arabera Antonio Rodriguez 13 years ago
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Online education is obviosly more convienient but are the cost comparable with the traditional classroom setting.
Most studies are showing that online classes are less expensive for both the students and the universities implementing them.
The internet has now made it possible to get your MBA all online. Do employers such as universiteis see these degrees as equivelent to a traditional MBA? Are these students getting the same education a in a traditional classroom?
A recent survey showed that 40 percent of MBA students are doing their courses either partially online or completely via the internet.
Is the new wave of online homeschooling giving kids more opportunities for a better education or will smaller amounts of face to face contact lead to the lack of social skills in future generations?
Statistics and surveys from Sloans Consortium show that online students score higher than the average in all catagories.
The history of distance learning is a lot longer than you might think. The gradual progression from correspondance to radio to television and now the internet have proved to be an interesting journey.
Can the new flood of online education, especially for K-12 online homeschooling, cause drastic changes to future generations and the way our social structure operates?
Although students taking online homeschooling for K-12 are scoring higher than the average, sociologist are afraid that there will be intense repurcussions from the lack of a more social setting during childhood developement.
Online for-profit schools are recently being regulated more closely than ever before due to fradulent practices and the large number of government subsidesed loans to for-profit schools.