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Let's have a true and false quiz about online courses and degrees. This way you can learn for yourself how an online degree from a accredited college can do for you.
Ready?
Online Degree Question 1: TRUE OR FALSE: An online business education can't compare to face-to-face learning.
FALSE - In fact, a 93 page "Department of Education" report outlined in The New York Times found that online students outperformed classroom-based students in a modest but statistically meaningful way using comparative research gathered from 1996 to 2008.
Add in the fact that many online learning tools -- like streaming video, email, instant messaging, and teleconferencing -- develop key communication skills that every modern business executive needs, and it becomes apparent that online programs can offer some competitive advantages that a typical classroom-based education can't.
Online Degree Question 2: TRUE OR FALSE: Degrees earned online are a scam perpetuated by unaccredited diploma mills.
FALSE - There are literally hundreds of accredited schools & universities offering online MBA degree programs. Take, for example, the "Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business" (AACSB), a highly regarded accrediting agency which has given its stamp of approval to many online programs.
Yet AACSB accreditation is not the lone indicator of quality when considering an online program.
Online Degree Question 3: TRUE OR FALSE: There are benefits to a campus-based degree program that can't be matched online.
TRUE - No matter its advantages, online learning simply cannot replicate face - to - face interaction with your instructor or in-person networking in a classroom with your peers.
Yet career networking does exist in online MBA programs, albeit with a different format.
Additionally, online degree programs offer career counseling services to their students, not to mention a much more affordable price and the flexibility to keep your day job while earning your degree, no matter your zip code.
Online Degree Question 4: TRUE OR FALSE: Online degrees are a fad that will go the way of the pet rock.
FALSE - Ever since Aspen University Online offered that first accredited, online degree in 1987, online programs have become commonplace and changed the concept of business school forever.
Businesses have changed too, now viewing online degrees as acceptable credentials, both during the interview process and when considering employees for promotion.
In other words, potential employers are asking the exact same kinds of questions that you're asking. Is the online degree program properly accredited? And how reputable is the institution?
The fact is, while earning a degree online may feel like a brand new phenomenon, it's not. Although it may surprise some, the concept of distance learning actually pre-dates most brick-and-mortar educational institutions.
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