Have you heard good - or bad - things about an online college? Share which online universities you feel are the best in a reputation review.
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Vicky Phillips -- Founder of GetEducated.com ... "for 20 years the leading consumer advocate for online college students" ... Different Paths to a College Degree, Sept. 2009
Vicky Phillips ... founder of GetEducated.com ... "one of the nation’s leading experts on educational fraud" ... . ~Joyce Lain Kennedy~ (Nov, 2009), LA Times
"Kiplinger Personal Finance" partners with Get Educated - Top 15 Picks Prestigious Online Masters Degrees
Get Educated helps LATimes Consumer Reporter David Lazarus in "Getting an Education Learning Over the Internet" -- Nov. 10, 2010
Get Educated's beloved mascot, Chester Ludlow, dog with online MBA, helps Neely Tucker, Washington Post reporter, expose murderous minister with degree mill pedigree - Dec. 2010
Is online education as effective as face-to-face learning at the college level?
The U.S. Department of Education analyzed research studies undertaken from 1996 to 2008 that address this topic and has concluded the following:
1) Online education is more effective than face-to-face learning;
2) Online learning combined with some face-to-face learning (blended learning) is the most effective;
3) Face-to-face learning alone is the least effective method among the three types studied.
The government report analyzed 51 factors that seem to influence learning efficacy and concluded that what appears to make online learning more effective is not what many academics have believed. For example, the study found that adding video and online quizzes or other forms of razzle-dazzle does not increase educational efficacy. What seems to give online and blended education their significant power boost is time spent on learning combined with the additional communication opportunities that online delivery afford.
These findings are specific to college-level learning as the researchers found that not enough studies exist to merit a valid comparison at the K-12 level.
