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When you're getting surgery, you're typically very selective about your doctor. The only time this might not be true is if you're rushed to a hospital.... but most surgeries are planned.
When you're getting surgery, you're typically very selective about your doctor. The only time this might not be true is if you're rushed to a hospital.... but most surgeries are planned.
OK..... Again, how would you know that the education rec'd was all or in part completed via the online environment?
For any prospective HS students or people thinking of returning to college, my recommendation is unless its ivy league or free, do NOT attend any college or University. They have become nothing but huge businesses and money making machines and most will soon become irrelevant.
The new wave of the future will be free online degrees offered by universities such as stanford, MIT etc. or sites like udacity, coursera and others where you can get top notch instruction for free. I imagine in the future they will collaborate with laboratories, hospitals, companies etc. so students can get lab experience for subjects such as biology and chemistry where extensive lab work is required.
We are the early stages of the creative destruction of brick and mortar universities by new technology. So be smart, sign up for free courses and become one of the first wave of students to earn a college degree for FREE. After all, its the knowledge you gain that counts, not the physical act of attending a college.
I see the same phenomenon being applicable to elementary, middle and high schools as well.
Who will develop the curriculum? Who will tailor the information contained in the curriculum to the different learning styles? Who will establish the guidelines or grading scale that is used to determine whether or not the information has been learned? Who decides whether or not what is " learned" is what is taught? Just curious....
OK..... Again, how would you know that the education rec'd was all or in part completed via the online environment?
You live by and go to a teaching hospital. A hospital that is linked a a quality medical school isn't hiring and employing someone who isn't good at what they do. In an academic environment lesser degrees are looked down upon. I personally would not live in an area that didn't have a hospital linked to a quality medical school.
OK..... Again, how would you know that the education rec'd was all or in part completed via the online environment?
you would know because it isn't possible to:
A) Earn an MD/DO via online courses
B) Get accepted INTO medical school, you can be certain that any one with an MD/DO after their name didn't get their undergraduate degree online. It is way too competitive to get into med school, you aren't getting in with an online degree.
C) Even if you somehow COULD bypass A and B via the "online" route, you would NEVER get into a residency particularly a highly competitive surgical residency. There aren't enough residency slots in this country for the current number of brick and mortar US medical school graduates as is....
B) Get accepted INTO medical school, you can be certain that any one with an MD/DO after their name didn't get their undergraduate degree online. It is way too competitive to get into med school, you aren't getting in with an online degree.
I know someone who got his undergraduate degree from Devry University and got accepted at University of California San Diego (UCSD) Medical School. He got his undergrad degree online.
I was working at UCSD when he got accepted by the university.
Of course, he has lots of job experience and extra-curricular activities which also helped him got accepted (in addition to his grades and exams).
I know a lady who got her degree from a distance education, non-profit school and she was accepted into a DO program. Of course, degree programs for medical professions will never be offered completely online. Unfortunately for some of the archaic-minded people on here, many of your nurses have completed their BSNs and MSNs mostly online; the clinicals are done at a hospital or some other facility.
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The interactive part of going to college is the key to real learning. This is not possible going only online. Sure, an online college has message boards but that is not the same as working with fellow students on projects face to face. The movement of colleges online will further eliminate the ability of young people to interact socially and professionally face to face.
How would students develop professional social skills sitting in a big lecture hall and partying on weekends? More and more projects are going to be coordinated virtually in the future. Telecommuting, outsourcing, and globalization are going to force people to learn how to work online.
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Again, how would you know that the education rec'd was all or in part completed via the online environment?
