2 January 2002, Singapore

E-Learning, Your Passport to American Education

Studying in America without leaving home has become an exciting reality for many students around the world. E-learning has emerged as an option for students unable to afford the expense of travelling overseas. There are no residency forms or visas to worry about. A student from London, New Zealand or China is on the same footing as a student from the United States.

e-learning, with its anytime, anywhere accessibility and flexibility has gained its popularity over the years. It allows students to enroll in courses, interact with faculty and fellow students, and receive a quality educational experience while remaining at home. It allows total ownership of personal development at your own pace. Enrollment, advising, financial aid, forms, processes, courses, faculty and other education services come to you. In other words, e-learning is about students and not educational institutions. It places the student at the center of the educational experience.

PurpleTrain is proud to bring to you an unrivaled mix of the world's most prestigious universities from the United Kingdom and United States. Salem International University (SIU), for instance, is a private, independent, liberal arts college based in West Virginia, USA.

The mission of SIU is to educate students to become world citizens by ensuring their acquisition of diverse non-prejudice knowledge and enabling them to make decisions from an international perspective.
As part of this mission, Salem International University now seeks to provide students with an international, intercultural education experience.

For a student who is outside the US, but who is hoping to pursue an American education, unable to actually travel to the US, e-learning through PurpleTrain.com is an ideal way to determine their comfort level with the style of American education. At the same time, it's quite affordable. E-learning makes borders and geography meaningless. For example, PurpleTrain.com charges the same tuition rate regardless of where a student lives. Someone living a mile from the host site or other country pays the same tuition.

Naturally, e-learning is not the same as studying abroad. For those students with time, money and few responsibilities, travelling overseas for their education is still a great life-affirming adventure. However, for the majority of students who do not have the kind of resources required for an extensive stay in a foreign land, e-learning open up a new world of possibilities. The virtual classroom is a connection to that world, where learners share their learning experiences with students from all over the globe.

In fact, a large segment of students already enrolled in on-line courses are working adults with families. The opportunity to study and learn at the computer in their own time and place is a windfall for these students. Again, it is a matter of the student being in control of the educational process, and the institution recognizing that the student is the most important person in that process.

Consider too that Salem International is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association (NCA) of Colleges and Schools, allowing transfer of credits or degree status from one college to another. In other words, credits earned are transferable and recognised by other regionally accredited colleges or universities.

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