Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois Springfield

Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Thursday, April 07, 2005
Online law degree? You bet - Mark Baylis, Lompoc Record
As an international commercial airline pilot, Jim Denton was sure his desire to work and simultaneously study law would be impossible. Then the Lompoc resident read about Concord Law School. The California online school is the first institution to offer a Juris Doctor (JD) degree earned wholly online and to be recognized by the California State Bar. During time zone-induced insomnia in Tokyo and layovers in Shanghai, Denton soaked up streaming video lectures and inter-student chat sessions. "The fact that I could actually attend class in Hong Kong is pretty phenomenal," Denton said.

 



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