Alumni Relations in the Age of Online Education (Part Two)
Think about it. Pretend you are a college student, registered at any given institution, taking most of your courses online with the blessing of the school. Soon, you begin to hear that there are some really interesting classes offered by other institutions that will give credit toward your degree. Then you learn that there are a lot of these courses that you can take for much less money than the tuition your home campus is charging. Then you realize that you can take all of your courses online, from a variety of schools, for a lot less than signing up to attend a traditional campus based institution, even if it offers online courses and accepts others. Granted, the ultimate degree won’t be as recognizable, or as prestigious as the traditional system we have known in this country, but then again, perhaps that’s not what counts anymore.