pentiumcake
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« on: August 31, 2008, 03:16:11 PM » |
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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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didotwite
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« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2008, 03:29:52 PM » |
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The search function isn't terrific, but you can find a number of other threads on this topic.
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king_ghidorah
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« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2008, 03:37:06 PM » |
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Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to myself, where the heck is the ceiling??
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voxprincipalis
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« Reply #3 on: August 31, 2008, 03:52:23 PM » |
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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 |
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dismalist
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« Reply #4 on: September 01, 2008, 07:04:45 PM » |
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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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didotwite
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« Reply #5 on: September 01, 2008, 08:42:37 PM » |
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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. |
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zharkov
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« Reply #6 on: September 03, 2008, 08:47:44 AM » |
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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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__________ Zharkov's Razor: Adapting Zharkov a bit to this situation, ignorance and confusion can explain a lot.
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voxprincipalis
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« Reply #7 on: September 03, 2008, 10:42:24 AM » |
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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. ;) VP |
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grnsam
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« Reply #8 on: April 09, 2009, 04:19:40 PM » |
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60K later and still no job with an online degree.
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yellowtractor
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« Reply #9 on: April 11, 2009, 01:01:39 AM » |
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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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Just go and collapse in someone's office and moan, "You've got to help me; I just can't be the guy who brings the ham." |
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