e-Learning Pundit

CSUSB offers a online couple programs which may be of interest to certain readers.

- According to this report in the Press-Enterprise, CSUSB is scheduled to teach an “online professional certificate program for downtown development and economic redevelopment professionals, city administrators and elected officials”.  Course costs are $495 for each of the four courses.

- In partnership with San Diego State University, CSUSB also offers this Online Professional Certificate in Sustainable Practices.  5 courses required.  Early indicators suggest each course costs $295, but check with the university for more info about fees.

A couple more Green Industry certificate programs are available over the web through CSUSB  as well.  

Conference basketball tournaments now in progress.

+ Many more new online degree programs are coming to University of Memphis (TN).

…The university will offer 18 new degree programs, including bachelor’s degrees in philosophy, African-American studies, business administration and nursing, plus master’s degrees in teaching, health administration and history. The new offerings will add to U of M’s 22 courses of study already online…

Online bachelor’s degrees in philosophy are indeed rare. And great seeing more graduate history degrees offered at a distance.

+ Michigan Technological University: new online MBA.  Cost: $38,000.

+ Great news! Brandeis University (MA) plans to expand its online graduate programs. 

+ From USA Today: “Distance ed students forming college clubs online“.

+ Free Microsoft e-learning vouchers are now available for California residents. 

+ Another Tolkien class, through Binghamton University (NY), will be taught at a distance. 

+ Courses for the International Baccalaureate are apparently going on the web. 

+ Salle Mae (SLM Corp) introduces new online savings accounts.  The target audience?  Families saving for college.  

+ At Tennessee Tech University, a 75-year young student is scheduled to graduate in May.  Classes offered by the TTU online program helped him achieve his goal.

Have a great weekend!

The Billings Gazette (MT) published a monster series about collegiate-level, online learning through Montana State University Billings.

+ “Montana universities offering more online classes as technology advances”.

+ “Two MSUB students say online classes are demanding but offer more flexibility”.

+ “MSUB faculty members weigh pros and cons of online instruction”.

+ “Studies show cheating, plagiarism no more prevalent online than in traditional classrooms”.

+ “How do online classes work?”

Cool stuff!

+ Update: “Classes at MSU-Bozeman reaching students from across United States.”

Available here.  Excellent breakdown.

Why can’t more colleges engage in this sort of disclosure?

TGIF!

+ Marylhurst University (OR): New online MBA with a real estate emphasis.  

+ University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey: Online graduate certficate program in Aging.

+ Drexel University (PA): Special Education Certfication program, online. 

+ Higher tuition for online classes over traditional?

+ Nationwide protests against college education funding cuts.

+ Is the proposed City University of New York online college meeting some resistance?

+ In Louisiana: “Substantial growth in online degree enrollments”.

+ Texas A&M-Commerce goes Second Life.

+ Assorted distance education experts provide their responses to these important questions:

Who benefits most from online courses — students or colleges? Are online classes as educationally effective as in-classroom instruction? Should more post-secondary education take place online?

Have a wonderful weekend!

How about this three-course series taught online by University of Wisconsin-Manitowoc?

$495 total for all three courses, or $195 per.

Governor Jindal proposes legislation which may increase tuition at state universities in Bayou country.

…Remedial classes would disappear at four-year schools, along with most associate degree programs, in an effort to steer students seeking those courses to less expensive community colleges. Online courses would have to be expanded.

In exchange, schools could raise their tuition and fee costs — without a vote of the Legislature — by up to 10 percent a year until they reach the average of similar schools in the South. LSU would be able to raise its tuition until it reaches the average of similar flagship schools nationally….

Louisiana universities, especially Louisiana Tech University and Northwestern State University, offer some of the most affordable tuition rates for online learners in the USA.  This includes out-of-state residents.

If undecided about taking a masters or bachelors online, now may be a good time to act. 

NCAA basketball tourney starts up soon!

+ Penn State University: New online masters in Homeland Security.

+ From The Daily Northwestern (Northwestern University, IL) has this short piece on its online graduate degree opportunities through the School of Continuing Studies.

+ Online courses now outnumber live offerings at Barstow Community College (CA).

+ Both Binghamton and South Alabama have jumped on the online medical billing/medical transcription course bandwagon.

+ From the Georgetown University (DC) student newspaper: “Intellect virtually absent in the online classroom”.

+ Distance learning at this college in Watertown, NY is considered “lifelike”.

Have a wonderful weekend!

The article is available here.  Be sure to check out the other special reports near the end.  Good stuff.   

OK, then check out this article from BankInfoSecurity.com.  There is much valuable information contained in this great piece.