Q&A: How do online college courses work?
by Rakka
Question by cdlc: How do online college courses work?
I want to go back to teach and im interested in taking online courses (my major would be sociology/criminal justice). How do they work? how will i be paying, and is it worth it?
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Answer by flyguyso
the same way as if your were in class just over the internet
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try belford uni
With online college work you do a fantastic deal of work independently. You can have online friend with the instructor and with other students.
Here is a link to a university that has done distance education for many years, since long before online schooling became well loved. It is a reputable teach and if you browse their site you should find much of the information you need. Best of luck with it.
it’s worth it if you find an qualified teach (which means you can transfer your credits by the side of with you in case you’d like to go to a traditional teach or find a cheaper and better online teach). if it’s not qualified and something happens, it’s like wasting your time. the university of phoenix seems to be a huge name in online education right now, you might want to try out that out. as far as prices, uncommon schools charge uncommon rates - so it doesn’t hurt to research a teach in which your interested in and question! excellent luck, online courses are hard to dedicate time to - at least it is for me. you have to be a very restricted person and be very serious on completing your assignments.
There are a diversity of formats for online courses. Generally, they can be:
1) perfectly online, no campus meetings or face to face friend with other students / faculty.
2) mostly online, a few campus meetings (often for exams), smallest friend with other students / faculty.
3) in this area 50-50 online and class friend time (often the case with schools transitioning to the planet of online courses).
4) mostly class with some online (these schools are way down on the low end of the online course transition curve).
Key considerations for online work….having a Plot B, and Plot C or more. The use of the internet is the sticking top…ISP goes down, your notebook system goes down…what is the back up plot?
In some online classes, materials are posted for download (sometimes for a restricted time)…you snooze, you lose. If they don’t archive the materials, and you didn’t get to download them (for whatever reason), what’s your back up plot. In class, you can question for notes from a classmate. Online, most folks have no thought who is taking the class.
Friend options: Try out out the friend options you have to interact with the instructor and/or other students. Some online course systems have group chat sessions, a discussion page where you can post questions/answers. Some instructors salutation e-mail, some don’t. If you are close enough to campus, does the instructor have personnel conference hours? Is it possible to call the instructor by buzz for clarification of assignments or other questions you have in this area the materials.
Submission of work online can have a few potholes as well. When you send an e-mail, most times you don’t know if and when the person got it. So be clear in this area how “deadlines” are set and enforced when it comes time for your to submit your work. For example, you type and send an e-mail to your friend. When they get it…if they aren’t in the same time zone as you…and they answer….can you figure out just so when they sent the message to you? Some ISP time/date stamps originate from really uncommon time zones from mine. It is very much like mailing a bill payment….the due date is 9 Sep…does that mean if it is postmarked by 9 Sep you are on time? or does it mean it is on time when the company can process you payment in their personnel on 9 Sep? Be sure you know how the instructor is determining when submissions are on time or late.
Worst case scenario: you are on your own….the book, the online materials and assignments….and you figure it out yourself. For some, this is student freedom and heaven. For others, a nightmare in the haunted woods of uncertainty.
Payments also vary: some accept credit cards, some don’t. Checks and cash are often used.
Is it worth it? Wow….million dollar questions as the perceived value is uncommon for uncommon folks. If you can figure the numbers simplistically….cost of the course vs pay back in terms of a pay raise or a new job with a higher salary….then it is a simple matter of buy low to get more pay than the course expenditure you. For a more complex equation, factor in a value for your time….time to do the study…as opposed to responsibility something else with your time to 1) earn more money; 2) delight in yourself…but then you need to assign a $ $ value to your repose.
In the end, you establish the feature and value of the education. The teach, instructors, instructional mode…are less significant factors. Some of the greatest minds and some of the most successful people on record were self-educated or were drop outs from teach (if they even went to college).