Assuming we see reputable online degrees emerge at a price point significantly lower than what traditional four-year colleges can provide, at what point in the hierarchy of higher education will people figure that the price premium for a residential experience is simply not worthwhile?
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Over the past several years, Excelsior College and the Zogby organization have conducted nationwide surveys of employers and hiring officials to determine their perceptions of online certificates and degrees.
It is equally the case that a majority of nonprofit academic institutions are also delivering instruction online, including entire degrees.
Not only are those who take a greater number of online courses less likely to ever earn degrees, new research from Columbia shows that the rise of online education actually widens the achievement gap between demographic groups, with those who struggle in a traditional college setting having an even more difficult time navigating the waters of MOOCs and distance ed.
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They have also taken the first steps towards arranging for these online course units to count towards full university degrees.
The companies had varying degrees of success but achieved terrific visibility online.
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To get their degrees, MBA students must listen to six online lectures on beef production and do homework assignments such as writing a pro-beef letter to the local paper.
Both are taking advantage of free online courses and other learning resources that may or not be accredited degrees, but have no less helped them achieve the tangible skills necessary to found their own businesses or enhance their career prospects.
University of Wisconsin will grant bachelor's degrees based on a person's knowledge as demonstrated in online tests, not on class time or credits, the first such offering from a public university system.
While there, she saw that many candidates who had completed their degrees could not get jobs because of the mixed reputation of the online education provider.
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The latest expansion in prestigious online universities in the US includes plans to charge for courses which will count towards degrees.
After earning mathematics and computer-science degrees at Eastern Michigan University, Chinese national Maria Zhang worked for Microsoft and Zillow, an online real-estate firm, before starting a mobile technology company, called Propeld, in Bellevue in late 2010.
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