Abdullah, a Pioneer scholar from the United States (Accounting, 2019), wasn’t quite sure what to expect when he embarked on research with Pioneer.  “Before Pioneer Academics, my idea of research was… being in person, like in a lab, mixing different chemicals,” he says. “So I was confused about how this program could work online.  My idea was that I would be helping the professor with whatever small tasks he had and needed help with.” 

He was surprised to find that “it was completely the opposite!”  Throughout the course of his experience in the Pioneer Research Program, he explains, “I was in the driver’s seat of my research paper. I was the one in control of what it was going to talk about, what it would research, what I would contain. The professor was really just there to guide me and help with whatever questions I had about how the research should be conducted.” 

In a self-directed learning environment like Pioneer Academics’, the responsibility for learnin...more