Curious

Discussion in 'General Distance Learning Discussions' started by tcnixon, Apr 26, 2003.

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  1. tcnixon

    tcnixon Active Member

    After coming across the University of West Alabama/Columbia Southern University program, I began to wonder if there are other such programs out there. That is to say, programs where one school provides the distance learning facilities for another school.

    In this particular case, I'm sure that it had to do with CSU already owning the online facilities and UWA being a relatively small school.

    So, anything else out there like that?



    Tom Nixon
     
  2. obecve

    obecve New Member

    I think that Oklahoma State provides the techincal facilities for the University of Arkansas at Little Rock's master's degree in rehabilitation counseling.

    Also JAckson State and Mississippi State do distance learning programs together in rehabilitation. They share classrooms and facilities. Two people sitting side by side in the same classroom, with the same materials and work, can actually be enrolled at diferent universities for that class.
     
  3. MarkIsrael@aol.com

    [email protected] New Member

    Harvard/MIT

    The course "Genomics and Computational Biology", taught by Prof. George M. Church of Harvard Medical School, may set some kind of record. It is simultaneously a regular Harvard course, a Harvard Extension course, and an MIT course; it can be taken for undergraduate credit, graduate credit, or noncredit; it can be taken in person or over the Internet; and it has sections to accommodate biologists trying to learn Computer Science and computer scientists trying to learn Biology. I took it and passed it in Fall 2001, but it covers so much information that I also found it worth my while to attend some of the lectures in Fall 2002.

    http://www.extension.harvard.edu/2002-03/courses/biol.jsp#e-101
     
  4. oxpecker

    oxpecker New Member

    There has been some discussion about the fact that the online programs of the University of Liverpool are actually provided by KIT eLearning. See http://www.kitcampus.com/home/

    U. Phoenix arose from non-traditional programs that John Sperling developed and implemented for other (traditional) universities.
     
  5. Chip

    Chip Administrator

    And, of course, there was Sheila Danzig's fraudulent MIGS enterprise which was supposedly providing educational services in the US, while the degrees were supposedly to come from the GAAP CEU in Mexico... but I think the tone of the thread was about *legitimate* programs doing this.
     
  6. BillDayson

    BillDayson New Member

    This kind of thing is more common with B&M education, I think. There are many examples of one school teaching classroom courses leading to the award of another school's degrees. Several CA-approved schools do this and it's a normal practice in the British system.

    During the dot.com boom a number of universities (for some reason it usually seemed to be the more prestigious ones) contracted with or spun off private profit-making companies to operate DL programs for them, or at least to build and manage the infrastructure. These initiatives generated lots of attention (and probably ate up lots of money) but don't seem to have resulted in very many real programs being offered to real students.
     
  7. Mike Albrecht

    Mike Albrecht New Member

  8. Denver

    Denver Member

    If you really want to make it complicated, there are numerous joint US/EU programs where the credits of one school are counted toward the degree of another. My school, ESC Grenoble, has joint MBA programs with quite a few U.S. schools.
     

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