By Hilary Appelman, Penn State Univesity
Penn State World Campus students, like their on-campus counterparts, can take part in out-of-class engaged scholarship experiences that complement their in-class learning. Eric Ekobeni learned how to develop a work breakdown structure — organizing a project into smaller, more manageable components — in his online Penn State business management classes. When it came time to put those skills into practice in an internship, he chose an unconventional route: helping build a school in his native Cameroon. Angela Chang, who is pursuing a master’s degree online in geographic information systems with a focus on remote sensing and geospatial intelligence, put her new skills to work almost immediately. Last year she began working with the International GIS team at the American Red Cross, using GIS to help analyze humanitarian needs in disaster response and ongoing Red Cross programs around the world.
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