Bill Gates On Online Ed
In San Francisco recently Bill Gates was speaking at a conference when an audience member asked for his views on education, comparing seated classes to online learning. He takes a very interesting approach to not only comparing the class styles for college education, but also looking into Kindergarten through high school online schooling. When you watch the video it is obvious how intelligent the man is, but you can also see how passionate he is too. After watching, let us know your thoughts on kids getting their educations through strictly online formats, hybrid settings, or strictly seated classes.
Online Education Makes Sense
For so many years I was struggling with trying to not only complete my college degree, but also raising my little boy, working part time, and helping my husband around the house. Planning a schedule where you have to attend class, go to work, and have a child at home is not something that is very easy to do. Trust me. After trying to manage my hectic life like this for a couple of years, one of my dearest friends told me that she was going back to school. I was so curious as to how she planned on doing that when she had more on her plate than I did. She worked full-time, had two little ones, and her husband was off in Iraq at the time serving our country. That’s when I found out about online education or distance education. She was going to be able to keep up with all of her life’s demands and go to school too.
Howard University Executive MBA
Howard University has just announced its inaugural online degree program. The Executive MBA program online is designed to prepare students for business leadership roles in the rapidly expanding global marketplace. The new, prestigious program is AACSB accredited, ranked very near the top of a list of U.S. Business Schools evaluated by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and was ranked in the top spot for minority MBA Students by the Princeton Review.
The 18 month program is available via a flexible, online format. This makes it possible for the working professional to earn a valuable degree from a world-class faculty who have prepared business executives to take on leadership roles in the world’s corporate theater since 1867. As a brick and mortar institute of higher learning, this historically black college is a member school of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund. The school is partially funded by the US Government, which donates approximately $235 million on a yearly basis. From its founding, Howard University has remained nonsectarian, open to people of both genders and all races. At its campus locations in Washington, DC, the Graduate schools associated with Howard include pharmacy, law, medicine, dentistry and divinity.
iTunes U
On May 30, 2007, iTunes U was announced by Apple Inc in Cupertino, California. The new service, available through iTunes, would manage, and distribute access to educational media content and files for students of a college or university. Non-students and ordinary Internet users could also access the information, contributing to the “open university” project.
Schools and other institutions receive their own iTunes U sites nested inside of Apple’s iTunes Store infrastructure. There is no cost incurred for anyone who is either uploading or downloading material. Course lectures, foreign language lessons, science lab demonstrations, campus tours, and sports event highlights are all provided by qualifying “two- and four-year accredited, degree-granting, public or private colleges and universities in the United States, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and United Kingdom.” Apple is strict about the regulation of college and university involvement in iTunes U.
