On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Bryon Daly wrote:
> My impressions:
> - they're very focused on non-traditional students. It seems they can
> give course credit for life experience and work experience. That might
> be more for bachelor's-level degrees than MBA's, but I'm not sure.
> - I kinda got the impression that most of the coursework was focused on
> "real-world" tasks and performance. Ie: you do case studies, reports,
> analyses, presentations, business plans, etc, rather than take tests.
> That's a selling point of theirs: that their students graduate with
> practical and useful knowledge they can put to immediate use. Also, the
> instructors are all required to have "real-world" experience, they
> aren't the academic-types.
> - The coursework also seemed very team-oriented: you do most of this
> work as part of a team of 4students, rather than by yourself. I don't
> know how that would work for on-line students, so that may be different,
> there
> - Overall, I got the impression that while a earning degree from them
> wouldn't be terribly challenging, they are legitimate, respectable
> degree programs. That's all just my impression, though. You might get
> some feel by observing that graduate from there that's in your
> department. Does he know his stuff?
I have a friend who's taking at least one course with them right now. If
there are specific questions she might be able to answer, such as one
about the team-oriented nature of assignments, I could ask her. I'd just
like someone else to come up with the exact wording on the query. :)
Julia
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