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Hybrid MBA versus Online MBA: When and Why to Pay for Face Time
Expert Advice  >  Online MBA
By Get Educated Consumer Reporting Team   
 
Online Hybrid MBA|Two business men shaking hands holding drinks

If Networking is Important to You, Definitely Opt for the Hybrid MBA
(MacKinnon Photography/flickr)

Top residential business schools — we’re talking Duke University and the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler — are spawning online MBA programs at lightening pace.

Yet every elite residential b-school has opted for an online hybrid MBA format. An online hybrid MBA delivers all courses on the web, but require spats of time on campus for what educators call “immersion experiences.”

UNC Kenan-Flagler, for example, offers an online hybrid MBA program where all required courses are offered on the web, but online students are required to attend three-day immersion weekends at the beginning of each quarter of enrollment. (Attendance is required at two of these immersion experiences each enrollment year.)

Attending an online hybrid MBA program that requires face-time can add up to $5,000 — travel, room and board, meals, time off work — to the sticker price of a distance degree.{{ad103}}

Another possible hybrid bummer: You probably won’t be allowed to tap the company coffers to pay for that additional airfare and room and board required for those immersion experiences. Most corporate tuition assistance programs only reimburse for tuition.

The big question: is b-school face time really worth that extra wad of cash? 

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Breivik Sold Fake Diplomas to Fund Killing Spree
Diploma Mill Police  >  Fake Diploma News
By Vicky Phillips   
 
Breivik next to policeman in car

Breivik Leaving Courthouse
(on-Are Berg-Jacobsen/AFP/Getty Images)


According to reports published in the University World News, the worst mass murderer in Norwegian history, Anders Behring Breivik, funded his killing sprees by operating a fake diploma and college credentials business online. The fake diplomas were hand-crafted in Asia to look as if they had been issued by Ivy League universities in the USA.

Breivik, the notorious gunman who killed 77 innocent young campers on Utoya Island, Norway, admits to having netted over a million dollars by running a racket that cranked out fake diplomas online.

The fraud catered largely to buyers from the United States. Brejvik sold a reported 200 fake diploma packets a month to Internet shoppers.

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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
(Seevic College/flickr)

 
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 paychecks 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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