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Tri-Valley Fraud or Innovation ?


Recent news about Tri-Valley university has created lots of heart burns to many people and there were lots of pro and con comments. And if you read the forums and comments one could see a War going on in the web world. Today I do not want to discuss that particular issue and I am not interested in the analyzing who is right and who is not.

But deep under this I see a Innovation happening in the modern world of Internet, email , YouTube , social networking , clouding computing etc.

Are you confused ? what is the innovation here. Most innovating thing which I see in this education model in the making the graduates learn through Internet and work as well.

Isn’t this sound familiar, already in India we have distance learning , In US there are lots of executive MBA which offers people to study and also work simultaneously. Other example which I can think of is the BITS Pilani MS program. Where lots of software engineers are taking up. Then what was different in Tri-Valley which offered students to work and study simultaneously.

According to me there is no difference. Only issue in this case was the government authorization, because the university was not transparent in letting the government officials about their offering to the students. so it was considered sham.

Because of the innovation, the number of students getting enrollment to the university sky rocketed from 100 to 1500 students in just 10 months. Is it the offering given by the university was so good that students got drawn towards it. Online classes , work while you study , no stipulated timings and no confinement to class rooms. won’t the students and working professionals love this model of education. Why not have this kind of university? Of course there must be required approvals from the government.

The next big question will be the recognitions, will the industry recognize these degrees ? Why not if the quality of students coming out these universities are excellent. I am sure that in next 10 to 15 years one would find lots of universities running on this model which would enable any student to get the required qualification from any part of the world.

Sit back for a moment and assume if all of IITs , IIMs, Harvard , MIT , Berkley etc offer online course with proper examinations and degree. Don’t you think students , professionals and others will be eager to join.Look at the pricing model, universities will be getting more students , lesser cost , no infrastructure required. And more over anybody from the remotest place could get an a degree from an esteemed university and finally a good job.
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