Dennis Ruhl Wrote:JohnDoe Wrote:I begin to see that now. It is really interesting - for a foreigner - to see what is really going on in the U.S. related to distance education. This is certainly big business, and it is a shame to see how low some people will sink to protect their own interests. And I thought I grasped the essence of distance education with the NA / RA differentiation.This is more like an "education war", and I am beginning to sort out my friends and enemies
Any differentiation between NA and RA is merely in the heads of those protecting the overpriced RA bureaucracies. The people who post there think they are part of the system when in reality they are victims of the system. While all of the best schools are RA, so are most of the worst schools. It is a fallacy to deny that most DETC schools wouldn't fit comfortably within the range of quality of RA schools. I didn't realize that there were enemies until I started having independant opinions.
Yes - I really swallowed that "NA is inferior" crap when I began my distance studies. I am beginning to get more pieces of the whole picture now.
In fact, I believe that the primary factor that made me investigate further was the "We are gods" attitude at degreediscussion.com. That really sucks.