Fees for international students range from £10,000 to £11,550 for on-site courses.
An experimental 30-credit masters program at SUNY Stony Brook in systems management now offers a combination of on-site courses and distance learning.
In it, the selected participants complied with being registered on blended and on-site courses from different degree programs.
Work-Life in Industry: Thinking Outside the 9-to-5 Box addresses how industry and corporate employers are catering to today's work-life demands with flexible work hours, tuition reimbursement, on-site daycare centers and fitness centers, sabbaticals, and on-site courses.
On-site courses included time for questions and discussion during and after lectures.
The greater satisfaction with on-site courses may also mean that further efforts are needed to enhance faculty-trainee interaction during on-line training.
Both the Biostatistics and Research Ethics on-line and on-site courses included structured live group activities and case discussions, in addition to the formal lectures.
Courses were provided at no cost to participating students, and all travel, accommodation, and meal costs for participation in the on-site courses were provided.
Although results were similar when assessed 3 months after the courses, for both knowledge domains, we found higher knowledge scores, particularly for Biostatistics, immediately after the on-site courses, than after the on-line course.
However, due to the randomized design, this effect would have been similar for on-line and on-site courses, and would not affect our conclusions of comparative performance of the two training formats.
The introduction of online courses in research ethics and biostatistics were as useful in upgrading the knowledge of Indian scientists who undertook these, as were the "traditional" on-site courses [ 21].
