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 Heather Ellison, 36, works as a restaurant manager in Rodney, Minnesota, while earning a master of business administration (MBA) at Baker College Online. She is a winner of a GetEducated.com $1,000 distance learning scholarship award.
Ellison is a single mother working 50+ hours a week, so distance learning became the only option for her to achieve a higher education. She attended a university directly out of high school, but dropped out during her last semester.
After working in the restaurant industry since she was sixteen, Ellison now values the importance of a college degree. She explains, “This is not where I saw myself being, and this is not where my passions lie.”
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The University of Wisconsin System has launched a new online education portal called eCampus, http://ecampus.wisconsin.edu, to showcase information about online degree programs and non-degree continuing education programs offered by the 26 campuses of the UW System.
{{LeftSponsor46}}According to Wisconsin distance learning officials, only one in four adults in Wisconsin has successfully earned a four-year college degree. This rate is slightly below the national average. To boost Wisconsin’s economy, and improve employment opportunities, the UW System is beefing up access to online continuing education and degree programs.
The publicly-funded Wisconsin System hopes to increase the number of UW degrees by 30 percent. Such an increase would mean about 80,000 more college graduates in the state labor pool in the next 15 years.
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Education Trust, a non-profit research group that analyzes statistics on the cost and return of American higher education programs, has issued an eye-opening report on how the largest for-profit universities in America compare to their public and private non-profit peers.
Some of the largest online university systems in the USA are cited unfavorably in the Education Trust’s report, including America’s largest enroller of online students: The University of Phoenix Online.
The report faults the University of Phoenix for its graduation rate of only 5% for online bachelor degree students who enroll through the online programs of this university system. The national graduate rate average among the ten largest for profit bachelor degree colleges is about 20%.{{LeftSponsor53}}
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 Dayna Shong, 39, works as an inpatient coder at Regions Hospital in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and is the winner of a GetEducated.com $1,000 Excellence in Online Education Scholarship. She will use the free college grant to pursue an online bachelor of science in health degree at Dakota State University.
After landing a job in retail, which paid the bills but did not provide a lot of personal satisfaction, Shong began looking through an occupational handbook at the library in search of a more satisfying career. Health administration immediately sparked her interest. In the fall of 2002, she signed up for an online course in Medical Terminology.
“I decided to take the most difficult class I could find to prove myself during my first semester. I studied harder than I ever have in my life,” explains Shong. “To this day, this is my favorite class. I found studying about anatomy, physiology, procedures, and vocabulary fascinating. I was hooked from day one.”
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By GetEducated Consumer Reporting Team
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A new study may finally put to rest the long debate over whether online classes are as good as traditional residential learning. Research by Rowan University found that the key to completing a degree program depends on the type of student rather than the educational delivery method.
In the 2010 study the New Jersey based university measured student retention, which refers to whether a student who begins a course or a degree program completes that course or degree program. The study revealed that certain types of student – the non-traditional, older, working mom and single parents who work full-time – stand a better chance of completing online classes than completing residential classes.
{{LeftSponsor53}}Real-life examples abound. Cecilia Parmer chose to pursue an online masters in Library and Information Science from San Jose State University after considering campus alternatives.
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