Distance Learning College Fairs

Does anyone know of any college fairs dedicated to distance learning?

 

During the years I was involved with marketing the Heriot-Watt distance MBA (1991-98), we tried to find such things, without success. There were small distance/on-line sections at a few of the fairs, such as the Daily Telegraph's in London, and others from Oman to Berlin to Jakarta, but we discovered, on exhibiting at a few, that people don't go to those expecting to find DL

Wait, I believe Mr. Mirza, the Columbia Pacific alumnus in Pakistan, who publishes a guide to distance schools, in which the good, the bad, and the fake are all mixed in together, puts on several such fairs in the Middle East and the sub continent.

 

Distance Learning Forum (www.dlforum.com)is sponsoring a series of distance learning college fairs this spring, in NY, Boston, San Francisco and Chicago.

 

Education fairs are *BIG* business in Asia. I was in Indonesia a couple of months ago attending one such event. Unfortunately, ours was for Australian universities/ colleges only - no other countries permitted. However, I have seen photographs of education fairs with stalls and stalls of the fake, weird and wonderful flogging their wares. Very, very sad.

Cheers,

George

 

The closest thing I ever to an education fair was when Tandem Computers (my old Employer) held some brown bag lunches to try and get some of us to get off our collective tucheses (or is it tuchi) and get edumacated.

The result was meeting individually with an education consultant (at company expense) to learn the various options available (and John's books were prominent in both sessions). In my case, we looked at the available options and I started in a DL option, then later went to a ground based option (I originally traveled 75-80% of the time so DL was the way to go!).

Later, we did something similar at (then) @Home Network. I came to the meeting as "someone who did it and lived." It was the same company as the one Tandem used, however, the owner (who did sell the company) by then had several employees, and it was her employee that gave the talk. Again, John's books were prominant, and I was able to discuss the books' merits as at the time I was looking for a doctoral program.

While you may not find a public "fair", it may be possible to hold something like that with your employer or any other group affiliation.