[Vnbiz] C.K. finished MBA

Tue Jun 26 05:31:54 PDT 2007

Hi All:

Congratulations CK, well done, I am sure you are breathing a sigh of relief
and looking forward to a little more sleep.

I am still trying to adjust to new life and sleeping patterns and look
forward to coffee with those of you in Hanoi.

I wanted to weigh into this discussion as online education is the wave of
the near future.  Will mostly put the bricks and mortar schools to the test
of creating more relevant education for those of us wanting to advance our
education who also have busy adult lives.

Strayer is a great school, some others to look at are:

University of Maryland University College (Marylands Distance provider)

Athabasca University (Esteemed Distance Provider from Canada, has a very
interesting Masters of Arts in Integrated Studies)

St Petersburgh University (out of Russia)

Forts Hayes State College

University of London-External (Offers a very affordable, by Western
standards BA in Philosophy which is able to be done at a distance over the
interenet.)

University of California (Dominguez Hills)  (Has a MA in Quality Assurance,
an MBA, and a few others)

UNISA   (University of South Africa, Quite affordable, Very Respected
Organization, Many programs)

Some Scandinavian Countries are starting to offer distance programs.  Often
these are for free, some require yearly travel to the particular country
which can be very expensive as Scandinavina countries are very expensive to
live in.

Open Universities exist everywhere.   UK, HK, Etc.....

Frankly this sounds like a potential new org.  Recently Overseas Indians
have started an NGO modeled on the Peace Corp that sends overseas Indians
back to India for many purposes.

Perhaps, an online institution could be set up which would alleviate the
need for individuals to return but enable those interested to participate
from afar in the case of Overseas Vietnamese.  There are open source
courseware that can be used.  I am not sure about back end maintenance work
but would assume archiving, etc, to be considerable.  When I find the links
to the open source courseware I will post it here.

Many schools are using Blackboard but I prefer Webtycho. Interestingly, it
is quite easy and affordable to start an educational institution in
California that is at least State Accrediated, if not regionally accrediated
which is what is most sought after in the US.

Anyway, wanted to drop a note.

Craig

On 6/25/07, Tran Dinh Hoanh <tdhoanh at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Dear CK and CACC,
>
> Last Saturday I attended CK's graduation ceremony.  She is a VNBIZer, once
> in a while she posts something so you may not have noticed her.   She is my
> baby sister.  I am the head and she is the tail of the siblings.  Her name
> is Cam Tu, but she goes by CK, which, according to her, stands for Crazy
> Kid.  She works as a loan officer and real estate agent and graduates from
> Strayer University with an MBA.  I have a picture of her and me here FYI.
>
> But I want to talk about the interesting Strayer University
> http://strayer.college-info.org/ . This 115-year-old university, from its
> beginning, has devoted itself exclusively to serve "adult students,"
> meaning, students who work full time while going to school.  It doesn't have
> a big campus.  It has little campuses throughout the US and other parts of
> the world.  As I sat in the arena for the ceremony, I said to myself, "Wow,
> this is fascinating.  Someone has devoted his work for adult
> college education 115 years ago.  This man really has a great vision.  (My
> law school, Marquette University Law School, a Jesuit school, is also the
> first law school in the US that opened night, part-time classes for (poor)
> law students about 120 years ago.  And I have always felt proud of that
> devotion to the poor).  Anyway, I thought I would like our brothers/sisters
> at home to be aware of a tradition of devotion to serve working students.  I
> hope we will have a university like this in Vietnam.  I would love to talk
> to Strayer to see if it can branch out to Vietnam. CK, you want to do that?
>
> Coincidentally, the main speaker was a Strayer alumni, a four-star general
> of the US Marine Corps.  And he talked about leadership, my favorite
> subject.  He told the students, "Your leadership doesn't start when someone
> gives you a position or a big title. You leadership starts here, right where
> you sit now."   He had a couple of long stories, but his main point was:
> "Leadership is your willing to sacrifice yourself, including your life, to
> help and to save others."
>
> Great day, CK and everyone.
>
> Hoanh
>
> --
> Tran Dinh Hoanh, LLB, JD
> Washington DC
>
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