04-03-2013, 03:20 AM
(04-02-2013, 02:45 PM)ham Wrote: In at least 4/5 cases I could find no significant difference between the top-shelf, high-price, high-recognition institution and the bottom-feeding college nobody really knows.
This is absolutely true relative to traditional classroom courses. However, I think the issue relative to the psych and similar programs is how you can do the necessary practicums or internships online.
The study, cursory as it was, suggests that people with traditional degrees are of a mind that you can't, and thus conclude the traditional degree is superior. There's no psych "flight simulator" (yet) where you can crash repeatedly and not burn until you get it right.
Yet since the online programs exist and in fact proliferate, obviously somebody thinks the online degrees have substantial utility.