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If you’re an older adult who’s always wanted to continue your education and you just haven’t had time to, or if you want to go back to class for that advanced degree but a full-time job keeps you from signing up for classes, you’re in luck. Today, online universities afford nontraditional students, parents, those with full-time jobs, and others not able to go back to school full time in a traditional university setting the liberty to continue their educations on their own schedules.
It used to be that if you wanted to go back to college, you had to go to school part-time, at night, or otherwise arrange your schedule inconveniently, so that you could be at classes on campus. Alternatively, of course, you could quit your job if you had the means to do so and go back to school full time. However, today, you can keep your full-time career and your regular schedule intact and still get that degree you want. Got kids you need to be home for? No problem. An online collegeslets you attend classes on your own schedule, be home for your kids and anything else you need to be there for — and oftentimes, you won’t have to step foot outside your house to do so until the latter part of your training, at least. It’s likely that you’ll need some hands-on fieldwork study eventually outside your home, but you can get the early parts of your bachelors degree done completely at home and on your own schedule.
One of the first things you need to do is to look for a two-year college that is fully accredited. For this, check the school and make sure it has accreditation from the Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education; the Distance Education and Training Council is the accrediting organization for these types of universities, also called “distance learning” institutions. You can also ask the college itself for references and find other students who have attended a particular distance-learning program, to make sure that it provides the quality schooling you want. Of course, you’ll also want to check your field of study and find a distance-learning college that specializes in that.
Another consideration for many students is financial aid. Previously, students attending distance-learning programs were not offered financial aid unless at least 50% of their education was completed on a physical campus. This is no longer true, which is perhaps as a result of both the improvement of distance learning training training and the recognition that this type of schooling is, some say, the wave of the future. Today, it is often considered a indulgence to be able to go to school full time as a student, and these types of classes recognize that no longer can many people simply drop their lives and go to school full time. Many students these days are nontraditional students with other responsibilities beyond their own lives, so that they do not have the indulgence to devote three or four years’ time exclusively to an education.
Perhaps the number one place to help you determine your potential school’s accreditation is to look at the regional accreditation board in your school’s area. If your school is accredited by this board, it will be fully accepted by employers and other professional organizations as a admissible school. This, in turn, makes it much easier to get hired and recognition. In fact, many organizations and employers will not recognize a masters degree unless it is from an accredited college. However, if you take the time to make sure your certificate program is accredited, your online learning is every bit as valid as one you would obtain on campus.
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Kaplan - well respected — http://www.getinfo.kaplan.edu/Microsite_B/criminalJustice.aspx?source=106813&ve=60120
20 great US colleges and universities with free online courses
If you don't have the resources to go to college, I suggest you self-study on the course you want to take since there are a lot of textbooks available on the library or the net then look for some schools that offers examinations that gives certification if you passed.
Maybe a few, but my ex and my friend did University of Phoenix online and paid a whole bunch of money and never got a diploma…got dropped from their classes and still have to pay all that money back…I would say dont do that one…
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Some clarifications:
1) I suspect Stewart cannot give away his calculus under the Creative Commons License even if he wanted to. Most textbooks’ copyrights are owned by the publishers, who invest a considerable amount of money in a textbook - from development, design and production to sales and marketing. I’m pretty sure that his publisher own the copyright for his books. I know mine does for my texts. And not every book that’s invested in makes it to the million dollar club.
2) In another blog post on differential eqns., you mentioned choosing a more expensive diff eq. text over a Dover book because you were teaching a lot of courses and didn’t have time to create computer labs. Fair enough. Textbooks like Boyce/Diprima incur development costs to include computer labs and whatever other stuff it comes with. And that affects the cost of textbooks - big time.
Nowadays, publishers cannot just publish a book at the calculus level and below - they must publish a “program” - student’s edition, Instructor’s edition, Instructor solutions manual, DVD’s, online web homework with tech support etc. Colleges and instructors do not pay for any of the instructor resources. How can any organization be expected to produce all this without a profit incentive? Do other vendors who routinely provide services to the college such as administrative software and telecommunications maintenance do it for no profit?
3) By the way, Gil Strang’s Calculus textbook is available for FREE through MIT’s open courseware program why aren’t faculty flocking to this?
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm
This is from MIT. I haven't investigated the actual coursework, but I intend to next year.
I found a site for you to check out.
In my experience, I have found that on line
colleges are the same as regular colleges, the only
difference is that you learn in the privacy of your own
home and not sitting in a class room.
The best news is many employers accept on line degrees.
Best of luck to you.
ofcourse! there are numerous online colleges not only in California but across USA. Simply log on to to access complete information about online colleges in California and the whole of USA.
hope it helps
go to DETC.org. Look up what you want.
Being an RD requires you to do a supervised internship…….