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Lamar University Online reached thousands with the help of Ed largest holdings
Lamar University reaches thousands of people online with the help Ed major holdings
Accessible and affordable graduate programs as Lamar largest construction educator of teachers in Texas
By Dave Sorter
Beaumont Lamar University made a remarkable recovery two devastating hurricanes.
In the three years of disaster Lamar became the largest educator of teachers in Texas. It is desirable that the State University named after the "Father of Texas Education" launched href = "http://www.higheredholdings.com/"> Ed Holdings largest online graduate degree programs who have registered to date, more than 4,000 teachers graduates in school districts across the state.
The college credits Higher Ed Holdings in Dallas with his assistant brick and mortar as far southeast Texas through a campus digital divide. In the spirit of innovation that marked the "Triangle Golden region renowned for the discovery of oil in the legendary Spindletop, Lamar entered into a society with greater holdings of Ed to help teachers move Online courses and increase the staff to achieve the objectives of the State.
In October 2007, Lamar University has launched online master's programs for its School of Education and Human Development. Higher Ed Holdings provides the platform for transmission over the Internet – including the production of the debates High quality and capabilities of chat rooms, and a comprehensive support system for students.
Hollis Lowery-Moore, dean of the Faculty of Education and Human Development said the school has lost about 500 students due to hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, before partnering with superior Lamar Ed Holdings has begun. The story is different when Hurricane Ike hit southern Texas in 2008, when the online platform has been established.
"After Ike, we had the possibility of learning distance and the students have not lost the beat, "Lowery-Moore.
Access and affordability are the main reasons online dating attracted over Lamar 4,000 students through its three control programs.
"We are unique in our situation," Lowery-Moore said. "You go to the east, is in another state (Louisiana). You go north, is Stephen F. Austin State University. West, there is Houston, which has all kinds of educational opportunities. If you go south in the Gulf Mexico.
"So I do not have a large population to reach. If we were to grow, we had to go beyond the surrounding community. Distance learning has been a response. "
Online learning is definitely a trend. More than 4 million college students nationwide took at least one online course each of the last two years, according to the 2008 survey on distance learning through teaching and Technology Council in February, 2009, article in April in the SU News & World Report.
Growth in Lamar University is reversing a worrying trend that the nation is facing the challenge of the 21st century economy planting knowledge of the future.
"Adult education working-age to university level education or training has declined since the 1990s, "according to the height of 2008 a report from the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education. "The indicators show that access to college is quite flat in the U.S., with most small improvements in some countries and declines in others. "
States which are improvements include Texas, where associations Higher Ed Holdings the Lamar and the University of Texas at Arlington enable more students with jobs and families to develop their education. Those with the instruction to earn his works Online Masters at Lamar and UTA, often get an advanced degree bag and positioned for leadership opportunities.
Donna Lewis, a veteran of 14 years in education teaching high school students for redistribution Center in Irving Independent School District near Dallas, Lamar is in line Education Administration program. After you have learned the possibilities of distance learning offers, she "decided to it was time to leave. "
Lewis said she probably would not have been able to continue the level without the online option.
"No I can leave my house often, "he said." It would be too long away from my family. "
He said that the program of flexibility – can during the visit when she can do the tasks in your schedule and join discussion groups at home – has been one reasons, decided in the program line Lamar.
And a professor at Lamar said it was an incentive for students to register.
"It's inexpensive and easy psychologically" said Dr. Dorothy Sisk, President Conn. Professional Education at Lamar and teaches courses on cognition and learning, teaching and the creative strategies in line platform.
"You can see the video when you want, you can bounce your baby on your lap while you do."
The constant change technology also promotes the growth of online registrations. The expansion of bandwidth capacity on the ability of the video camera to create the definition of more and more, and courses cat almost identical to her classroom.
For instance, the updates of their Sisk Cognition and online courses of instruction for the summer semester 2009 – Creative Teaching Strategies class will be updated for the Fall session – and is updated by video technology to improve the class.
"I found the video of BF Skinner explains theories and the use of the Skinner box," said Sisk, psychology referring to the renowned scholar of 20th century behavior. "We get this video in a meeting, the students enter a chat room and discuss. "
In fact, said Sisk start using these techniques in their on-campus classes face-to-side.
"I told my students face to face whenever we do science, but we will use the same format and online. "
In addition, students want courses using the latest technologies and top holdings Ed partnership allows teachers the opportunity to catch up on today's methods of delivery.
"It's a new way to do that," Dean Lamar Lowery-Moore. "Contributes to the development professional development for teachers. They learn new ways of teaching, learning technology, and there was a better collaboration between departments. "
The access and technology are just two sides of the equation. Equally important is the accessibility – especially in periods of economic downturn which we live.
Lewis, a student at Lamar Who teaches Irving ISD, that cost was an important factor in their decision to choose line Lamar grade, and would not have been able to pay a graduate degree elsewhere.
The syllabus of 18 months and classmates cost less than half the tuition paid by a profit online university like University of Phoenix computer.
Lewis said the fact that education becomes a quality at a state university with proven expertise and excellent in its faculty researchers, we do believe it's more for your money.
Low cost, quality programs Online degree is needed to attract future generations of students, by height.
"Tuition continues beyond family income and the price of other necessities such as medical care, food and housing, "the report said." Trends continues last quarter century would be the place of higher education beyond the reach of most Americans and significantly worsen the debt burden of those enrolled. "
Lowery-Moore said: "What I hear a lot is that" I would not be able to master in any other way. "
Universities know that providing online courses and study programs that offer the same quality of education, a flexible schedule that is conducive to life work and family, and affordability needed to be competitive future.
"For-profit schools have identified the types of students and programs students to traditional public and private non-profit paid relatively little attention – especially seniors and students 18-25 who have jobs full-time limiting their ability to attend classes during normal school hours, "says Burton Weisbrod, co-author of" Mission and Money: Understanding University "in a March 2 interview with Inside Higher Ed. The University of Phoenix enrollment up about 16 percent per year. Registration in state universities are increasing at a rate of 2 percent.
Lamar and other partners Higher Ed Holdings have begun to react to this new competitive reality. And Professor Sisk Lamar tries to get the message.
"I'm on the edge of a private school, Mount Union, Ohio, and I told him to do this, "he said, referring to using a service like Ed Holdings increased move their courses online." I have a friend at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, who told me they are trying to move all its online courses they can.
"I think this is the future."
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