MIT’s Technology Review website offers some great insights about distance learning.  Here’s a link:

http://www.technologyreview.com/CareerResources/career/qa/online.aspx

To quote from the website above:

“In a recent survey conducted among Boston University online students, almost half of them indicated that their online programs were superior to a face-to-face classroom experience. Many students noted that they have forged lasting personal and professional relationships through their online learning experiences.”

For quite some time, we’ve been planning to extend the IEM Program to a wider geography through distance learning, offering the same content and quality as the on-campus version.  We are now in the process of rolling that out.  It’s an exciting time for the program.

If you haven’t read his article on job creation in the July 5 – July 11 issue of Bloomberg Businessweek, you really ought to read it.

“What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work – and masses of unemployed?” (Quote from former Intel CEO Andy Grove)

Here’s a link to the article:

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_28/b4186048358596.htm?chan=magazine+channel_top+stories

Very insightful.

http://www.uab.edu/uabmagazine/2010/june/iem

If you want to understand what IEM is all about, this is a must read.