Online MBA graduate from Benedictine University

Meet Joann Lewis-Massey, a Legal Supervisor and a 2008 online Graduate from Benedictine University’s MBA program.

This video commentary filmed during her graduation ceremony in August ’08, attempts to portray some of the positive benefits Lewis-Massey ascribes to her experience with the online program from Benedictine.

Here below I’ve summarized her response to the four questions posed to her in the video, and contrasted whether or not the same benefits could be attained as well from a bricks & mortar school as from an online school. Read more »

I decided it would be fun to review some online videos about various aspects of distance learning.

I’m a fan of documentary films, and so to narrow my initial selection for the first of three video reviews in this three part series, I simply typed in the words “distance learning” + documentary to see what I would pull up on YouTube.

The first video I chose wound up being a total parody, though it took me a good few minutes of watching before I even realized it.  The next video I landed on was the one you will see below. Read more »

Is college tuition becoming too costly?

Does it cost more to obtain an online degree than it does to obtain a degree from a traditional ‘bricks and mortar’ post-secondary educational institution?

I’ve begun to do some research around the subject, in order to educate myself on which is actually more costly.  My strong suspicion has been that online colleges would offer lower tuition rates than offline schools.   However, as I am finding out this may not necessarily be the case. Read more »