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Author Topic: What do people make of online degrees (Bachelors, masters, doctoral)?  (Read 9980 times)
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« on: August 31, 2008, 03:16:11 PM »

What do people think about it?

Useful/Useless? Won't get recognized? A poor-man's way to get to be called 'doctor' (in the case of doctoral online degrees)?
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« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2008, 03:29:52 PM »

The search function isn't terrific, but you can find a number of other threads on this topic.
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« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2008, 03:37:06 PM »

http://www.ittl.org/DrTedSun.htm

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« Reply #3 on: August 31, 2008, 03:52:23 PM »

The search function isn't terrific, but you can find a number of other threads on this topic.

True, but the "browse" function is outstanding.

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« Reply #4 on: September 01, 2008, 07:04:45 PM »

What do people think about it?

Useful/Useless? Won't get recognized? A poor-man's way to get to be called 'doctor' (in the case of doctoral online degrees)?

On-line technology is here to stay. For some purposes it's simply cost effective. An on-line degree program will suffer from a "lemons problem", much as the used car market has in the past.
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« Reply #5 on: September 01, 2008, 08:42:37 PM »

The search function isn't terrific, but you can find a number of other threads on this topic.

True, but the "browse" function is outstanding.

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« Reply #6 on: September 03, 2008, 08:47:44 AM »

What do people think about it?

Useful/Useless? Won't get recognized? A poor-man's way to get to be called 'doctor' (in the case of doctoral online degrees)?

Actually, the opposite, that is, an online doctorate is a rich person's way of being called doctor, since most are offered by for-profit operations that offer little in the way of funding.

Many, if not most people who attend traditional, full time, bricks and mortar doctoral programs at public and non-profit universities attend at little or no cost to themselves.

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« Reply #7 on: September 03, 2008, 10:42:24 AM »

The search function isn't terrific, but you can find a number of other threads on this topic.

True, but the "browse" function is outstanding.

VP

Yes, you are correct.  I apologize.

Oh, no apology needed, didotwite! I was merely shining a light on an oft-underappreciated function, not so much a function of the fora as a function of the user. ;)

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« Reply #8 on: April 09, 2009, 04:19:40 PM »

60K later and still no job with an online degree.
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« Reply #9 on: April 11, 2009, 01:01:39 AM »

Well, that's the problem.  It still astonishes me that people feel they can get a job on the basis of an on-line degree, I mean for the degree's sake.  The only possible defense of the whole set-up I can imagine is for people who already have a job and want to move up within their institution or company.

Basically, caveat emptor.  Sorry.  It's hard to find, get, and keep jobs in the present economy even with a diploma from an established brick-and-mortar school.
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