UD never tires of touting the advantages of online education — the most amazing of which is that no one can ever know whether you, or someone smarter than you, took your online course or exam.
Online gets even prettier with financial incentives. The Tennessee county employees featured in this post’s headline were offered $6,000 if they finished a University of Tennessee continuing education course. They’re charged with pocketing the money and getting someone else to do the course.
January 22nd, 2012 at 8:11AM
In addition to the cheating issue…what exactly is a CTAS program and why would the operations of this county benefit from various officials and bureaucrats having taken it, if they really had?
How many “continuing education” requirements/incentives really accomplish anything other than putting money into the pockets of the recipients and providing a revenue stream for some of the less-intellectual departments of various universities?