Augustine Educational Services
Thyme4Edu 

Our firm is a small educational consulting company currently that serves K-12 and college-bound students, most clients are upper-middle-class families. Students are attending some of the best private and public schools in the  Washington, D.C, area. The expansion of academic and college planning services to include distance education and e-learning alternatives to students regardless of social-economic backgrounds. There is a need for a learning activity and community for all students to see the impact of planning, decision-making, and skill-building interactively. 

Most high school counselors or independent educational consultants do not recommend taking time between high school and college to learn valuable skills like coding, data analytics, or project management, socio-emotional skills, and presentation skills, to name a few.  It would be great to determine how to bring these options into the post-high school planning process for students before higher education to build skills and fill gaps that are sometimes overlooked in middle and high schools, particularly for the underserved and disadvantaged communities.  

 

The project is the expansion of a college planning consultant role to include distance education and E-Learning.  Make it part of educational planning focusing on high school students, adult learners (18+), Gen Y looking to upskill or reskill, and baby boomers looking for lifelong learning opportunities at low or no costs.  Developing games that students want to play while learning basic materials subliminally, i.e., Invisible Learning, is a huge opportunity. (Moe & Rajendran, May 2020).  Rather than see technology as a means toward more efficient and automated forms of education, connected learning puts progressive, experiential, and learner-centered approaches at the center of technology-enhanced learning. Using Distance Education to streamline a four-year degree or skip the college route and gain valuable skills through Distance Education is an option that most students and families are unaware exist.