Title: How Employers View Online Degrees: Interviews with Nine Hiring Executives
Headings: How Do Employers View Online Degrees?
How Do Employers View Online Degrees?
Meet the Interviewees: Nine CEOs and Executives
Employer Perceptions of Online Education
Positive perceptions of online degrees included:
Negative perceptions of online degrees included:
Positive Perceptions of Online Degrees
Negative Perceptions of Online Degrees
Conclusions: What to Consider Before Enrolling in an Online Program
Jocelyn Blore

Content: The internet is removing geographic boundaries to commerce and interpersonal relationships, and it will certainly impact education as well. Trevor Leb, Chief Marketing Officer of BoardVitals, Inc.
BoardVitals, Inc. is a comprehensive training resource for online medical and healthcare certifications, providing study materials for exams and continuing education across more than 50 specialty areas. I’m a bit skeptical of online degrees as a candidate’s only form of education largely because the market hasn’t validated online programs to be equivalent to traditional campus-based programs. Misha Leybovich, CEO at Flippy (made by Meograph)
Flippy is an entertainment app with a vast library of material to create personalized parodies of famous YouTube clips, music videos, and more. Our perspective on alternatives to traditional campus-based education is that we are open to those candidates, but generally find that they need to have a fair amount of not-just-homework experience to be able to contribute. Jim Spearman, President & CEO at Consensys Imaging Service, Inc.
Consensys Imaging Service, Inc. provides diagnostic imaging equipment in several modalities, including MRI, CT, mammography, and ultrasound machines. In general, I don’t view online degrees any less favorably than in-residence learning. However, somewhere along the way there should be some in-residence formal learning experience. Employer Perceptions of Online Education
In the first three months of 2017, the nine executives with hiring experience graciously weighed in with their perceptions of online education. They responded to three questions in a mix of telephone and email-based interviews: