The Case for Online Learning for Single Moms… and Dads
Posted on September 25, 2009 by Jennifer Brady
The Examiner is an online news, opinion, and entertainment site where regular people with an interest or expertise in some area often post their thoughts. Jackie O’Malley is one of them and recently she posted a viewpoint entitled, “Single moms are choosing online education as a flexible way to earn their degree.” It is a good piece I would recommend to all single mothers, but to single Dads and married people and anyone else with a work/life schedule that always seems to include more things to do than there is time to do them. But there’s one other thing about Ms. O’Malley’s article I need to clarify with specific reference to UMassOnline. In a paragraph in which she advises would-be online students to check out any school’s validity and credibility before enrolling, she writes:
Online schools usually have a .edu address just as traditional colleges, so check their URL as well.
That’s an absolutely true statement. But visitors here and to the UMassOnline website might be either confused or alarmed that UMassOnline’s home page has a .net url and this site has a .com url. There is a very, very good reason for this. UMassOnline, per se, does not grant the degree credentials that are earned through the online courses created and taught by University of Massachusetts faculty across all five campuses. The respective campuses are the degree-granting authorities. As such, the campuses, of course, have .edu urls. As the consortium representing the campuses – which means we provide marketing and technology and program development support among other things – we do not have a .edu url. Still, every program and course offered through UMassOnline from each of the campuses – all of which are accredited – are almost always the same professors that teach these courses in the classroom and all the online faculty are fully vetted by the UMass campuses of which they are a part. The courses carry the same credit level online as they do in the classroom.
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