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Online Certificates - Cheaper, Faster, Better than a College Degree?
Online Education Information  >  Online Learning Statistics & Education News
By Vicky Phillips   
 

What’s faster, cheaper, and more affordable than a college degree?

Woman recieving her online certicate

Online Certificates Offer College Credentials Without the Hefty Price
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A new higher education report by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce suggests that online certificates – often dismissed by colleges themselves -- may be the new super-food in the higher education chain.


If you crave a fatter wallet, let go old-fashioned dreams of a college degree – earn an online certificate, instead, suggests the Georgetown researchers in their new higher education report, Certificates: Gateway to Gainful Employment and College Degrees.


The Georgetown report concluded that certificates, whether earned online or on campus, often outperform two year and four year degrees in terms of cash return. The average worker with a certificate saw 20 percent fatter pay checks than peers with only high school diplomas.


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Faculty Fear Growth of e-Learning in Canada
Online Education Information  >  Online Learning Statistics & Education News
By Vicky Phillips   
 

The government of Ontario, Canada would like to convert at least 60% of all undergraduate post-secondary courses to an e-learning format.


That's a lot of courses.


The province's teachers, for their part, made it clear last week that they do not support the government's aggressive push toward online learning at the college level.


The results of a province-wide survey of professors, released last week by the Ontario Association of University Faculty Association (OAUFA), revealed that the vast majority -- 86% of Canadian faculty - believe that converting 60% of undergraduate courses to an online format would irreparably "harm the quality of university education."

 

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Online CME Survey Reveals Physicians Fussy About Online Medical Education
Online Education Information  >  Online Learning Statistics & Education News
By Vicky Phillips   
 
Survey Reveals Doctors Needs with Medical Education Online

A recent survey of 971 physicians has revealed that doctors like medical education online, but only in so much as it meets their fussy specifications.

Physicians prefer online cme that is immediately relevant to patient outcomes and delivered after work hours (but before dinner). They also much prefer a presenter who does not have a nasally voice.

And oh yes, physicians also prefer to access cme online using their favored computing device. The majority of all physicians (76%) used laptops and desktops for Internet access. 45% owned iPads, while 52% used iphones. Only about 25% reported using smart phones that were not made by Apple.

The findings of the online cme physician survey, co-sponsored by a virtual conferencing group On24, reveal physicians to be much like the rest of us when it comes to sitting through continuing education online.

Below are some statistical highlights from the report.


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Washington University Enters Top Online Law Degree Market
Hot Careers  >  Justice, Law & Legal Studies
By Vicky Phillips, Chief Education Analyst   
 
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Washington University Student Enters Top Online Law Degree Market

Washington University School of Law, in St. Louis, has long been touted as a top residential law school. The school surprised many—and shocked some—last week by announcing they will begin offering a new online law degree. Washington's first online class of legal eagles will take their virtual seats in January 2013.

The Washington University online law degree will be tightly targeted. The new degree will be a master of laws in U.S. law for foreign lawyers (LLM)—not a juris doctorate degree (JD).

It’s significant that the new online legal degree will be a master's in law (LLM), not a JD degree. The JD is the blue chip choice for students who aspire to sit for the bar exam. The JD is the classic degree earned by top trial lawyers.

The American Bar Association (ABA) has thus far refused to approve any online JD degree. Instead, the ABA is allowing approved residential law schools, such as Washington, to offer a new generation of online law degrees at the master's level.


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14 Online Learning Challenges at Community Colleges
Online Education Information  >  Online Learning Statistics & Education News
By Vicky Phillips   
 

Ever wonder if the online learning team at your community college is anywhere near normal?  Is your distance learning program facing the same challenges as peer institutions across the nation?

The Instructional Technology Council (ITC), a non-profit organization that tracks online learning trends at community colleges across the nation, has come up with a loose list of 14 generalized indicators of what “normal” may look like deep inside two-year colleges when it comes to the impact of distance learning. This loose list is based on a survey of 143 accredited institutions that responded to ITC’s annual distance learning trends survey, published March 2012.

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