Nowadays you can get your doctrate online! My brother took online classes and when you take a test all you have to do is google the question and get an answer...I just don't think online degrees should be considered as good as in class degrees. Agree?
2007-12-03 11:57:51 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
Like the responses before me, I disagree with your assessment of online degrees. I earned my bachelor's degree through an online program and was very pleased with the whole process. I took classes from two different programs and found them to be very different. I'm sure there are excellent online programs as well as mediocre online programs. Neither program I took classes from had online testing where it would be possible to google a question.
The main thing people should make sure of is that whatever program they sign up for is accredited. A degree from an accredited online school is just as good as a degree from an accredited brick-and-morter school. Despite having an online degree, I had no problem getting accepted to law school... so the degree must not be completely worthless!!
2007-12-03 13:42:19 · answer #1 · answered by Geni T 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't agree. Anyone can find a way to cheat if they really want to -- online or not. I suspect that Googling answers on that test was cheating. That means your brother didn't "take" on online class, he cheated. Most quality online classes don't have that sort of test though so cheating won't help a bit.
Did your brother take a class in an online doctorate program? If not, your comparison isn't valid.
I've been in classroom classes where we took tests and all you had to do was look in your notes/book for the answer - that doesn't invalidate those classes. I've been in classroom classes where student X took an exam for student Y, that doesn't mean classrooms are bad. Some people always find the easy way out. That catches up to them later.
Try taking an online class at a quality program before you pass judgement. I'd suggest one at Brigham Young or Louisianna State (they're relatively inexpensive). Once you've completed one like that, tell us whether it was easy or not. ☺ If you'd really like to be challenged, try an online class from Harvard or UC-Berkeley.
Remember, just because some people cheat doesn't mean that those who didn't cheat didn't learn what they were supposed to.
Also know that people earning a doctorate (or even a master's) don't take a lot of "tests" as you know them. Multiple guess tests pretty much end toward the end of your bachelor's degree. Advanced students write papers - very long papers - and then defend those papers to people who have a doctorate already. You can't Google that sort of thing.
One way to tell if the online degree is "as good as" the in-the-seat is to compare GRE/MAT/GMAT scores from each. I'll put my MAT scores against anyone who wants to and one of my degrees is from Excelsior College by distance learning. My MAT percentile score was 98th. Of course, other people's mileage may vary depending on where they went to school and whether they cheated on their exams and papers.
2007-12-03 13:17:38 · answer #2 · answered by CoachT 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't agree. I completed my master's with an online program. With the program I did, I actually learned methods that I was able to impliment in my profession. I was able to take these methods and philosophies and integrate them into curriculum and lessons to make my classroom and lessons more effective. I had a small cohort and we became very close through out the program. It was great. The program was project based with a large portfolio project that we had to complete to graduate. We worked on it throught the entire project. We didn't take a single test. We wrote a lot of papers! I mean a lot of papers! The classes were disscussion based and paper/project based. I went to Indiana Wesleyan University. I highly suggest it!
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