Flashcards for Business Success

You are a business owner and you are looking to recruit and retain employees with a high caliber of talent. As your eyes scan their resume you see the many accolades and accreditations of business degrees from some outstanding colleges. The question you need to ask yourself as an employer these days is, are you really getting what you are about to pay for.
There are hundreds upon hundreds of universities that offer online degrees. By no circumstances is a student required to identify on their resume that they obtained the degree from a distance learning institution.  But what you may not know is how much easier integrity can be compromised when it comes to online classes.
All institutions have some sort of code of ethics put in place. They do not however have any rules against using online study tools. However, what we can now see online for business courses is astounding.  There are several websites that students go on that they can search for classes to get study notes. But when you really did deeper, these study notes are actually test and quiz questions for that exact course. Students from all over the country and even across the globe can simply search for their course and find the countless students who were brave enough to create their own set of “flash cards” for a specific course. Now I guess if you are physically taking these tests in an educational institution perhaps they might pass as a useful study tool. But what about those student online? The ones who test on their very own. They can easily see the answers or search for the answers while they are online.
The other side to this argument would be that most accredited institutions allow open book testing anyways. The challenge to that would be how much the online learner is really learning. So as a business owner, an HR manager or even a recruiter, how much of your decisions in regards to recruiting talent for your organization do base on education? Do you feel comfortable knowing that there is a possibility that your dean’s list business student may very well not be your ace in the whole? With the technology getting more and more advanced and the more options that are out there to get things done from the very own comfort of your home, you may never want to take anything, including degrees at their face value.