College class online?
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Most colleges have lots of classes online. You don't need to go to a special online only school; in fact, it is better if you don't. Go to a good, accredited, PHYSICAL college/university instead. Then take its virtual classes. Best of both worlds.
Not a good idea. Go to the real thing--- it looks better, you'll learn more, there will be more experiences, etc
Try www.Caluniversity.com, all courses are distance education!!
What do you want to know? Are they good? Where to go?
They key things to know are this. For any college that you decide to attend, you need to ensure that the college is accredited. There are f2f colleges and online colleges that do not meet educational standards, and you will be wasting your time if you take classes at a place like this.
Some people are of the opinion that online classes aren't as good as f2f classes. This can be true, but f2f classes can be bad also. Online classes often require you to do a lot of learning on your own. They also require you to be very organized and active in an online classroom. If you have a teacher that doesn't require you to add to class discusses, you can miss out on a lot of great information.
Here's the thing, great schools are moving to online classes. Even MIT and Harvard pffer online classes to their students. In most cases, the online class is just like the f2f class.
You just have to do what is right for you. Be ready to work, they aren't easy.
I am currently doing the University of Phoenix and absolutely love it. I have three kids and love the fact that I can stay home with them and get my education at the same time. The degrees are limited though, but if interested in Buisness, Criminal Justice, Health Administration or IT, then you can get you associates in one of those and then continue a more specific bachelors degree
I find online classes are a really good option for the busy college student. I took about 4 online courses during my college career and they were great. You work at your own pace and just keep up with your deadlines like any class. But be careful which classes you choose to take online. Classes that typically need a lot of instruction, such as sciences, are not recommended to take online.
Online classes can be a great experience, or a disaster. The first thing to find out is how computer saavy your professor is. If they don't present the course to you in an organized reliable fashion, then you need to drop it before the drop add period ends. The professor may be a great professor by subject, however, they might not be the best when it comes to technology. In this case, you're better off attending the class.
I took 2 online courses, both in informatics. Being that it was an informatics class, my professors were very computer saavy, and the presentation of the course went very well.
As far as work load, it was harder than attending class. It was harder because we had forums for weekly discussion, and we were graded on our participation of weekly discussion. So, in order to be a part of the discussion, you had to keep ontop of all the readings, lectures, and homework, in order to be able to have a conversation about the weekly topics with the professor and classmates, or risk failing the forum participation. In a classroom, if you show up, and don't want to be bothered that particular week in answering classroom questions, you don't have to, and you're usually not at risk for losing points toward your grade, whereas in my online class, that was not an option.
My online classes also required more of my time, than classes i attended in person. Sometimes it was necessary to listen to a new lecture every night of that week to keep up, versus attending class only 2 or 3 times per week.
The good thing about online class, was professors can use alternative learning tools, which provides additional means to convey ideas about a subject, including interactive tools, links videos, and sfotware, which were very interesting and different.
I'm just going to add one thing, make sure a school is accredited and preferrably by a regional accreditor. You can check accreditation at http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/search.a... and you can read more about accreditation at http://www.ed.gov/admins/finaid/accred/i...
Hint: If a school's primary address is a ".com", it's most likely not accredited and a degree from there would be close to useless and in some states, illegal.
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