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| Distance Learning - Still Going - Still Growing |
The Sloan Consortium has released their fifth annual report on growth in the higher education elearning market. The results: distance ed enrollments keep growing, at a pace significantly greater than their terrestrial education counterparts. According to the free report, Online Nation: Five Years of Growth in Online Learning, about 3.5 million people registered for an online course fall semester 2006. About 3.2 million did likewise in 2005. From the fall 2004 to fall of 2005, online enrollment grew about 36 percent. The growth between fall 2005 to fall of 2006, was smaller, a 9.7 percent increase. General college enrollment grew by only 1.3 percent from 2005 to 2006, giving online education nine times more growing power even as it slows. While faculty acceptance continues to be a barrier to e-education growth academics themselves increasingly do not see lack of acceptance by employers of online credentials as a key barrier.
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| Training Faculty to Teach Online |
Ron Thomas, director of the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, offers training on the design and delivery of online classes to more than 3,000 faculty in over 100 locations across the U.S. and overseas. Read his 10 Top Tips for ideas on improving your faculty training programs.
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| Excelsior - Distance MBA Maximizes Transfer Credits |
At Excelsior College, of New York, you may be half way to earning your MBA. Apply up to 24 graduate-level credits you've already earned toward a regionally accredited MBA. Excelsior College's high quality academics, online learning services, and supportive academic advisement allow you to earn an MBA degree that equips you with essential knowledge - and required credentials - to move ahead in your career. And because the program is designed specifically for adults with solid business or work experience, no GMAT is required.
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| Free-Stanford University Podcast Lectures |
Stanford University's continuing studies program director has archived an impressive collection of free university lectures. Learn French or the Future of the Internet as envisioned by visiting lecturers on the Stanford circuit. Open Culture (OCulture) will also lead the learner to an impressive array of free lectures (video and audio) from 30 universities like UC Berkeley along with a smattering of hip lit such as dramatic readings of Edgar Allen Poe as first heard on public radio decades ago. To access most segments you'll need a mp3 player, in some cases iPod access.
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| Jobs in Distance Education |
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JOB Postings up to 50 words run FREE!
Email your JOB to gazette (at) geteducated.com.
Online Adjunct Faculty - University of Maryland University College Online:
Seeks online adjunct faculty, part-time, online instructors to teach from their homes/communities in multiple degree and discipline areas. Teach from anywhere. We will train you to teach online. To apply: http://www.umuc.edu/facultyrecruit/
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Survey: Best Online Degrees - Business, Management, MBAs |
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Get Educated's research team has launched a survey to update our most popular free ebook: Best Distance Graduate Schools: Business, Management & Online MBAs.
This free ebook profiles accredited distance B-Schools in the USA. The current (2005) edition of the guide profiles 170+ graduate schools of business. The 2008 edition, now being prepared, is expected to profile 200+ B-Schools and 150 online MBAs. The MBA is the most popular degree offered at a distance in the USA.
"This national survey is the only one of its kind," reveals Vicky Phillips, Chief Education Analyst. "Most online education directories list an average of fifteen distance MBAs. At Get Educated, we employ a team of researchers to compile and compare data on every accredited distance B-School operating in the United States."
The research team's new survey findings will be released February 2008. These findings will include new rankings of the Top 25 Best Buys in Online MBAs, both regionally accredited and those that hold accreditation by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).
"New this year," reveals Phillips, "we'll be ranking the Best Buys in distance Masters in Management along with publishing ratings for graduate degree concentrations in high-demand career areas such as Human Resources, Project Management, and Healthcare. We'll also feature, for the first time, a spotlight on MBAs for people who care, specialty degrees in areas like Non-Profit Management."
The 2006 survey provided vital comparative data on the cost of online MBAs. "How much should a student pay for an online MBA?" asks Phillips. "Our last national survey revealed they could pay as little as $5,000 or as much as about $115,000. The average cost of a regionally accredited distance MBA in 2005 was $14,486. We expect the 2007 costs to be about 8 percentage points higher," predicts Phillips.
Get Educated's earlier surveys exploded the myth that high-quality, competitive B-Schools don't offer distance degrees. Forty-six of the 130 MBAs Get Educated surveyed Fall 2005 carried accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
"Our mission: bring honesty and transparency to the process of shopping for e-degrees. Consumers are being inundated with information about online degrees ¾ most of it ill-informed. More than 20,000 higher education portals now claim to help students find the "best" online degrees. Problem is, 19,999 of these sites are no more than paid advertisement portals."
"Our mission," says Phillips, "is to serve a new generation of higher education students by showcasing all their available options, equally. When potential students use Get Educated's free guidebooks they are exposed to more than the colleges that have invested heavily in online advertising. They learn about scores of great public colleges that aren't listed anywhere else online because these low-cost, non-profit alternatives literally don't engage in national ad campaigns."
Past Get Educated surveys have highlighted Best Buy Distance MBAs from state universities such as California State University, Troy University of Alabama, Mississippi State, and the University of Nebraska Lincoln, as well as unique low cost, high quality options from innovative private universities such as Baker College, of Michigan, and Northcentral University, of Arizona.
If your university operates a distance B-School make sure it's included in Get Educated's current survey. There is no cost associated with a free guidebook listing. E-Mail Melissa Eubank, Director of Information Services, (Melissa at geteducated.com), for profile submission details.
Any university in the USA that is accredited by a recognized agency, and that offers gradate degrees or certificates in business, management or administration, is invited to participate in the survey.
Those that do will receive a free profile in the guidebook and automatically be included in the research team's expanded 2008 ranking efforts. Download current free Guidebook to Best B-Degrees... |
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