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
Looking for ways to improve online course design? Experienced online educators at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater have compiled a list of 10 practical tips, covering both design and the nitty-gritty of online course management.
Online business instructors Richard J. Wagner, Jeff P. Vanevenhoven, and James W. Bronson based their online course design and management tips on personal experience, research, and information from other online faculty.
Their tips include:
* "Begin each module with a roadmap.”
Students who may be new to online learning need to have clear guidelines: how to use the texts, how grading works, how the course will be structured. One way to do this, suggests Wagner and his colleagues, is to open parts of the online course several weeks early, so that students can virtually explore and become familiar with areas such as the course bulletin board and syllabus.
* Require students to complete at least one assignment per week, to keep students engaged. Make the first assignment relatively easy to allow time to deal with technical problems or other questions from students new to the course management system.
* Contact students who have not participated in the first week of class to make sure everything is OK.
