The numbers keep rising: more students are turning to online courses (distance learning programs) to earn a college degree.
This article in the Boston Globe offers reasons why more adults are finding online courses to be the perfect learning solution for those facing long commutes, inflexible work schedules and the demands of parenting. Of course, younger students with [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘online learning’
May 21, 2008
Adult Home School: More Online Students Skip the Commute, Earn a Degree From Home
May 12, 2008
The Tragicomedy of the Mindless Quest For That College Degree
Notice I said mindless. See, that’s the big issue. Too many students who are not prepared for college–and for whom it might not be the best option–are going into debt to pursue that golden bachelor’s degree.
Marty Nemko is my new best friend. Well, we’ve never met, but I like what he has to say.
Marty wrote a great [...]
January 14, 2008
Online Learning vs Homeschooling: A Little Clarity
There’s been a lot of buzz about the differences between online learning and homeschooling thanks to a recently-aired episode of “Supernanny” in which two high school girls taking online courses end up enrolling in a traditional school due to concerns about the quality of their educational experience. Read more here.
It’s important to understand that homeschooling [...]
January 14, 2008
In A Recession, Online Education May Be A Smart Investment
Online education might be a smart investment in terms of your career, but it could be a great addition to your stock portfolio as well.
This piece by Peter Cohan on BloggingStocks.com explains that hard financial times might be the best time to invest in companies that offer online learning options. Apollo Group (to take one example) offers [...]
January 12, 2008
Thanks, Tim Ferriss (author of “The 4-Hour Workweek”) For The Inspiration To Write This Book
Well, in my last post I talked about how amazing Buenos Aires is and that creative folks from all over the world are coming here to check it out for themselves.
Tim Ferriss, author of the best-selling book on lifestyle design called The 4-Hour Workweek, spent time here in BA back before he wrote his book. [...]
January 8, 2008
Education Predictions for 2008
I’m not a seer, but there are some things coming down the pike that will shift the way we view learning in general and global education in particular.
John Moravec over at Education Futures offers his personal list of five education predictions for 2008 and a bunch of links to other prognostications from various sources.
If your [...]
January 7, 2008
Free College Education For All–Or Getting Closer To It
This is a very cool time for those who are intellectually curious.
It’s not just that you have Google at your fingertips. Now, you can sit in on some of the best lectures by top professors at elite universities–for FREE. All you need is an internet connection.
No credit. No grades. No degree. But the CONTENT is [...]
December 18, 2007
Princeton Resists Pressure To Offer Online Courses
Unlike Yale, Harvard and MIT, Princeton University administrators have not jumped on the distance learning bandwagon.
This article in the Daily Princetonian offers some interesting quotes from administrators at both Yale and Princeton about the value of online learning.
Princeton, with its $10 billion endowment (one of the highest in the US) certainly has the means to implement [...]
December 12, 2007
Save THOUSANDS of Dollars By Studying Online–But Don’t Take the Wrong Courses!
The rate of enrollment in distance learning courses surpasses the growth in enrollment in face-to-face classes nationally, and two-year associate-degree institutions (community colleges) not only had the highest annual growth rate at 24 percent but also accounted for half of the online enrollments for the past five years.
Four-year universities, on the other hand, had the [...]
