[Vnbiz] C.K. finished MBA

Tue Jun 26 12:58:54 PDT 2007

Hi Craig and sisters and brothers, 

  Thank you for the wish and the input, can you tell me why you like Webtycho? I have always use Blackboard so this is a new term for me.  
  If anyone in here have not taken an eClass before, Blackboard is a virtual webpage that give me access to the class's information as well as posting chat log or question, or assignments to the professor as well as other classmate.  

Craig Stevenson <cstevenson2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
  [ Vietnam Business Forum ]

  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:     [ Vietnam Business Forum ]

  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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