jon stoops
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Online education used to be my profession. I was the Executive Director of Curriculum for one of the world's largest online education companies.
In the early days, colleges frequently told professors to create an online program in their spare time while giving next to no instruction on how to do it. Many of those classes were little more than lists of reading assignments from a textbook. Others were a little more complex, with some written material delivered online or videos of lectures. In contrast, when we made online courses, they was made by teams of specialists designing content, creating visuals aids, and using specialized software to make the courses interactive. Creating a single course would typically cost us about $100,000. That was a decade ago, and I am sure that cost is now significantly higher.
The range in quality of online courses is enormous.
Hello, I am new to this site and really not sure how it all works, so I apologize for commenting on this thread, please delete if not allowed. My son is a junior in high school and still trying to figure out what he is wanting to do for college. He currently says he wants to be a marine biologist, but I am not sure if he understands what that entails, and if he even has the grades for that, he is 3.0/4.0 student. He really wants to be near the water and work on the water so I am asking for a little guidance on the best degrees we should look for and possible colleges to attend. The caveat to all of this is that he is a very good baseball player and wants to continue to play baseball. I know this is a lot to ask for but if anyone has some guidance that would be great. We live in Indiana so google searches are about my only source of knowledge try to help him.