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Many people you know maybe working on their online computer degrees and you don’t even know it. How would you like to be able to go to school to get an online degree from the privacy of your own home on your own schedule. Would you like to have a job as a software developer, web designer, or many other different computer programmer jobs.
Now is the time to accomplish that goal. There are hundreds of online computer degrees available online that are fully accredited. They are the fastest growing segment of secondary education. That means that there are many opportunities available to meet your specific career goals.
Life is just too short not to enjoy going to work every day. If you dread getting up and heading to the office, take a minute and check out the different options available to you. You know that the Internet is big, and that technology is the way ahead. But did you realize how many different options and jobs there are available to you when you have an online computer science degree.
Some of the advantages of earning an online degree include being able to attend classes day or night depending upon your schedule. You can earn the exact same degree as on-campus students, but pay less for it. Many online degrees are about half the cost of the same degree that is earned on campus. You can attend school from anywhere that you have a computer and an Internet connection.
One of the best things about getting online computer degrees is that it offers you flexibility. As you work through your classes on your schedule, you will have the time to devote when and where you need to. With wireless Internet available almost everywhere, you aren’t tied to a classroom or even to your home. You could work on your class work at a coffee shop, on the bus, on your lunch break, even in the car when someone else is driving.
Online computer degrees also offer you flexibility in the workplace as well. Once you have obtained enough knowledge and skill to compete for programmer jobs you could begin to freelance. The best part of freelancing in the computer world is that you set your work hours.
Working part time computer jobs is possible for many people earning their online computer degrees. If you are wondering if the field is a good fit, once you find out how dynamic and lucrative the field can be? ?usually helps to motivate you into finishing your degree.?
Many part-time computer computer programmer jobs will pay considerably more than many jobs where you have to work a full-time 9 to 5 schedule. If you enjoy computers or the Internet, imagine working at something you enjoy part time and making more money than you do at your current job.
Online computer degrees make it possible for you to make a career change with only a little risk. They offer the flexibility to complete your coursework when and where you want, and you can even start a new programmer jobs to make sure a new career change is the right decision for you.
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One must remember that Hun Sen is highly uneducated. His only form of education was through the village pagoda when he was younger and even that was disrupted when he took up arms to join the Khmer Rouge.
Many of those "honorary" PhDs that he receives are mainly from obscure institutions from around the world. These meaningless "honorary" PhDs are only given out so that these obscure institutions can get funding from their respective countries. For the most part, the PhDs are either from unaccredited online-based colleges that no one has ever heard of. Or they are from the lesser known institutions from communist nations in which they are required to give out an allotment of honorary PhDs in order to get funding and minor recognition. A lot of times, these institutions try to give honorary PhDs out to certain statesman and political leaders but these leaders, being much more smarter than Hun Sen, knows that they are worthless pieces of paper that means nothing. Hun Sen, being stupid as he is and uneducated about these PhDs, accepts them. At the end, it only makes him look like a proud fool.
I might note that these "honorary" PhDs that Hun Sen, his wife and whoever else in the CPP receives ARE NOT in caliber and NOT THE SAME as the types of honorary PhDs that Harvard University, Tokyo University, UCLA, Oxford University or University of Texas, etc gives out annually to people that actually makes a difference and needs honoring.
To start, a lot of what you say is pretty accurate and I am not here to argue furiously with you :). . . but: To be completely fair, when I started this major 4 years ago, it was generally felt that the major print outlets would pull through this crisis just like they had every single other one. Paper cost increases, shipping cost increases, the rise of television, etc. were all overcome, oftentimes ending in even greater profitability and power for the printed media. Things weren’t exactly *rosy* 4 years ago, but they weren’t exactly funereal, either. Over the next few years, COM became something of self-reinforcing echo chamber. Industry luminaries who visited talked about how their publications were all becoming new media-savvy and getting hip to the times. Major papers turned their previously barren, under-utilized websites into multimedia playgrounds rich in content and news–hell, some even BROKE stories online and printed them later. Every teacher stressed that as bad as things seemed, the media would, in the end persevere. Not that there weren’t warning signs, mind you. A couple of major papers shuttering, increasing layoffs, dire news from the advertising front, etc. But for a lot of us, it was possible to look past the horror stories and keep listening to the media’s hype (this is something that media people do all too often, I’ve come to learn–they focus so much on themselves they forget about the larger world out there around them). Then, the subprime mortgage market imploded and I got the inkling, thanks to places like reddit, that that wasn’t going to be the end of it. Sure enough, over the next few months, the entire economy crumbled away, leaving everybody hurting. One of the major outcomes of this recession (for the meda, at least) has been companies slashing advertising budgets left and right, and when it came time to cut out outlets for their ads, most opted to axe the fastest-shrinking industry, print. Similarly, the meteoric rise of online advertising–if it didn’t exactly bust completely–stalled out, leaving most paper’s websites barely or not-profitable timesinks that couldn’t buoy the whole organization. The last few months have been a butchershop for print media, and I know you know that. Watching outlets that might have had 5-10 years left in them shutter left and right has created my deep-seated fear, man. **I never once expected to work till retirement at a quaint little newspaper.** I’ve known, longer than most, that the web isn’t just the future, it’s the Goddamned present, and has been for a lot longer than most folks in the ‘biz recognize. Thing is, the recession cut out the print industry’s ability to turn itself around. Another commenter hear mentioned that the shape of the journalistic world will change completely in a decade, and that’s true. Thing is, though, before the economic crisis, a lot more outlets would have enjoyed a relatively smooth transition to electronic formats instead of just dying halfway through. I don’t claim that every print outlet that’s gone bust in the last year would have lived if it weren’t for Wall St. shenanigans–no, a ton of them were poorly managed businesses that deserved to fail out. But plenty more could have lived and hired and employed guys like me until a working online market surfaced. Oh, and as for my choice to go to BU: I come from the Southeast US and have developed a lifelong hatred of rural America. I wanted nothing more than to move to a big, flashy, modern city, and I applied to colleges that would let me do that. All things considered, I was a pretty damned strong applicant. 4.0, 1590/1600 SAT, 33/36 ACT, volunteer work for elderly homes, Toys for Tots, and Read Across America, 4 years at a summer camp for gifted youth, and 1 year at Tennessee’s Governor’s School program. . . . . . yet in the end, most of those big city universities admitted me and proceeded to offer me absolutely shit aid. BU was the only place that put a decent (but not full) scholarship on the table outside of the Deep South. But, to be completely fair to you and your points, Middle Tennessee State University, located in southern shithole Murfreesboro, TN, was offering me enough in scholarship aid to make a $13,000 profit over 4 years of undergrad. On the other hand, there was BU, where I’d have enough scholarship money + my parents’ ancient college bonds to "only" come out $20,000 in debt. Journalism, I knew, wasn’t big money (even back then–my best hope was to end up a small-town editor and pull $30,000k/year, tops). And a $33,000 gap is no laughing matter. But in the end, my desire to get the hell out of the South lead me to where I am today. It’s a pretty shit place to be, don’t get me wrong. And if I’d chosen to major in Engineering or go to school in TN, I’d be a lot better off. But, on the other hand, I’d have had a miserable undergraduate career *and* would be looking at a future career that I hated (either some high-paying but no-fun job like being a doctor, engineer, or lawyer OR just being stuck in the same no-journalism-jobs-so-I’ll-work-in-an-office-forever rut I’m in now). As it is, at least I had an absolutely wonderful time for 4 years in Boston before having to face the fact that I will spend the next 5-10 years slaving away in a cubicle doing something utterly unrelated to my college major. So, don’t get me wrong. Part of why I’m here *is* my fault. But a lot of things *are* out of my control, and I’m pretty well unhappy about that. Earning $18,000/year as an entry-level reporter would have been rough-as-shit with $20,000 in loans leaning over my head, but it was what I wanted from life, and I was prepared for that future way ahead of time. You know, especially considering the fact that my fiancee is currently considering a career in law. Really, it’s just a matter of finding menial work until she graduates and starts paying the bills
But on a more serious note, don’t be so quick to assume that every single liberal arts theater/art/music/english major out there went into it with grand delusions about their possible future. Sometimes people are willing to risk everything for a chance at doing what they love. As it turns out, I’m *not* one of those people. I went to college for four years instead of spending that time perfecting one of my many series of unfinished science fiction and fantasy novels ;).
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(i) For what sort of courses are online lectures, in theory, a perfect substitute? The most basic ones, where any idiot can write a good, clear, comprehensive lecture, and any idiot can understand it… Ec 101, broad History and Literature surveys, Precal, etc. What sort of person’s college experience is most likely to consist entirely of large, broad introductory courses of this type? Someone who isn’t especially enthralled by the material, who has inadequate background preparation, etc. How likely is this sorty person to be able to take advantage of free, online lectures without any assistance when he gets confused or pressure to continue when he gets discouraged? Not very. (Conversely the people most likely to benefit from free online courses [as from books, as from education movies and radio programs] are the people least likely to spend most of their educations in large lecture courses.)
(ii) Colleges do not suffer from the "lump of knowledge fallacy," for obvious reasons. When my grandmother majored in math before WWII, she learned upper-level algebra and geometry, pre-calculus, and calculus. When cheap, powerful calculators made it possible to begin teaching algebra to 10 year-olds, pretty soon people could learn all that before they graduated high-school. So did colleges fire all the math instructors and close down the math major? No: math majors know much more when they graduate, nowadays.
(iii) Most students, even at mid-tier universities, cannot communicate their thoughts in writing, and have a great deal of trouble quickly grasping the ideas in a passage that they’ve read. Will online lecture courses make people better readers and writers?
(iv)I’m skeptical of the claim that lecture courses, in general, are cash cows. The problem is that in a lecture course you are typically paying a TA for every ~20 students. Assuming TAs are paid half what lecturers are paid, you need at least 60 students for a lecture course to be more "profitable" than a 20-student seminar. And as most colleges will gleefully point out, a relatively small number of courses have more than 60 students.
Lots of good discussion here but I fear a major point is being overlooked: online learning (”distance ed” is the buzzword this year) is NOT cheaper than a brick and mortar education to the people that count the most, the STUDENTS! Phoenix and the other online unis are VERY expensive compared to your local state school or community college, and, since they’re apparently making boatloads of money now, they have no incentive to change this. As long as this remains true, online colleges are not going to replace brick-and-mortars schools for even lower division classes. Oh, they’ll grow, but so are the online offerings of conventional schools (where you get charged the same tuition as if you were sitting in the classroom). I teach DE courses and real-time courses and I tell potential online students NOT to take my lab online, if they can possibly avoid it. I try to make it an equivalent experience (it’s a damn good lab ), but it’s never going to be the same as having me watch what 20 (or fewer, this time of the semester) students are doing in real-time. Anyone who has ever used Skype will know there are ways to increase student-faculty interaction in DE classes but what they sometimes forget is that that kind of interaction doesn’t come cheaply: now you’re talking about paying real salaries to your faculty rather than the 10% on the dollar (or less) part timers and adjuncts make. There will always be a place, and a growing one, for DE, and some incredibly poorly run colleges will probably fail or mutate bc of it, but it’s not going to rule the educational universe. And some very expensive colleges will probably fail also, once they drain their endowments, especially the ones that price fix tuition with “comparison colleges” (the quicker they’re gone the better).
Oh, any research uni that still has 200+ person survey courses should be ashamed of themselves (which of course includes my alma mater, whose chairperson (my ph.d adviser) seems to be proud of the fact). At my extremely poorly funded, atrociously administered, VERY popular college science lectures are limited to 45 and labs to 20.
If you have a master’s degree, you should be able to teach your subject at most community colleges. Some require that you have a course or two in teaching in the community college; in AZ it’s one three-credit thing that (last I heard) you could take online.
People are swarming into the community colleges, and so despite suffering their own budget cuts, many schools are looking for adjunct instructors. Pay’s abysmal, but it’s better than nothing.
Another possibility is substitute teaching. But you have to be a strong person to tolerate that job.
There is an easy answer to your question. No online colleges are good.
The majority of online colleges are For Profit corporations with no admissions standards. Employers do not respect their degrees, and their graduates who can find jobs make thousands a year less than those who go to real schools.
Your local public university is cheaper, more respected — and probably offers a number of classes online.
Celebrities who used distance education.
Celebrities who used distance education.
Distance education isn’t just for people who can’t get accepted anywhere else or who don’t have dreams of being successful in their field. These five celebrities have attended online schools, including the University of Phoenix and Penn State.
Hi Dot - The hard sell, I believe, arises out of desperation and focus on (needing) the money. It’s epitomized in the video - that’s all Baldwin’s character is about. The result is the depersonalization, and most people instinctively shrink or are repulsed. The buyer wants to feel in control of the situation, as you rightly say. While online shopping/browsing is fun and I love it, the human element that a good sales professional provides has helped me in the past. Personal shoppers used to be a big thing. Nordstrom, among other stores, still emphasizes this and encourages its salespeople to develop clientele. It sure makes you feel special, I know that. Sometimes rudeness or bluntness is the only thing that will deter a desperado though. It makes me want to speak to the manager every time, but I rarely do because I get tired of the “duh deer in the headlights” when I point out other techniques might be more effective. Thanks.
Hi Jessica - I saw you in action - I don’t think you know this - when I came into the store to buy shoes one time, and I was impressed. You clearly were very knowledgeable about your inventory and made great suggestions to your customer. In a rather impersonal store, like the one you worked at, that type of interaction stands out.
Yes, the science/psychology of sales is fascinating. People like Brian Tracy have made a fortune sharing their findings with folks who are eager to learn and apply/improve. I believe all marketing and business departments in colleges should require course work in this. Thanks.
Hi Davina - I often hear “I’m not a salesperson.” People are very uncomfortable with being perceived as something they view in a negative way. People are also intimidated by the process - not wanting an uncomfortable quid pro quo or other expectation to denigrate their attempts to build a relationship.
Yet, time and time again, I would see the same people naturally and confidently develop a strong relationship and convert buyers as part of their business activities. It happened when they forgot they were supposed to sell something, and their warmth and enthusiasm for their product or service translated into being helpful to the customer.
I see you as a natural, Davina. You sell yourself with every blog post. The impression your customers/readers get is someone who is authentic, warm, perceptive and wise. Who wouldn’t want to do business with you? You’re a born salesperson and you don’t even realize it! This is a very, very good thing. Thanks.
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This is a difficult question to answer, but I believe Georgetown University has a program with Diplomacy as well as Linguistics, or you can choose from a multitude of languages: Arabic, Chinese, East Asian Languages, Eastern Mediterranean Languages, Italian, Slavic Languages, Spanish and Portuguese, and many more. I hope this helps!
Like life, there are good ones and bad ones. The bad ones are… well, bad! The good ones will work your arse off! It is easier (just takes longer) to get your degree with your but in a seat in a class room. Online typically costs more, but,l you get there faster. I went back to school in June, 2005. I went to AIU-Online. They are fully accredited. I earned my BS Business Adim/Marketing in Dec. '06. Not good enough, market is saturated with those types. I went back to AIU-Online in APril, 07. I will graduate this summer with a BS in Computer Science. Hard? Darn straight! 9 credits every 5 weeks. Two research papers each week, two live lectures each week, a group project in week 3 or 4 of eachcourse. Plan on taking about 20 to 30 hours per week to do the study reading, research and writing.
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