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MASTER’S NOTEBOOK
TAMU Launches Online Master’s Programs
S
imon Sheather, head of the
Department of Statistics at Texas
Does your school offer an online master’s degree? Highlight the advantages
A&M University, is pleased to
announce a new online master’s degree and
of your school’s master’s in statistics program in an upcoming issue of
certificate program. The online master’s pro-
Amstat News. Or, if you are a student who has recently graduated with
gram includes 36 hours of course work,
a master’s degree in statistics by way of an online program, we would
while the online certificate program is made
like to hear from you. Email Amstat News Managing Editor Megan Murphy
up of 12 focused hours. Both programs may
be customized to meet specific student
at megan@amstat.org or Assistant Director of Research and Graduate
needs, with areas of emphasis including
Education Keith Crank at keith@amstat.org.
business analytics, biostatistics, applied sta-
tistics, and AP Statistics teacher training.
Michael Speed, professor and direc-
tor of online learning at Texas A&M
In addition, online students interact with flexibility to study at any time or in any
said, “Although this is the first year of the
each other and their instructors via discussion place. This allows students to complete
department’s program, we have more than
boards and web conferencing. Students in their coursework while maintaining and
exceeded our target enrollment and have
the online programs also complete the same enhancing their careers.
recruited many exceptional individuals
homework assignments and take the same In addition to the master’s program,
into our program. For example, we have
midterm and final exams. A primary benefit there are more than 75 students enrolled
a physician who teaches at a medical uni-
for students taking the online courses is the in other online courses. n
versity, a high-school teacher, a university
professor, a meteorologist, a risk analyst,
and a senior research scientist. In addi-
tion, three students are in the military,
with one serving in Iraq.”
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Although this is the first
year of the department’s
program, we have more than
exceeded our target enroll-
ment and have recruited many
exceptional individuals into
our program.
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The new programs are an integrated
extension of the on-campus program and
are based on replicating the on-campus
experience as closely as possible. This
replication is achieved by recording each
on-campus class using screen-capturing
software. The result is such that everything
the on-campus students see and hear
in class is captured to be watched later
by students in the online programs.
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