Re:Ask HN: Is am online Master's equal to a regular one?
by aurizon on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @07:55PM
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A lot depends on the discipline. Hard sciences often have research theses based on actual experiments and also have you supervise higher year undergraduate lab sessions as well as instruction - all hard on line.
Arts masters and documentary masters, like economics etc are more amenable to online Masters
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Re:Ask HN: Is am online Master's equal to a regular one?
by NYUTandonScam on Thursday June 27, 2024 @08:47AM
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NYU has the same content for their Cybersecurity Online Masters as the Offline one, but;
1. The offline accepts ~20-50 students per year, whereas the online accepts 5000.
2. The offline costs ~$70k, whereas the online costs ~$18k.
Are these two the same, would you say?
And if they're, why go as far as to lie about having acquired it online, when it doesn't even matter?
Re:Ask HN: Is am online Master's equal to a regular one?
by aurizon on Friday June 28, 2024 @11:51AM
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How are the students quantified? How are knowledge and skills tested? Online cheating on tests is rampant. In my years tested people were 6 feet in rows from each other and zero e-devices were around(1964) - crib sheets were it and were watched for. Now e-cribbing is a mature tech with diverse com methods. A faraday cage around a test hall is being done for group tests, but how do you invigilate online test candidates = of what value is their passing mark? How good is their MA?