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Veterans Are Getting An Online Education

8:29 PM | Posted by Shay Villere | | Edit Post
Many veterans are people who went directly into the service from high school. Other never did finish college because they could not afford it and opted to join the military instead. This is a problem for those who do not choose a career in the serivce. They come home and have problems finding a good job because they are not qualified. What is the answer? How about going online and getting and education that will allow them to find meaningful work for a decent pay! Amy Scott writes about this at Marketplace.org: http://www.marketplace.org/topics/life/education/theres-huge-market-online-education-veterans. Educating veterans is big business because of the large amount of financial aid available. This is money well spent. Helping those who serve and protect is noble and necessary.

U.S. News and World Report has a ranking of online programs for military veterans.

The top 10 Online Bachelors Degree programs for Veterans:

1. Pace University 2. Brandman University 3. Bellevue University 4. Regent University 5. University of Nebraska - Omaha 6. Charter Oak State College 7. Post University 8. Ball State University 9. Fort Hays State University 10. California Baptist University

The top 10 Online MBA programs for Veterans:

1. Washington State University 2. Central Michigan University 3. University of Nebraska - Lincoln 4. Temple University (Fox) 5. West Virginia University 6. University of Colorado - Denver 7. University of Mississippi 8. Ball State University (Miller) 9. University of Memphis (Fogelman) 10. Columbia College

The problem for many veterans is they have families and a busy life. This makes it difficult to attend a regular college or technical school. One answer is to go on the Internet and get a degree that way.

Besides the convenience, there are many excellent programs that veterans had to choose from.

Michael Dakduk directs the Student Veterans of America. He says "Online learning is very convenient for adult learners, so military veterans naturally gravitate toward programs that are online."

This is great and a perfect example of what needs to be done to get America back to work and more specifically in this case veterans.
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Think You Can Cheat On Online Tests? Think Again!

11:11 PM | Posted by Shay Villere | | Edit Post
With many schools, universities and corporations jumping into the field of online education, maintaining its authenticity has become imperative. It has become extremely important to stay one step ahead of today's tech savvy students. Various tools such as monitoring of keystrokes and webcams are being used to prevent misuse of the system. 
 
While you attempt your exam online, you are not alone, and someone will be monitoring you online. The frequency with which your eyes move away from your screen will be observed. Your typing pattern and any other sounds around you, are all being carefully observed. So if you thought you could you could Google your way to excellent grades, think again!!

With these measures in place the validity of online certifications are definitely enhanced. Online education in comparison to face to face education has always been much more critically analyzed. Though online education has been around quite a while, the focus on cheating has been recent. This has been mainly due to the rise in the number of institutes offering online courses.

The general conception is that during online exams people feel that no one is watching them. This gives a false sense of security and puts temptation in the way. Though recent studies and surveys have shown that there is not much of a difference in cheating happening between students online and those in the real classrooms.

With the recent introductions of various technologies to combat cheating the credibility of online education is greatly enhanced. Besides webcam and keyboard monitoring plenty of other high-tech methods are being adopted. Checking of students biographical information, remote locking of the computer browser during the exam are some on the checks in place.

In summary in order to make online education credible everyone needs to join hands and give it a chance. People will always find ways to beat the system, but what institutes are striving for is to minimize the scope of cheating. This will give genuine students a better chance!
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Online Education In High School

6:50 PM | Posted by Shay Villere | | Edit Post
Over time things evolve thanks to new ideas. This is what make America great. Especially in education. Think about all of the great ideas that have come from the United States since we became a country in 1776.

News.Yahoo had an article that addresses this very point in regard to online education. You probably immediately think of getting a college degree when you think of online education.

What if we changed the way we approach educating high school students? Chris Reiner wrote an article posted on the Yahoo Network titled "Make Online Education a Bigger Part of the School Day" It is about his idea to tackle education reform.

The basis of the article starts with a local school district giving lap tops to every high school student to use as they want including doing their home work and personal use. They get the notebook at the beginning of the year and check it back in at the end of the year.

Based on this Chris is wondering why do students need to go to class 5 days a week. They have an internet ready laptop so how about using it for classroom time as well. What would that save?

According to the Department of Education, $65 billion in federal taxes were spent last year on capital expenses for education, and a little more than $20 billion to transport students to and from school. This does not include state and local expenses.

Teachers would still come to school, but they would have an office to work out of some of the time. Classroom instruction could be cut form 5 days a week to 2 days a week.

Students could contact the teacher during working hours with questions. This could be done online as well. Schools would not need as much space and K-12 could be held in the same building.

Chris estimates the Federal Government could ave over $40 Billion a year alone. The real question is whether the public would go for it. I have serious doubts about that. Teachers who love the personal interaction with students probably would oppose it as well.
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