UTEP offers 100% online degrees

and i’m rick cabrera. utep students can now earn their bachelors and masters degrees- without ever having to set foot on campus. utep connect now offers full and complete online degrees for their students. abc-7’s iris lopez is live at the utep campus, iris? rick, estela, utep now has bachelors and masters programs where students can earn a degree without ever coming to campus. larry professor: “anyone can do it. that’s one of the beauties of online education.” larry valero’s national security department is one of five participating in “utep connects” 100- percent online degree program. josie asst. dean: “in the past utep has offered a variety of online courses but we’ve never had a portfolio of fully online degree programs.” “so we have about undergraduate programs and we will eventually have 15-20 graduate programs and a student would never have to technically step foot on campus, they could complete the entire degree online.” larry: “this utep connect is an attempt at getting utep a much broader and even international exposure utep’ hopes to appeal to people whose busy schedules otherwise prevent them from going back to school. josie: “a student can actually continue working even if life happens.” student “i mean it’s a lot easier t take online courses if for instance i’m working a full- time job and i have other obligations at home.” the pro are clear … josie: “definitely th flexibility.” and the con’s? “so i think that a online student has to be prepared to manage their time pretty disciplined.” they tel me online students won’t get an unfair advantage. ” theres programs that will loc down a browser and they cant open up any other browsers and the camera will actually come on on their monitors so it will video record them as they are doing their exam.” 8:50 “the quality and the structur are very similar our faculty work really hard to ensure that what that what they’re providing online is the same of what they’re providing in classrooms.” we have a link to utep’s online course website at kvia.com just look in the links section. giving the district something to chew on!