e-Learning Pundit

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How about the MS through New Mexico State University for $9,700?

Another short roundup.

+ Texas Woman’s University: “Ph.D. in nursing science will be available 100% online” starting this fall.

+ Mount Aloysius College (PA): new online Bachelor of Science in Business Administration completion program.

+ From Ars Technica about Brigham Young University (UT): University finds free online classes don’t hurt enrollment.  

+ Check out this about EduKan:

…EduKan provides online associates degrees and general education classes to students in Kansas and across the United States. “We are seeing a lot more students coming from out of state, especially California where the state’s budget deficit is reducing the number of classes being taught by their community colleges; our out of state enrollment is up by 7 percent through word of mouth advertising by our students.”…

+ Here’s an update on the new online Bachelor of Science in Business Administration offered by Drexel University.

Drexel Online offers the same classes, because when “students graduate [they graduate] with a Drexel University degree, not a Drexel Online degree,” Kenneth Hartman, academic director for Drexel Online, said.

+ Troy University (AL) “kicks off” National Distance Learning Week.

Have a great weekend!

Inside Higher Ed examines this controversial subject.  Apparently some faculty members at West Virginia Wesleyan University were unhappy with the practice. 

Ed2Go and Gatlin are big players in this niche market.  Many colleges, public and private, offer courses taught by these entities.

This is not implying that anything is right or wrong with the practice.  After all, as one administrator implies, outsourcing the classes represents a revenue stream.     

NCAA basketball, both Men’s and Women’s, is enjoying another great season.  How about the UConn ladies?  Undefeated so far. 

+ West Virgina University introduces an online executive MBA.  Some on campus time is required. 

+ Coastal Carolina University (SC): new bachelor of sciences in health sciences “over the Internet“.

+ Marshall University (WVA) now has a virtual campus on Second Life. 

+ According to US News, online college-level education is still expanding rapidly.

+ From Diamondback Online (University of Maryland): “Online classes: The education superhighway”.

+ The old University of Illinois “Global Campus” is now “U of I Online“.

+ A “cyber explosion” at University of New Mexico.

+ More on University of the People at BusinessWeek.

+ The online college scene at Indiana University-East is just fine and dandy.  Meanwhile, even though Taylor University (IN) eliminated one brick and mortar campus, the university expanded its virtual campus.

Have a wonderful weekend!  

Via the Dayton Daily News (OH), we discover a new online continuing education program in food service. Check out these comments from the report.

…Jeff Culbertson, a food-science professor, said there are plenty of opportunities for students. In specialized fields such as food science, he said, there are more job openings than qualified workers.

Demand is so great that companies such as H.J. Heinz, Frito-Lay, Starbucks and even Jack Daniel’s are hiring people with related degrees such as chemistry and then sending them through a one-year, online course that Culbertson runs at Ohio State. He said food-science graduates start out making about $50,000 a year for an undergrad degree and about $65,000 for a graduate degree…

More about the program here.  Pricing for the 5-course certificate is $2,500.

+ That’s what this article in the Denver Post insinuates.  There’s already some existing regulation in various states around the country.  A nice table is included with the piece, by the way.

…”It’s not that difficult to make money in post-secondary education if you’ve got the right business model,” said Kevin Kinser, an associate professor with the University at Albany, State University of New York, who has studied for-profit colleges.

“You have a limited set of courses, a standardized curriculum and a teaching staff of working professionals. Then you recruit like hell,” he said. “The more enrollments, the more money you make.”…

+ J David McSwane recently penned a highly informative piece: “Schools like Everest College are higher (priced) education: Take it from a certified pharmacy technician”. 

Terrible, really.  Apparently, we — as in here in the good old USA — are the fake college/university capital of the world, according to this report.

It goes without saying that fake degrees hurt us all. 

College basketball is going strong!.

+ University of South Dakota will introduce an online masters in addiction studies this summer.  USD offers some outstanding tuition rates for out-of-state students.

+ University of West Georgia describes the “who, what, where” of surviving in online classes. 

+ “Has Google developed the next wave of online education?”

+ The new online BS in Sustainable Management through University of Wisconsin Extension receives some positive press in this interview.

+ Penn Foster partners with the  National Labor College to offer classes at a distance.  Inside Higher Ed is on top of what some call a controversial deal.

+ Here’s a quick glance into the online university scene around the St. Louis (MO) area. 

+ Redlands Daily Facts (CA) looks at virtual college classes around the San Bernadino area. 

+ Earning an online MBA from California Lutheran University while stationed in Germany.

Have a wonderful weekend!

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