The stigma associated with taking classes over the Internet can be a nagging concern for those about to invest serious time and money to advance their careers.

Such fears may be fueled by recently released federal data that suggests graduates of for-profit schools aren’t finding as much success in the job market. These schools, which are known for their online career education programs, had lower repayment rates for student loans, according to data released last month.

The Department of Education plans to enforce new regulations starting in July 2012 that will restrict federal aid for career education programs, of less than two years, with too many graduates who can’t repay student loans or carry unmanageable debt loads.

In the meantime, here are some points to remember about online degrees.

•The Virtual Elephant in the Room

Before you even start looking into online programs, there’s the matter of the stigma associated with them. As unfair as it may seem, those fears aren’t entirely without base.

Only about half of respondents to a Society for Human Resource Management survey this summer said online degrees are just as credible as traditional degrees. The human resource professionals also said online credentials were less acceptable for higher-level positions; just 15% said online degrees were acceptable for an executive position.

That said, keep in mind that this is a highly subjective area and that your schooling is just one factor that employers look at. The field of work you’re entering and a company’s culture will also influence how online degrees are regarded, notes Lynn Berger, a career counselor in New York City.

“It may be that the person interviewing you got their degree online too,” Berger said.

The matter may not be as big a concern if your online degree is from a traditional college. The same is true if you earned your degree from a school that isn’t widely known as a provider of online education. That’s not to say you should hide that you earned your degree online, but you don’t have to make it the dominant description of your education.

•The Cost is Anything But Virtual

A common assumption is that online schooling will be cheap. That assumption is wrong.

At the University of Phoenix, one of the most well-known for-profit schools, each credit for a master’s in business administration costs $685. So earning the 36 credits required for the degree would cost a total of $24,660, not including application and other fees.

But keep in mind that for-profit schools don’t have a monopoly on Internet courses. The majority of community colleges and four-year public schools now offer at least some online courses as well, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics.

“Many for-profit schools try to create the impression that they’re the only schools offering courses online or at convenient times,” said Pauline Abernathy of The Project on Student Debt.

And the average tuition and fees at community colleges last year was $2,500. Traditional colleges typically charge the same amount whether students attend classes online or in person.

With loan repayment rates at for-profit schools a hot topic right now, it should be noted that the majority of students at community colleges do not have student loans upon graduation. Of those that do, the average debt is $10,000. By comparison, nearly all graduates of for-profit schools have student loans and the average debt is $17,000, according to The Project on Student Debt.

•Picking a For-Profit Program

A few points to keep in mind if you’re considering a for-profit school. To start, check that the school is accredited at www.ope.ed.gov/accreditation. You can also check the site of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation at www.chea.org.

Even if a school is accredited, be wary of aggressive sales tactics or reluctance to disclose information about pricing. Recent undercover tests by the Government Accountability Office found some for-profit schools used deceptive recruiting tactics and encouraged applicants to falsify financial aid forms.

For-profit schools also tend to do a lot of handholding through the application process to make it easy for students to enroll. Don’t let this prevent you from shopping around for other options, rather than signing up for the first school you see advertised on TV.

To gauge how well graduates of a particular for-profit school are doing, check the Education Department’s list of student repayment rates. Click on the link for “Cumulative Four-Year Repayment Rate by Institution.” Keep in mind that rates may differ for particular programs within the school.

Finally, talk to mentors or professionals you know in the field to get their thoughts on your plans to pursue an online degree. They may have some recommendations on a well-respected program or one that others have had a good experience with.

Can an online degree help advance your career?

This compelling projection by the Institute for Higher Education Policy is one of the primary reasons why it is working with the Lumina Foundation for Education to roll out the three-year, $1.3 million Project Win-Win. This initiative will financially support 35 community colleges and four-year institutions in six states —Louisiana, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin — so they can track down and retroactively award qualified students associate degrees who, for whatever reason, never received one. It also will help these institutions identify students who have recently dropped out who are “academically short” of an associate degree by nine credits or fewer and re-enroll them to finish a degree.

“Project Win-Win has the potential to make a considerable down payment on increased degree completion goals set by state governors and the Obama Administration,” said Michelle Asha Cooper, IHEP president, in a statement.

Last year, nine of the project’s institutions ran a pilot of this program during a seven-month period; they awarded nearly 600 associate degrees and identified almost 1,600 students who were just shy of earning one. The pilot, however, revealed a number of difficulties that institutions face when attempting to retroactively award degrees.

“It’s not as easy as it sounds,” said Stephanie Tarver, dean of enrollment management at McNeese State University, which awards associate degrees as well and was part of the pilot program. “We were kind of bumbling around in the dark a bit. When you pull data, it doesn’t always match up like you thought it would. You have to have a lot of staff to dedicate to a project like this to keep it going.”

Then, even when candidates for degrees and those just shy of them were identified, reaching them proved just as challenging.

“At that point, we don’t have as much control as we do in the other areas because these students have been out for a while,” Tarver said. “We didn’t know if the contact information we had for them was accurate. We didn’t know how to get accurate information without spending lots of money to find it. Also, when we finally did make contact, some of the students were leery of us. ‘You’re calling me out of the blue and saying I’m qualified for a degree and want to offer it to me? What’s the catch?’ ”

Eventually, though, McNeese awarded about 15 associate degrees, out of approximately 150 former students who met degree requirements. Officials also tracked down about 300 students who were just short of graduation and are in the process of helping those who wish to complete find a way to do so.

“A lot of the students who dropped out of school didn’t realize just how close they were to finishing,” Tarver said. “The success stories we’ve had are truly heartwarming, especially for those who didn’t realize they were qualified for a degree. We made an immediate impact on their lives. Rarely have I felt we’ve impacted students as we did through this project.”

Though many of the institutions participating in the project had never before made efforts to retroactively award degrees, a few of them have been doing it for a while and have found ways to integrate this into regular degree audits for current students.

Anna Flack, registrar at Suffolk County Community College, in New York, noted that her institution has made it a point to search for these “lost graduates” at least once every year for the past decade.

“We did this on a small scale,” Flack said. “It was really part of office procedure. {hellip} We made it part of the daily responsibilities of the degree audit staff.”

With students who are just a few credits short of earning an associate degree, Flack said, the college has adopted a no-pressure approach in approaching them.

“We’ve just sent letters to students, saying that can finish if they’d like to,” Flack said. ” ‘Here are the different ways you can reach that degree.’ There’s no convincing, no strong-arming, no sales pitch. ‘We just see this, and we’d like you to know about it.’ ”

Those pushing the project at the national level argue that, despite some of the challenges in the degree audit process, this is a relatively easy way to boost graduation rates around the country.

“This is an issue that hasn’t been raised,” said Cliff Adelman, senior associate at IHEP. “We’re saying to these institutions, ‘Hey, guys, you haven’t paid attention to people based on your criteria who’ve crossed the degree threshold. You’ve been asleep at the wheel.’ There’s all this talk about awarding these degrees, but they’re just making a lot of noise. This is low-hanging fruit.”

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By Katherine Mangu-Ward
Sunday, March 28, 2010; B01

Deep inside of America’s collective consciousness, there is usually a tiny red schoolhouse. Within, obedient youngsters sit in rows, eagerly absorbing lessons being a type, wise teacher writes around the blackboard. Shiny apples are provided as tokens of respect and gratitude.

The reality of American instruction is generally pretty diverse. Beige classrooms are filled with note-passers and texters, who casually ignore instructors struggling to produce it for the end in the 50-minute period. Smart little ones are bored, and slower young children are left behind. Anxiety about standardized tests is higher, and scores are consistently low. National surveys come across that father and mother despair in excess of the top quality of instruction inside United States — and they are perfect to, as test outcomes confirm once again and once again.

But just as most Americans disapprove of congressional shenanigans though harboring some affection for their very own representative, father and mother usually say that their child’s teacher is very excellent. Most men and women have mixed feelings about their very own college times, but our national romance with instructors is deep and long-standing. Which can be why the concept of children staring at computers as opposed to instructors makes dad and mom and politicians highly nervous.

Even so, it is time to consider on the internet instruction seriously — since we’ve tried anything else. Instruction Secretary Arne Duncan debuted his Blueprint for Reform this month to mixed reviews, joining no less than 30 years’ worth of federal government officials who’ve promised that this time, honest, they are going to fix education and learning. Even the reforms promoted from the much-ballyhooed federal Race towards the Leading funds, that are supposed to encourage innovative educational practices, offer you mostly marginal modifications towards the status quo. In an early March speech on technologies in education and learning, Duncan touted $500 million in new federal spending above 10 a long time to produce post-secondary on the web lessons — an region of on the net education and learning undoubtedly thriving with out federal assistance — thus arriving in the dance 15 a long time late and an awful lot additional than a dollar short.

Because the World wide web hit the huge time from the mid-1990s, Amazon and eBay have changed the way in which we shop, Google has revolutionized the way in which we locate data, Facebook has superseded other approaches to hold track of pals and iTunes has altered how we consume music. But little ones continue to be stuck in analog educational institutions. Component in the cause on the net education and learning hasn’t taken off is that effective forces just like lecturers unions — which choose to hold individuals in standard classrooms under the supervision of their members — are aligned against it.

So kids carry on to understand from blackboards and books — the sort manufactured of dead trees! no hyperlinks! — as opposed to acquiring lessons the way in which they consume practically all other info: on the net. Putting reading materials and lecture notes about the World wide web, like several lecturers do nowadays, is just the 1st step; it is like when, inside the early times of films, filmmakers pointed a camera at a stage play. Children are nevertheless stuck watching those old-style films, when they might be enjoying the finding out equivalent of “Avatar” in 3-D. Thousands of ninth-grade English lecturers are cobbling jointly yet an additional lecture for the Globe Theatre in Shakespeare’s day, when YouTube is overflowing with accessible, multimedia presentations from authorities on Elizabethan theater construction, not to mention a extremely nice illustrated series for the Kennedy Center’s ArtsEdge web site.

From the 2010 annual letter from his foundation — the largest inside the United States, which has a $33 billion endowment — Bill Gates listed on the web training as certainly one of his major priorities and rattled his pocket alter from the direction of reform. He wrote: “Online studying could be a lot more than lectures. Yet another element entails presenting data in an interactive form, which might be helpful to discover what a student understands and does not know.”

Proper now, other than the venerable pop quiz, instructors have really number of tools to gauge just how numerous the youngsters are grasping a idea in true time and reshape the curriculum to meet their requires.

How do we know on-line training will do the job? Nicely, for one particular point, it undoubtedly does. Full-time digital charter educational institutions are operating in dozens of states. The Florida Digital Institution, which provides for-credit on the web courses to any kid enrolled within the point out program, has 100,000 college students. Instructors are offered by mobile phone or e-mail from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. seven times a week. The point out cuts a funding examine towards college only when the youngsters demonstrate that they’ve mastered the materials, whether or not it takes them two months or two a long time. The plan is certainly one of the largest inside the country. Children who enroll in Superior Placement lessons — 39 % of whom are minority college students — score an regular of three.05 out of 5, in comparison using a express normal of 2.49 for public classes pupils.

In his book on on-line knowledge, “Disrupting Class,” Harvard Company Institution professor Clayton Christensen estimates that half of all substantial classes programs inside United States is going to be consumed in excess of the World wide web by 2019. But we possess a prolonged method to go to achieve 50 %. Seventeen % of higher classes individuals nationwide took an on-line course for institution previous 12 months; a different 12 % took a class for self-study. A lot of of these college students, in addition to younger children getting on the internet courses, may well be regarded homeschooled, nevertheless that really notion is changing as they sign up with digital universities connected to think systems.

Couple of individuals have a very clear picture of what on the net instruction actually looks like, which can be 1 explanation so a lot of persons are reluctant to think about what it has to provide you with. Studying on the web won’t turn America into a nation of home-schooled nerds, sitting in their basements, keyboards clacking. And it does not mean handing your little ones in excess of to Rosie the Robot from “The Jetsons” with the day.

Moving lesson planning and delivery on the internet can produce college students with a lot more supervision, not much less, says Michael Horn, one among the co-authors of “Disrupting Class.” It would free of charge instructors, Horn says, “to do hand-holding and mentoring, anything which can be fairly a great deal impossible inside the existing model.” Following all, in which is it written that the babysitter, disciplinarian, lecturer and evaluator ought to all be precisely the same particular person? Or even that they all ought to be in exactly the same making?

Some on the net understanding models get rid of human interaction, but the vast majority don’t. Rather, they connect college students and lecturers via polls, video, chat, text and excellent old-fashioned cellular phone calls. The Digital Virginia software focuses on providing State-of-the-art Placement lessons to every single student inside talk about, bringing college-level programs to rural districts and inner-city Richmond, in which high-level instruction is complicated to have. Rocketship Knowledge, in San Jose, Calif., brings at-risk elementary individuals with each other in the safe, low-cost, modular space in addition to a little staff and hands their studies around to on the net curriculum for portion of each and every day.

On-line education and learning has previously turn out to be a boon for young children with particular requires, the college students least served from the classic process. Instruction entrepreneur Tom Vander Ark launched World-wide-web Academy, the very first on the internet K-12 establishment, in 1995 in portion to serve little ones with unorthodox training specifications, from considerable athletes to young children with well being issues or finding out disabilities.

Among one of the most productive areas of on the web knowledge so far is helping youngsters who’ve fallen off the educational grid. Corporations just like AdvancePath Academics scoop up pupils classified as unrecoverable by conventional universities and assist them complete their training. Some dropout-recovery plans is usually discovered in purchasing malls and gyms.

On the net programs that let little ones to master materials on their personal schedule produce “a important chance for college students who had been behind,” says Jim Shelton, assistant deputy secretary for innovation and improvement on the U.S. Department of Training. “Because if you ever need exactly the same quantity of time in a very classic classroom, how can anybody ever catch up?”

On-line training offers the youngsters in dysfunctional urban districts the probability to enroll in high-quality courses or language instruction with out an high-priced move to a suburban district or even a private institution. Cities advantage, as well, as families uncomfortable using the excellent of urban public universities can keep on to live close to their downtown offices though enrolling their youngsters in Web-based applications, decreasing white flight and suburban sprawl.

Pupils and father and mother are not the one ones dissatisfied with the way in which American knowledge performs correct now. Instructors are unhappy, as well. They say they will not have time for that type of individual interaction which could make the greatest distinction to get a kid. According to Julie Young, the president and chief executive in the Florida Digital Institution, “most lecturers and most pupils who are getting lessons on the internet say that they’ve much more interaction with their instructors and individuals than they do in the common setting.”

Even though several continue being skeptical, on-line educators say father and mother are far more open on the concept than they utilized to be. Baltimore-based Connections Academy has an enrollment of 20,000 college students in 14 states, supplying a entire educational package primarily outside a physical university. Chief executive Barbara Dreyer says that “questions like ‘does this even perform?’ have died down.”

But although the families of individuals enrolled in on the web plans rave about them, cultural resistance has been slow to fade. And winning hearts and minds isn’t the only real hurdle to widespread adoption: Digital training remains essentially illegal in a lot of states, which includes New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Seat-time demands — which mandate that students’ butts be in classroom chairs, typically inside the sightline of the qualified teacher, for any particular number of hours — are a key barrier.

Aged budgetary mechanisms are not perfectly suited towards on-line globe, either. In several states, if common colleges shed college students they drop express cash. In Wisconsin, legislators are attempting to stop the World-wide-web at county lines. Point out Sen. John Lehman, who heads his chamber’s education and learning committee, secured a cap on out-of-county digital college enrollment previous 12 months. His initial objections had been budgetary: “Local districts have ongoing bricks-and-mortar charges,” he told me. But then he went on to repeat substantive objections shared by numerous opponents of on-line instruction, accusing the classes firms of “profiteering off of young children,” and worrying about high quality control along with the mechanics of on the internet instruction for young grade-schoolers. He also traced the opposition back to instructors unions. “I feel they are fearful of digital training in Wisconsin,” he mentioned. “They do not like to determine the income leave bricks-and-mortar colleges.”

Unions are perfect that digital colleges are competition. Oregon lecturers unions, alarmed about declining enrollment in conventional universities, produced fighting a Connections Academy charter institution their prime legislative priority final 12 months, at some point forcing the legislature to cap enrollment in on the net colleges and mandate encounter time with instructors, killing prospects for growth at an example of the top-rated educational institutions from the express.

A common way on the net training organizations can respond to concerns about high quality and age-appropriateness is if they’re given the probability to experiment and win more than pupils and mom and dad. Federal government policies should be tweaked, and firms have to have investment to grow. But for on-line education and learning to definitely consider off, we should let the chalkboard inside the tiny red schoolhouse go, and study to adore the glow of your child’s encounter lit by a laptop screen.

kmw@reason.com

Katherine Mangu-Ward is really a senior editor at Purpose magazine.

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