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Event Recap
Did you miss our recent Digital Open Day for King's College London's online master's programs? Don't worry, we've got you covered. Our event provided comprehensive insights to help prospective students make informed decisions about their academic future with us.
The panel featured a diverse group of speakers, including academics, current students, and course advisors, who discussed a variety of essential topics such as
- The King's online student experience
- Academic support services
- Effective time management strategies
Stay tuned for future events and updates to get all the information you need to embark on your journey with King's College London.
Watch the Event Highlights
My name is Catherine Augustin, and I am the program director for the online MSc in public health.
Hi, everyone. I'm, doctor Rob Gallagher. I'm a lecturer in games and immersive media in the culture, media, and creative industries department at King's, and I'm program director for the digital futures masters that's launching this autumn.
Hi, everyone. I'm David Peskov. I'm actually an alumni student. Already, I just finished my master's in, King's Business School global finance analytics, and I did the online master's. So I will bring you some insight.
I'm doctor Lana Howarth. I've been, I'm a senior lecturer at King's, and I've been teaching online since two thousand and seventeen.
In my view, it all comes down to, flexibility, which I mentioned before. You then you don't have to go to the campus. You can be located all over the globe and connect from any place.
Yeah. And and really all student communities from all over the world, so you have really an opportunity, to network, to learn from each other, to learn from each of these, experiences, and at the same time, having that potentially added flexibility around how you sort of time your learning and how you fit it around other obligations that you might have without, you know, having to relocate for your studies or having the commute. If you are somebody who's in, who's also working or who has any carrier responsibilities or doesn't want to relocate and, on and and you feel like online learning is is for you, then that's an advantage.
From my perspective, online learning provides you with more opportunities than face to face learning. So it may sound controversial, but very briefly, that's because you The discussion doesn't stop in class and we we we utilize the fora. There are nine fora forums and, you can continue discussing issues with your colleagues and the lecturer. You can actually arrange for a call with your lecturer. We used to we use Teams or whatever suits you and as and when you happen to be in London, you're very welcome to join your lecturers and have a cup of tea or coffee. And people, usually make an effort to meet fellow colleagues in different locations.
What we did, especially when I joined my program, the first thing I did, I asked either a WhatsApp community. I created one. We got people online to the community.
That community is now thriving. We have something like two hundred people. You have a lot of opportunities.
It's really all about being proactive to drive that forward.
We're, collaborating with colleagues in the faculty who are kinda leading researchers in some of these fields. They're they're working on many of the kind of current and emerging issues, problems, opportunities.
We are focused on on understanding what's happening at the moment, but more than that on on kind of equipping, everyone to to kinda get to grips with what might happen in the future.
And with the way that the courses are designed, we're able to update the content, year on year, semester on semester. So, if things do change, we can adapt to that.
We have a vast library of online resources. You will have access to all of the journals, that King's has subscribed to. So that's a pretty pretty broad range of journals and articles that you will be able to access. The library also offers, quite a lot of workshops and trainings for students, for instance, on doing things like literature searches, and things like that, which are all online workshops, that you can access.
And there are other online resources on academic skills, essay writing, and, dissertation projects, in addition to the support that you will be getting, from the teaching team, that you can access as a student.
The online library, which is available in, another department called Tales, which is used by kings. It's very rich. You can find many books. Even books which are not part of your model, recommendation reading list, you can find them and use them, and you don't have to pay for that.
It's already included. And it I think it's also a very nice support which you get, for free. The other thing is access to many online journals, like in my case, financial journals, which are very expensive to get access to. You get it for free.
I wanted to build up on the point made by Daniel.
So well firstly if you happen to be in London you will have a card so you will be able to to go to the physical library.
But if you're using the online library, I teach law and there are some very expensive, as David said, databases that King's subscribe to. So these are the databases that are used by legal practitioners in the UK, including all the Magic Circle firms. So it's they they're very comprehensive. They are updated on the like every ten seconds, so I'm talking about things like Lexus, Lawtell, Westlaw, Factiva. So all of these resources will be available to you for the duration of your studies.