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Rutgers University - 100 Percent Online Degrees. Interesting...esp for Business Admin - Christopher - 12-22-2014
It's interesting that Rugers University is moving into 100 percent online college. This must be something new within the last year as I never seen them offer full degrees online before. I wonder if they'll eventually go the way of the other big three. It's a good thing all around because it shows that if a big nationally known University such as Rutgers is moving into 100 percent online degrees that the "online college" thing isn't some shortcut or unrealistic college or college degree. It makes me wonder where in 10-15 years how many colleges will be fully online. Funny because in 2001 if I told anyone about 100 percent online degree they'd just consider it a diploma mill or home schooling college with little or no degree value. Now you have big state colleges and Universitys and local community colleges going fully online.
It seems Rutgers only has a few degree options right now, but the big one seems to be B.A.B.A. in Business Administration or Master of Arts in Liberal Studies.
Rutgers University | Online Master's & Bachelor's Degrees
Rutgers Online Business Administration Degree: http://online.rutgers.edu/ba-business-admin/
On a side note; I wonder if this is also to compete with the other state college of New Jersey. Thomas Edison State College. Rutgers even says you can study these degrees anywhere/anytime.
"With Rutgers Online, you pursue what’s next without putting your career and personal life on hold. Our online degree programs offer all the advantages of an on-campus education – same small classes, same one-on-one attention, same world-renowned faculty – plus the convenience and flexibility of learning from anywhere, at anytime"
Rutgers University - 100 Percent Online Degrees. Interesting...esp for Business Admin - sanantone - 12-22-2014
Nothing should be insinuated from this. Many traditional universities offer 100% online degrees and have been doing so for a long time including several in New Jersey. I don't think Rutgers cares about competing with Thomas Edison State College. They have two very different target markets. Those who will choose to attend Rutgers will mostly be concerned about school prestige. Those who will choose to attend TESC will mostly be concerned about a flexible credit transfer policy, getting college credit for certifications and the like, cost, and speed. If anything, Rutgers and TESC have more of a partnership collaborating on degree programs.
Offering 100% online degrees does not mean that a college is trying to be like the Big 3. The Big 3 are special in that they, technically, do not have a residency requirement (allow up to 120 transfer credits) and don't cap credits from nontraditional sources (CLEP, ACE, NCCRS, DSST, etc.). The Big 3 were founded in the 1970s. I don't think there has been a college since that has attempted their model, but thousands of colleges have started offering 100% online degrees in the past 10 years mostly in response to the growth of for-profit colleges and the growing number of working adults who want to attend college.
Rutgers University - 100 Percent Online Degrees. Interesting...esp for Business Admin - ajs1976 - 12-22-2014
PSU World Campus has been around for a number of years
Penn State Online | Degrees, Certificates, and Courses Offered Online from Penn State World Campus
Rutgers University - 100 Percent Online Degrees. Interesting...esp for Business Admin - cookderosa - 12-23-2014
Rutgers and TESC were almost merged in years past, clearly they wanted to move in this direction. I think it's great!
Rutgers University - 100 Percent Online Degrees. Interesting...esp for Business Admin - Prloko - 12-23-2014
Distance learning is not new, not even in the last 10 years. Many States which supported rural communities had correspondence studies and extension schools. It wasn't until the proliferation of the world wide wide and the advances in internet technology that these schools transferred their correspondence programs into the online realm. UWYo and OU have been doing this for years.
You are correct though that online education is gaining steam.
Rutgers University - 100 Percent Online Degrees. Interesting...esp for Business Admin - Christopher - 12-23-2014
Right. I just know back in the 1990s saying "online college" would be the same as saying "high school at home". We would say "not a real education, probably a fast track diploma mill." Not that they were, but the mental image was you go to college at one of the ground campuses like CSUN, UCLA, CAL-Luthern and so on. Or go to community college or out of state. It wasnt "Ill move on to online college now." But, now, it's very well accepted. A lot of colleges/universities are going that way. What I like now is that colleges especially online are moving to focus on adults. It was always the view colleges are/were for teens and twenty-somethings. When I started CC at 18/19 years old, we would see an older adult in class. Maybe in her 40s or 50s and honestly we would say "wow, she must be a divorcee having to go back to school to survive" or something like that. How rare it was too see older adults past 30 years old in the class rooms. Now it's all different.
Now with COSC, EXC, and TESC and some others, they mindset is college is also for adults, working adults, and doesnt have to be traditional. Why I'm going for online. I can't take mid-day classes at the University as I work. The 1PM-2PM M, W, F, courses that I took out of H.S. at CC where I was at school from 9AM-3PM four days a week. Nor do I want to at his point in my life unless I have to at the CC via night courses/online. At least CC offers some night courses and ours is going online more and more.
Prloko Wrote:Distance learning is not new, not even in the last 10 years. Many States which supported rural communities had correspondence studies and extension schools. It wasn't until the proliferation of the world wide wide and the advances in internet technology that these schools transferred their correspondence programs into the online realm. UWYo and OU have been doing this for years.
You are correct though that online education is gaining steam.
Rutgers University - 100 Percent Online Degrees. Interesting...esp for Business Admin - cookderosa - 12-23-2014
Christopher Wrote:Right. I just know back in the 1990s saying "online college" would be the same as saying "high school at home". We would say "not a real education, probably a fast track diploma mill." Not that they were, but the mental image was you go to college at one of the ground campuses like CSUN, UCLA, CAL-Luthern and so on. Or go to community college or out of state. It wasnt "Ill move on to online college now." But, now, it's very well accepted. A lot of colleges/universities are going that way. What I like now is that colleges especially online are moving to focus on adults. It was always the view colleges are/were for teens and twenty-somethings. When I started CC at 18/19 years old, we would see an older adult in class. Maybe in her 40s or 50s and honestly we would say "wow, she must be a divorcee having to go back to school to survive" or something like that. How rare it was too see older adults past 30 years old in the class rooms. Now it's all different.
Now with COSC, EXC, and TESC and some others, they mindset is college is also for adults, working adults, and doesnt have to be traditional. Why I'm going for online. I can't take mid-day classes at the University as I work. The 1PM-2PM M, W, F, courses that I took out of H.S. at CC where I was at school from 9AM-3PM four days a week. Nor do I want to at his point in my life unless I have to at the CC via night courses/online. At least CC offers some night courses and ours is going online more and more.
LOL au contraire many of us were (and are) doing high school at home in the 90's! But, your point wasn't lost on me, I get what you were trying to say.
Rutgers University - 100 Percent Online Degrees. Interesting...esp for Business Admin - sanantone - 12-23-2014
Prloko Wrote:Distance learning is not new, not even in the last 10 years. Many States which supported rural communities had correspondence studies and extension schools. It wasn't until the proliferation of the world wide wide and the advances in internet technology that these schools transferred their correspondence programs into the online realm. UWYo and OU have been doing this for years.
You are correct though that online education is gaining steam.
True. Correspondence education has been around for decades, but the widespread use of online delivery is relatively new. I'm a little too young to remember, but I'm going to ask, how widespread was the use of correspondence education before distance learning switched to mostly the Internet? From what I've read, there was never much support for adult learners outside of night and weekend courses on campus.
Rutgers University - 100 Percent Online Degrees. Interesting...esp for Business Admin - Christopher - 12-23-2014
In the 1980s/early 1990s there were pretty much no distant learning schools. You had your regular local âAdult Schoolâ like we have here. Ours is run by the school district and is designed for adults to take non-college vocational classes (like Cosmetology, CNA training, typing, computer skills, GED, certifications, et al.) Some colleges (like ours) had Video classes where you would get something like 18 weeks of VHS videos you would rent from the campus book store, that goes with each week, and physically come in once a week to take the exam. But there was pretty much no distant learning for college or vocational schools outside of VHS tapes schooling or whatever they used at the time. Everyone who lives during the 1980s knows about the Sally Struthers commercials. Some of the comic shows made jokes about it. But, the reality is, this was pretty much the only distant learning program via mail. I actually remember asking my grandmother back around 1992 when once seeing one of these commercials âhow can anyone become a license electrician studying over the mail?â I posted a YouTube video of a normal typical ICS Sally Struthers commercial. I really donât know how the program work or if it worked how accredited it was, but that was pretty much it. When online college/courses first started taking hold in the early 2000s many looked at it as no different. I admit I did too. But, times have changed and so has the technology. Its like in 1993 you would never seen an email address or website on a commercial. Now thatâs all you see on commercials for contacting.
1991 Sally Struthers Distant Learning Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBuV_7X8mI4
sanantone Wrote:True. Correspondence education has been around for decades, but the widespread use of online delivery is relatively new. I'm a little too young to remember, but I'm going to ask, how widespread was the use of correspondence education before distance learning switched to mostly the Internet? From what I've read, there was never much support for adult learners outside of night and weekend courses on campus.
Rutgers University - 100 Percent Online Degrees. Interesting...esp for Business Admin - sanantone - 12-24-2014
I vaguely remember those commercials. LOL. ICS is now Penn Foster College and Career School! Their ACE-approved courses are popular with this forum's members. You can still become an electrician or plumber by correspondence training. hilarious When I started attending college online back in 2005, it was awkward trying to explain it to people; it was even awkward in 2010. Now, I even see traditional college professors are latching onto the idea.
Oh, man. My school didn't even have an online course management system like Moodle, Blackboard, or Canvas. We communicated through news groups in Outlook. It was primitive.
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