College courses online?
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You may find some classes you are looking for at your state schools. Some will have "Independent Study" courses that will transfer in most instances. As always, check with an advisor at your school first to make certain they are acceptable and will fulfill degree requirements or electives. If an advisor tells you it will be O.K., get it in writing if at all possible. If not, at least make note of the time and name of the person you spoke to.
Here are a few independent study sites for you.
Independent study at LSU - http://is.lsu.edu
Independent study at Mississippi State - http://www.is.msstate.edu/college/index.
Oklahoma University CIDL - http://isd.ou.edu/
Independent Study in Idaho DE - http://www.uidaho.edu/isi/
LSU is by far the cheapest at $76 per credit hour, so start there first. There are many others, do Yahoo or Google searches on "Independent Study" or "Continuing Education".
Good luck
1st of all, any program you enter should be regionally accredited. Regional accreditation shows that the school has passed a review process that will help ensure that your credits will transfer to other schools.
Be sure to check here before you enroll: http://www.chea.org/search/
Regionally accredited Online degrees are the same accreditation as other schools. However, online schools lack the prestige or name recognition of traditional on ground schools.
As far as choices, here are just some to looking to:
Franklin University www.franklin.edu
Baker College www.baker.edu
Kaplan University www.kaplan.edu
Davenport University Online
I don't know of any other online colleges where you can take classes but i would suggest contacting your main college to ask them what online schools they accept credits from because colleges do not always accept all credits from certain schools.
A lot of 'traditional' schools in Canada have a distance/online department where you can courses either through independent study or online and even earn your entire degree this way. Because these courses are offered by 'tradional' universities, when you graduate no one will know that that you never attended a regular lecture.
www.cvu-uvc.ca/ Is a site where you can start looking. Some universities that offer online/distance courses are not listed on that website, but you should be able to find out if a 'ground school' has distance/online courses by simply going to their website.
To take courses towards your degree, you'll need a letter of permission.
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