25 May 2005

Learning Online: Trump University's Way

Donald Trump - He's built buildings, written books, married models and starred in a reality TV show. Yesterday, Donald Trump announced his latest venture: Trump University.

The for-profit online university will not offer degrees or grades. Courses will cost $300 and will take one to two weeks to complete. It will consist of online courses, CD-ROMS, consulting services and Learning Annex-type seminars.

"In today's hyper-competitive business climate, the need for the highest quality education has become more crucial than ever," Trump said. "But people are looking beyond the traditional business education model, which involves hours in the classroom and relies primarily on book learning."

Students (or customers, as Trump University staffers refer to them) will be able to register for classes in marketing, real estate and entrepreneurship, with additional curriculum areas planned for the future.

Read more here.

2 comments:

Ahsan Kaleem said...

Thanks Salman for your post and your views on virtual teaching.
You are very much right about the positives people gain from such an initiative.
However after the negatives you pointed out such as staring at a screen which might damage eyesight as well as be exhausting, would agree that the positives are greater than the negatives?
Should this new innovative programme of online teaching be the future?

Ahsan Kaleem said...

Well Salman, there are different ways a person learns more effectively.

Some people prefer to learn through ways such as reading, hearing and visual.

Therefore as you mentioned said visual means can be effective but only to certain people as every person is different to another and therefore prefers different ways to understand and learn things.