Should I Get An Online Degree?
By Fred DiUlus |
Is An Online Degree Worth It? A very real debate rages over the validity of
online education and whether students working totally online acquire an
education equal to one exclusively acquired from a brick and mortar classroom.
Considering that in a generation most higher education of any consequence to the
general public will be simultaneously or totally offered and available online,
the debate is basically dead. Over the next 30 years the landscape will be
completely reversed. The largest and most sought after universities will be
those available exclusively online, in many languages, worldwide.
Many of
today’s mainstream academics, perhaps soon to be known as the dinosaurs of
higher education, continue to offer faulty and questionable research that
allegedly supports their contention that an online education is neither good or
valid, nor rigorous as that with a traditional teacher in a classroom. argue
that the issue is one of ‘process’ versus ‘content’. In effect, they believe
online courses have no content enrichment simply because they are offered
online. They are in denial and not unlike the educators in the Middle Ages who
thought that the introduction of the blackboard would destroy higher
education.
The value of any education, regardless of where it is
acquired, is ultimately based on the knowledge imparted and learned. It should
be very apparent that the value of how good or well endowed financially the
school or its contacts (network) are perceived, it can be totally duplicated in
an online environment with few exceptions.
Perhaps we should actually
consider the notion that what really ought to validate the value of a degree is
the nature and credibility of those teaching the subject not how it is
delivered. In the range of choices of what a student and professor can do
together, online delivery is clearly superior to the traditional classroom. In
effect, a professor’s name and their credentials ought to be on every university
student’s transcript. This would demonstrate to the whole world the student has
studied under and passed satisfactorily all work undertaken under this or that
academic guru. Who does this? No one.
About the
Author
Fred DiUlus is the author of the e-Book "Best & Worst
Online College Degree Programs", based on a comprehensive Five Point Rating
System. It can be downloaded FREE anytime by going to: www.GlobalAcademyOnline.com
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