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If they know what the program states they will know at the conclusion of the course, great. If they can perform the work for which this should be preparing them then let us see more movement in this direction.
You mean, even more diluted than it is right now?
Those who hold a monopoly don't like company. Especially lower-priced company. ;-)
Where will all the Communist professors be able to find cushy jobs at Big Government indoctrination centers, which most universities have become? Obama will have to ban all on-line attempts to curb their plunder of our money and our children.
I think it depends on the job. If you are not a professional then go get an easy on-line Master’s Degree. If you are looking for a good career then go to a traditional school and earn the Master’s degree “on campus”. I know a lot of employers can tell if you on-lined it or not. I went to George Washington for my MBA and although expensive it was very much worth it. I could not imagine doing it online. But I guess bottom line it depends on how successful you want to be.
Basically, and I KNOW, it is a struggle between traditional state and student (on-site) funded academia and what is called DLPE (Distance Learning and Professional Education).
Separate accounting and budgeting entities and often including other faculty participating (e.g., qualified researchers not from the tenured staff). The final difference being “just what ‘color’ is the money being received?” [and I don’t mean anything remotely racial about this].
It will be interesting to see who wins.
Colleges and Universities have been raising tuitions every year for decades simply because they can and will get it. If this online source doesn’t properly supply the education needed by tech firms for future employees, it will be rooted out.
If you're in the business of acting as a gatekeeper between a body of knowledge and the people who want that knowledge...
Just wait until Bankock U offers this degree for $999.00.
On a related subject, just another opportunity for me to say that public school is a 19th century paradigm that outlived its usefulness in the late 20th century. It should be abolished.
Those who want their kids to get an education can send them to private school or go to places like this and get a LOT better education than a typical public school: Khanacademy.org
Those who don’t really care enough can just not bother. In those cases, the kids can get the same quality of education that many kids in America are already getting in inner city and other schools - none. And their kids will suffer the consequences just as many kids are today. At least it is a lot less work than sending them to worthless schools.
Online education can be BETTER than brick and morter and it is substantially cheaper than brick and morter. It is the future. Period.
Bachelors degrees are equivalent to HS diplomas from the 50s and 60s.
So Masters degrees are equivalent to bachelors from the same era.
I expect that the real complaint is that they won’t be able to fill the heads-full-of-mush with Liberal propaganda at every turn.
Without campus orientation week, where will these poor deprived students go to learn how to celebrate sodomy, Leninism, wind power, and abortion?
I have since heard other stories like the one I witnessed.
So I've got to ask, will programs like Georgia's have safeguards in place to prevent cheating? A simple safeguard would be to require participants to report to a secure location with valid ID to take exams. Do the work on-line, but take the exams in person.
Somehow I think universities won't bother to do that. And the result will be that, eventually, all on-line degrees will be suspect.
bflr
There is also a fair amount of academic carping about the competition...
Show me a Marxist, and I'll show you someone who not only can't compete, but believes he's entitled to stamp out the very idea of competition.
Online academies are coming.
Prager U is not certified yet, but I’m grabbing three courses at once and loving it. Jean Rosenfeld promised me she’d give me an evaluation of the setup.
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I wonder if the on line colleges make you take anti-American studies, non-White studies, nonstandard-sex studies, White privilege studies, and other fluff?