The Beauty of Online Learning

             As many of you know, I am involved in the online masters program at Full Sail University in Entertainment Business. I chose to go the online route instead of moving to Florida and attending live because having just graduated from Rowan University in music education, I was looking for a job in New Jersey but also established myself in the New Jersey/Philadelphia area where my family and friends are.

Attending Full Sail online is a fantastic experience. I am able to attend live sessions online and complete all my course work on my own schedule.

Online education is becoming popular more and more every year!

As schools provide education for online students, companies are providing many meetings, conventions, as well as education, online.

I wanted to talk about a site I visited a week ago that has me going back to it every week to see new updates. I am talking about CreativeLive.

What is CreativeLive?

CreativeLive is a sight, much like Lynda.com where you can learn about anything you can possibly think of. The difference between Creative and Lynda is the fact that Creative has special guests and professionals to go to their studio, live, and hold sessions to a live classroom as well as online students that cannot attend live. The session is also completely FREE to attend! Just create a username and password and you are part of the CreativeLive community. Where CreativeLive makes their money is you can chose to pay a subscription and those are the students that have a chance to attend these sessions live. You can also buy “On Demand” which is a complete rewind of the session you attended where you can stop, play, and rewind to catch any parts that you may have missed in the live session.

What do they teach?

Teachers at CreativeLive come from all different backgrounds. I recently attended a session on mixing music where I tuned into both sessions on Monday and Tuesday. Monday was a session from 12pm-7pm focusing all on compression. Tuesday’s session was the same time but all about EQ. You can also have Creative cater to your needs. I am in music so I have the setting set to notify me when any music sessions are coming up.

CreavtiveLive is a fantastic site because not only can you tune in virtually, but also you are in the chat room and you can actually ask questions to the presenter or educator and he or she will answer your questions.

I advise everyone to check out CreativeLive because online learning is so popular now and it has gotten to the point where learning online is just as real as being in the classroom.