This is my first blog for online-distance-learning.net. I promise you they won’t all be so long! It may interest you to know that I am based in the UK - in Liverpool in fact, which I hope will need no introduction (hey Beatles!). Why then, you may wonder, am I writing about US based online degrees and online marketing mbas?
If you have read any of my articles, this will give you some kind of clue. Firstly, I love marketing and secondly, I would have loved the chance to do an online marketing degree 12 years ago. So why not study for an online marketing mba or online degree now? Because in between writing columns for online-distance-learning.net, I look after my baby and 2 school-age children and guilt-trip about not giving them enough attention - and I don’t even go out to work.
I am not trying to sound like I am a martyr - or superhuman. Anyone who visits a site like this, looking for an online mba or online degree, is probably planning to fit their online degree or online mba around a day job, household chores, and family commitments in various forms. The truth is, no online degree or online mba is easy - it takes a huge amount of commitment, dedication and discipline. The beauty is, however, that if you decide to commit yourself to an online degree, you can study them almost anywhere in the world.
Which brings me back to my first point about Liverpool and why I am writing about online degrees. It may interest you to know that in April last year, The University of Liverpool launched online mba and master programs in partnership with Sylvan Learning Systems Inc, a large US higher education company. Big deal you might say, but this is in the wake of the failed British e-university venture, UKeU, which tried and failed to rival the current U.S. offering of online universities, headed up by Phoenix and DeVry universities.
I haven't got time now to go into how or why this happened - more on this and Liverpool’s online degree venture next time. In the meantime, I would welcome any of your opinions, from anywhere in the world, on the value, validity and future of online degrees.
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