Royal Holloway, University of London

[Louis VI the Fat]

General question to anyone: What is your opinion of distance education / online schooling? This method, though non-traditional, has exploded in the last few years and seems to be growing still.

I think very highly of online schooling! I got my university degree from King's College of International Bussiness and Administration in Lagos, Nigeria. It wasn't a lot of hard work at all, and quite cheap!

[matteus the inbred]

I think very highly of online schooling! I got my university degree from King's College of International Bussiness and Administration in Lagos, Nigeria. It wasn't a lot of hard work at all, and quite cheap!

glad to hear it...it's the coming thing, and being taken very seriously by some very prestigious and widely recognised universities.

[Louis VI the Fat]

glad to hear it...it's the coming thing.

I was kinda making a joke. I hoped that 'Lagos, Nigeria' would be enough of a clue.
It's in reference to all that spam I receive: 'Get a MBa now from our prestigious university x from third world country y in three months, only 150 dollars american!!!


More seriously: nothing beats the smell of a real college, the daily contact with fellow students and teachers, a library filled with co-students, or going to the park after class to impress female students with newly acquired existentialist nonsense.

After you've done all that, yeah, why not keep educating yourself and take some online-education afterwards? Modern technique has opened up a wealth of possibilities. It certainly beats just reading some books by yourself. It forces discipline on yourself, you work towards an examination or paper, you receive feedback.

[Sjakihata]

I was kinda making a joke. I hoped that 'Lagos, Nigeria' would be enough of a clue.
It's in reference to all that spam I receive: 'Get a MBa now from our prestigious university x from third world country y in three months, only 150 dollars american!!!

Well, I got the clue, and I was sort of thinking that he played along with it.

[Crazed Rabbit]

General question to anyone: What is your opinion of distance education / online schooling? This method, though non-traditional, has exploded in the last few years and seems to be growing still.

Poor. My only experience with it has been with one course from one of the better state unis, and all I got for 1 grand was homework assignments and exam dates, with some internet resources, 'taught' (graded, rather) by a TA.

Crazed Rabbit

[matteus the inbred]

I was kinda making a joke. I hoped that 'Lagos, Nigeria' would be enough of a clue.
It's in reference to all that spam I receive: 'Get a MBa now from our prestigious university x from third world country y in three months, only 150 dollars american!!! .

Well, I got the clue, and I was sort of thinking that he played along with it.

sort of...I get that spam too. I work in higher education reference publishing, there are reputable universities in Nigeria y'know!