Posted by bposton on November 29th, 2006 — Posted in associate online degree programs
Remember the report I told you about that showed an increase in online enrollments?
Well I thought you might like to know that this increase is being seen across the country
at many universities.
Take Ball State, for example.
The Ball State School of Extended Education has a 9 month independent learning program and a ten-week fast track program, The independent learning program has about half of its classes online and allows students to work at their own pace in a nine-month period. The fast track program has all of its classes online and students have to finish their work within the 10 weeks.
Ball State is reporting that registration for the online independent learning programs is increasing. The online independent learning programs were started in 2005, and offer the entire core curriculum. Students must also complete two minors that the school of extended education developed.
Online enrollment has almost doubled at Ball State. However, they are seeing more graduate level students that undergraduate students at this time.
Jim Flowers, professor and director of online education in the Department of Technology, said the department’s two master’s degree programs skyrocketed in enrollment numbers. He said offering online courses gave an advantage because of different perspectives from students around the country and world. Indiana does not require a master’s degree for education, so Flowers said Ball State can service a greater population of students.
He commented that the graduate students who are online are students who have already done teaching, and have already established houses and families, so they’re able to provide a different perspective to things.
Ben
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Posted by bposton on October 31st, 2006 — Posted in engineering degree online
First of all - Happy Halloween!! I hope you’ll be a good little ghost tonight and get lots of candy 
I’m going to take a little time today to share with you some of my research from the October US News and World Report University and College rankings. That way, you’ll get an idea of how they measured the online schools that the focused on in this issue.
In this post, I’m listing the top 20 newest schools. Each school is listed below based on year they began offering online classes. Some of these are pretty well know, such as SMU and South Carolina. Other’s…well at least I have never heard of some of them.
So here they are - drumroll please …
Briar Cliff University (IA) 2006
Edison State Community College (OH) 2006
Pima County Community College District (AZ) 2006
Southern Methodist University (TX) 2006
St. Louis Community College (MO) 2006
Toccoa Falls College (GA) 2006
University of Mississippi (MS) 2006
Chatham College (PA) 2005
Cleary University (MI) 2005
Culver-Stockton College (MO) 2005
Edgecombe Community College (NC) 2005
Mohawk Valley Community College (NY) 2005
Northern Illinois University (IL) 2005
Research College of Nursing (MO) 2005
Rutgers–New Brunswick (NJ) 2005
SUNY–Plattsburgh (NY) 2005
Southern Oregon University (OR) 2005
Spartanburg Technical College (SC) 2005
St. Clair County Community College (MI) 2005
St. Edward’s University (TX) 2005
St. Vincent’s College (CT) 2005
Thunderbird, The Garvin School of International Management (AZ) 2005
Triton College (IL) 2005
University of Mary (ND) 2005
University of South Carolina–Columbia (SC) 2005
University of Texas Health Science Center–San Antonio (TX) 2005
York Technical College (SC) 2005
Ben
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Posted by bposton on October 15th, 2006 — Posted in engineering degree online
I saw an interested little snippet in USA Today.
It was a survey of adults who wanted to return to school and what their biggest challenge was.
Some the biggest challenges (according to this study) came down to these:
Number 5 - Attending classes regularly
Number 4 - Making a committment for how long it will take
Number 3 - Providing for a family while in school
Number 2 - Finding the money to pay for school
And Numero Uno on the list - managing other committments as well as attending school.
According to the study, 73% of adults wanting to return to school had this problem.
To me, these all sorta boil down to time and money. Mainly time.
So how do you overcome these roadblocks to getting a better education?
Well, that’s what this blog is about, and hopefully as I learn more about all the possiblities, I can impart some of this newfound wisdom to you.
Stay tuned,
Ben
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