Originally posted by Blackacre.:
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Originally posted by DeepFat:
The lecture/question-and-answer system might be old fashioned, but it works well, and there is no better preparation for an exam like it.
DF
Deep!
You’re gonna give me nightmares from the flashbacks!
Tell you what...I'll see your "lecture/question-and-answer" system and raise you one law school "Socratic method."
Most days it's like bad "Paper Chase" re-runs from the 70's. Oh, and there is one final exam. No feedback, no quiz grade, no weekly reports to turn in. Just one final grade that is scaled to a 2.5 mean (so even if everyone does "B" work (hypothetically anyway) somebody is still going home since below a 2.0 gets you thrown out). It's tough, but that's all part of it. I mean would you want to entrust your company, your family's welfare, and even your liberty to someone who just clicked "print" after entering a credit card number? I don't think so.
I was thinking back...
My BS in Business took 4 years of my life (128 hours total...for the uninitiated, each class is usually 3 hours credit. You do 15-18 hours a semester or 5 (or 6) classes each semester).
My Grad School work at Alabama took another couple of years (almost 50 hours).
Law school (Doctor of Jurisprudence) has taken another 90 credit hours and several years of my life.
Please do not misunderstand me. The University of Alabama has a distance MBA program that is second to none. These are valid in my book. I think we all know that's not what we are talking about here.
Do I get indignant about someone attempting to pass off an "online" degree with in the marketplace and compare it to my real ones when they haven't done the work? I think anyone here who has suffered through a real university education can answer that question.
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