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Online education has revolutionized distance learning, providing greater convenience and opening new doors for a lot of people who want to inflate their career potential. If you are interested in getting a education online, there are a number of things you should consider.
The first thing you have to make sure of is if online schooling is right for you. Enrolling in an online graduate school or college is ideal for working people or stay-at-home parents. If your other priorities leave you no opportunity to make it to scheduled classes, taking courses online is the best way to go, provided you have a good amount of self-discipline when it comes to time management. Online learning is really for people who do very well with minimum supervision. It can also provide that second chance at further training for older adults who may not feel too comfortable attending classes with people who are a lot younger.
Signing up for an online university degree doesn’t mean that you’ll be getting substandard instruction. An accredited online institution ensures that students get adequate online guidance from their instructors with the use of internet tools. Challenging individual and group projects may be given by your professors, for which you can use various online resources. Forums, message boards and chat rooms are often provided in online college websites to have a venue for and encourage interaction between online students.
There are a lot of different online courses available including associate degrees, bachelor’s, master’s, and even doctorates in fields like healthcare/nursing, business and marketing, information technology, psychology, schooling, and even biology and electrical engineering. As long as you enroll in accredited online colleges, there’s no need to doubt the credibility of this kind of schooling. The syllabi, resource materials, exams, and sometimes even instructors are the same for both online and classroom training. Employers are also generally confident that online graduates have skills as competitive as those who got their programs the traditional way.
Once you’ve made up your mind to continue your studies through online learning, the next step is to choose the right degree program and online institute to enroll in. Keep the following in mind:
1. When choosing a field of study, you may want to consider what kind of career may be lucrative for you.
2. For institutions who are not purely online and have physical campuses, check if there’s still a residency requirement or if you’ll have to occasionally show up for exams, etc. Consider if you can work these in your schedule.
3. See if the credits you’ll be getting from an online postgraduate school will be transferable just in case you’ll have to continue with another school at some point.
4. Check if the online college has resources like an online library and tutorial services. You may want to get more value out of your enrollment.
5. Beware online diploma mills, especially if what you’re really after is schooling that can be of use in your future career.
6. Most importantly, check if the online postgraduate school is accredited by the appropriate regional agency. Your diploma will be useless if not issued by an accredited college.
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I suggest you research some of the current law on job testing before assuming that exams could ever be given by employers. According to the supreme court it really isn’t legal, unless of course you happen to be a government employer. They get to test your IQ or anything else for that matter and use that information to determine whether or not to hire.
I’m currently a 28 year old undergrad with a disability and I can echo some of the concerns the gentlemen had about getting around campus. I solved the majority of that problem by only taking Math/Physics courses spring/fall and taking most of my gen-ed classes during the summer. The bigger solution however was going to a small undergrad school whose campus isn’t the size of a small town.
I’ll try to stay on point somewhat and say that I highly doubt online universities will ever replace B&M for two reasons:
1. prestige
2. environment (cheating/competition/motivation/etc)
I had the unfortunate experience of taking two courses with the University of Phoenix online and was very disappointed at the complete lack of quality control involved in their admissions process. There were people in my “Critical Thinking” course that were incapable of communicating with peers or the professor. I am not 100% sure on this but from what I’ve been told this person passed the course with a B.
If you want to see incentive for grade inflation—- look online. These online colleges are marketed as a easy/work from home at own pace solution to getting that piece of paper that will (maybe in an alternate universe without the US economic situation) get you a better job.
ON THE BRIGHT SIDE!!! iTunesU, MIT Opencourseware and others are AMAZING tools for a student, especially in cases where that student may not agree with the lecture style in his/her course. My personal experience with this is Dr. Lewin’s MIT freshman physics courses that are lectured in such an amazing manner. This isn’t to say that my current physics prof isn’t doing a great job, because he is. But, Lewin gets to play with expensive toys in class that help provide further intuition and elucidation behind the ideas being presented. And while we get some examples shown physically, being at a small underfunded (compared to MIT- I think nearly everyone is in that subset of schools) undergraduate university we don’t have the expensive apparatus and the army of TAs to set them up.
With that being said, I don’t simply skip lecture or play video games during them. I like to use the MIT lectures to provide what can sometimes be the different POV that either opens up a question I’m dying to ask my professor or teaches applications of theory that we don’t have to time or the equipment to properly do at my school.
To summarize my rambling post:
1. Changing laws on job testing- unlikely (effectual changes anyway)
2. Paid for online schooling - marketed primarily to people who want the piece of paper saying they have a bachelors without attending a school. I understand that there are many different reasons for this. However, the fact that it cost more than a B&M education, I have trouble keeping myself from the believe that at least a good portion of these students are doing it because its easier.
3. Free or very cheep online schooling- MIT Open Course Ware and Walter Lewin made me want to study physics (well him and Feynman but that was the written motivation). I guess you could say Feynman pushed me towards physics and Lewin made it fun! And making physics fun will solve the problem of retention and I think also the problem of quality of graduates where that problem exists.
OH! before I free you from my TL:DR rant, I wanted to bring up another good point. The more I see classmates hanging out on facebook and playing videogames or outright sleeping through lectures I have serious doubts as to whether they need to be in the classroom in the first place. Go go compulsory attendance (which I’m fairly opposed to but can see the other side of the argument)
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This is a difficult question to answer, but I believe Georgetown University has a program with Diplomacy as well as Linguistics, or you can choose from a multitude of languages: Arabic, Chinese, East Asian Languages, Eastern Mediterranean Languages, Italian, Slavic Languages, Spanish and Portuguese, and many more. I hope this helps!
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The best? The best online programs are at the best colleges. Easy enough.
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There are 1000's of choices for you out there. Everyone and his brother teaches online these days.
I bet the community college that you're planning to attend also teaches online. Take a look and see.
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college can be like mass media since you are getting a view from one authority that you must listen to. With social media, you can compile your own reliable sources and get info without a bias. In the same way, you can get a better education with all the sources online. There are many colleges offering their courses online but you will only get grades and a diploma if you pay tuition first. Self educating can give you more opportunity to learn and learn what you love. That being said, it only works if you are passionate about what you are learning and about learning and moving forward in general. College does give you structure though and in many cases, it’s the diploma that you are looking for.