NO MORE COLLEGE--AS WE KNOW IT

[njustice]

an ex of mine, who finished second in her class at UL in accounting, was able to go through a fast track program through U-Conn and earned her Masters in Accountancy in 9 months (she met with her professors 1 time 1 week before the first semester started, then the rest was all online.) cost her over $20k in that time frame but she graduated UL and U-Conn (which is no slouch of a university) in the same year then got a job for a Big 4 accounting firm in houston...by the age of 22.

I'm not saying that there won't be some overlap, and that there won't be exceptions. This will be particularly true in anything technical. Talent is talent, wherever you find it.

Going back to the MBA point though, there are lots of soft skills that need to be developed in a program like that, and an online degree just won't cut it.

[irokcj5]

There are some good challenging programs where one can learn a lot. However not being able to learn communication skills and argue your point with professors and classmates in real time and in person is a huge deficit that cannot be over come. I am currently engaged in online learning. Will it ever be as respected as a brick and mortor degree? Of course not. But it is better than not having a degree. Just like small colleges will not carry same weight and prestige of larger ones, and most state colleges not as much as Harvard and Yale or Oxford. So there are limits to the education you recieve at all levels of learning but any is better than none.

[njustice]

There are some good challenging programs where one can learn a lot. However not being able to learn communication skills and argue your point with professors and classmates in real time and in person is a huge deficit that cannot be over come. I am currently engaged in online learning. Will it ever be as respected as a brick and mortor degree? Of course not. But it is better than not having a degree. Just like small colleges will not carry same weight and prestige of larger ones, and most state colleges not as much as Harvard and Yale or Oxford. So there are limits to the education you recieve at all levels of learning but any is better than none.

I definitely agree. I wasn't meaning to say that online programs aren't useful and effective, because they are. I was just saying that it won't replace college as we know it because there will always be a market need for it.

[Turbine]

I definitely agree. I wasn't meaning to say that online programs aren't useful and effective, because they are. I was just saying that it won't replace college as we know it because there will always be a market need for it.

to your point, even Phoenix is setting up brick and mortar in Lafayette.

[LOVAQUE]

to your point, even Phoenix is setting up brick and mortar in Lafayette.

There was a University of Phoenix campus here but I think they are either closing or have already closed shop.

[Turbine]

There was a University of Phoenix campus here but I think they are either closing or have already closed shop.

Oh, I thought they were moving locations.

http://Online.Louisiana.edu must have reclaimed some thunder.

[irokcj5]

I definitely agree. I wasn't meaning to say that online programs aren't useful and effective, because they are. I was just saying that it won't replace college as we know it because there will always be a market need for it.

. We're in full agreement. Was just putting my thoughts out there.

[Boomer]

. We're in full agreement. Was just putting my thoughts out there.

---My S in L has used this "go to meetings" I think that is what you call it---anyway they had a guy in P Rico, Chicago, B-Ham, and NO all in the same place on a screen---that to me is amazing!!!

[jric116]

---My S in L has used this "go to meetings" I think that is what you call it---anyway they had a guy in P Rico, Chicago, B-Ham, and NO all in the same place on a screen---that to me is amazing!!!

Given the availability of technology today you can have the same experience as being in the classroom but you do not have to be physically in the same location as the rest of the class. I have completed most of my doctoral courses that way and am writing my dissertation on that topic. Microsoft live meeting is one tool that can be used. Hate to admit it but LSU is doing this in some areas. It's about money. More students without the need for more classroom space. It is real time just like sitting in class

[California Cajun]

Just read an ad on T-Bine's News where you can get an MBA at LSUS in 12 months at a great price (ON LINE)----Don't have to leave your house I guess---Just wondering if the schools of the future will all be this way---you could actually have the greatest teachers in the world teaching everybody or you could have the ideology/philosophy teacher of your choice teaching your classes-----Oh and the football and sports teams could still recruit but once you have signed them it would be a fantasy game!!!

This will flourish for a while, then some schools starved for revenue will be exposed as diploma factories, and then they will reform the system.

The internet has been great but has isolated us from people. It works for us late middle-agers because for the majority of our lives there was no such thing and we can relive the things we experienced hands-on with our computers.

But a generation may arise in total isolation and the internet may not do as much for them if they didn't have the experiences we did.

High tech, high touch, maybe we ought to dust off an old copy of Megatrends and find our way again.

[CajunJack55]

This will flourish for a while, then some schools starved for revenue will be exposed as diploma factories, and then they will reform the system.

The internet has been great but has isolated us from people. It works for us late middle-agers because for the majority of our lives there was no such thing and we can relive the things we experienced hands-on with our computers.

But a generation may arise in total isolation and the internet may not do as much for them if they didn't have the experiences we did.

High tech, high touch, maybe we ought to dust off an old copy of Megatrends and find our way again.

If you have netflix, watch the mini series Black Mirror for a glimpse of our high tech future...scary stuff.