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When Maurice Rico, a senior process engineer in El Paso, TX, enrolled in Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business online degree program, a top ranked distance learning MBA, he wasn’t sure he had picked the best online school—until he participated in a mandatory, one-week online residency before classes began.
Rico, 40, flew from Texas to Indiana for the one-week online residency, paying airfare out of his own pocket (the school paid for housing and meals for the campus residency). The “very intense” week of coursework, case studies, and networking allowed him to meet his teachers and fellow online students.
Rico now says the online campus residency requirement confirmed that the Kelley Direct distance degree program was the right online MBA program for him. “It made me feel a lot better about how well-structured and solid it was,” Rico says.
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 Regina White, 42, is a winner of the Fall 2010 GetEducated / Core 4 Women $1,000 online scholarship. She is a member of the Athabascan Indian tribe and resides in Fairbanks, Alaska, where she is pursuing a Bachelor degree in Social Work from the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
White is a trailblazer in her family. She is the first member to obtain a high school GED and the first to attend a university.
Attending college is White’s life-long dream. It hasn’t been easy. The Native American has had to surmount physical disabilities, negotiate geographic barriers and overcome financial hurdles to reach her goal.
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 For Cecilia Parmar, an online Masters degree is a “practical” solution to cramming a quality education into an already full life. The working mother is a winner of the Fall 2010 GetEducated and Core 4 Women $1,000 online college scholarship.
Parmar, 42, works as an Administrative Assistant in Monroe Township, New Jersey, while pursuing her second online Masters degree, this one in Library and Information Science. She is fascinated by archival studies, but with constant changes in her work schedule and her daughter’s school schedule, she feared traditional on-campus classes would interrupt the balance in her lifestyle.
She explains, “When I decided that I wanted to be a librarian, I knew that I could not move to attend graduate school. My family, work and responsibilities lay firmly where I live. Therefore, I thought my choices of study were very limited with only two schools within a two hour drive of my home in central New Jersey.”
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 Rebecca Danielson, a working mother with three young daughters, is a winner of the Fall 2010 GetEducated / Core 4 Women $1,000 online college scholarship. She is a recruiter at Ralcorp Holdings Inc., and pursues a Bachelors degree in Business Administration / Human Resource Management.
As a full-time working mother, Danielson, 32, opted to pursue an online degree after she realized it would be too difficult to manage her time and resources while attending traditional residential colleges. In 2008, she decided to take online courses through Baker College Online.
Danielson explains, “My decision to pursue my dream was driven by my desire to become a more well-rounded individual, a more valuable asset to my employer, and to broaden my skills and knowledge base.”
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By GetEducated.com Consumer Reporting Team
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A special online education statistics infographic from the Chronicle of Higher Education (November 2011) reveals that online learning continues to grow.
Er, wait, the tern "grow" may be an understatement. Gobbling steroids with two-fisted gusto may be more like it.
In the last decade, online-only course enrollments in higher education climbed from .78 million to a possible 3.97 million in 2014 (projections from Eduventures).
Moreover, community college surveys cited by the special report indicate that many high education insiders report that their institutions remain largely unable to meet swelling student demand for online courses.{{ad46}} |
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