019re flexible and we\u2019re high quality.\u201d<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_1241066\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-sizes=\"auto\" class=\"wp-image-1241066 size-featured-image-portrait lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Athabasca_President-300x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Athabasca University President Peter Scott<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhoever you are, our job is to make you successful,\u201d he says. \u201cWe don\u2019t pick you. You pick us \u2014 and then we help you succeed. We\u2019re not focused on measuring you as you come in and deciding that you deserve a place here. Our job is to measure how what we do changes your world. It\u2019s that output we\u2019re most proud of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Flexibility and accessibility are hallmarks of open universities, Scott says. \u201cPeople in the 21st century lead very complicated lives. To tell them they can only enroll once or twice a year is limiting. Our learners can enroll every month. And if you ask why they chose us, they usually say we\u2019re flexible and we\u2019re high quality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Along with the University of Calgary, University of Lethbridge and University of Alberta in Edmonton, AU is one of Alberta\u2019s four publicly funded comprehensive academic and research institutions. The AU business school ranks in the top six percent worldwide, and recently achieved gold-standard accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)<\/p>\n<p>AU is also home to the world-class IDEA Lab, a virtual research environment that harnesses the power of cloud computing to enable researchers to investigate big problems and engineer effective solutions. From analyzing open datasets for bias in health care to building an automatic answering service for COVID-19 questions, IDEA Lab has helped AU researchers achieve faster results.<\/p>\n<p>AU has made it a priority to remove the barriers many students face at traditional institutions. Scott says some 70 percent of learners are \u201cfirst-in-family\u201d students \u2014 the first in their families to attend university. \u201cWhen your family doesn\u2019t have a tradition of sending people to college, it represents a new opportunity. You are taking that leap on behalf of yourself, your kids, your cousins and the rest of your family. You are showing them that university can be part of their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scott also notes at least one in 10 AU learners lives in a rural or remote area. That\u2019s one of the benefits of asynchronous instruction: Students can participate from anywhere, at their convenience. \u201cIt\u2019s really a perfect model for working worldwide,\u201d he adds. \u201cAnything a conventional university does, we can do it better \u2014 and for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For Harbaruk, the most significant benefit of AU\u2019s open model was how it helped develop his self-management skills, which are essential in his new career.<\/p>\n<p>Far from the travelling lifestyle of his previous job, Harbaruk is now a business valuation analyst with MNP and lives in Sherwood Park, Alta.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt AU, you\u2019re given a deadline and you figure out how to plan your time and progress through your courses,\u201d he says. \u201cYou set the timeline for yourself \u2014 you just have to meet the deadline with good quality work. That\u2019s what really matters in the workplace, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more about Athabasca University and its programs of study, visit <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.athabascau.ca\/\">athabascau.ca<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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