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[paulc]

Of the six approaches I have made to on-line universities to request their help with hosting our courses, I have not received a single reply. So, I am not really sure what to do from this point. Of course it is not just the hosting but also the accreditation side of things that we need. We also need people to write such courses. I guess we must represent too small a market for them to be interested in. Perhaps I should conduct a market analysis and get some hard data from our members on exactly how many of them would be interested in undertaking such courses. I think it would have to be several hundred for the on-line universities to be interested in us. So for now, this seems a dead issue, unless someone can offer another approach.

[Live Forever]

Of the six approaches I have made to on-line universities to request their help with hosting our courses, I have not received a single reply.  So, I am not really sure what to do from this point.  Of course it is not just the hosting but also the accreditation side of things that we need.  We also need people to write such courses.  I guess we must represent too small a market for them to be interested in.  Perhaps I should conduct a market analysis and get some hard data from our members on exactly how many of them would be interested in undertaking such courses.  I think it would have to be several hundred for the on-line universities to be interested in us.  So for now, this seems a dead issue, unless someone can offer another approach.

Well, paul it sounded like an exciting idea. Would it perhaps be a good idea to offer some types of classes just on our own? I know that they would not be "official" classes, and not provide credit for college or anything like that, but it might be a way to start small while trying to educate people. They could be 6-8 week courses, or something of that nature, where the lecture is provided once a week in .mp3 format, or through Skype, or something like that, with small assignments, etc.

I do not think that you would be able to get hundreds of people as you mentioned above, but starting out if there could be 10-20 people or more in each session, that would be a start in the right direction, and possible lead to being able to offer a class at an online university?

Maybe or maybe not good ideas? Just throwing out some ideas.