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victornil May 7th, 2008 3:30 pm
Online education?
 
Hi,
I want to do B.A through Online Please give me some information about the university who provide online education in Bachelor Degree.

Ancient Dragon May 7th, 2008 3:44 pm
Re: Online education?
 
just google for them -- you can even buy degrees without taking one course :)

hammerhead May 8th, 2008 5:47 pm
Re: Online education?
 
^What :O? Is that not illegal? Are they even of any value?

Ezzaral May 8th, 2008 6:31 pm
Re: Online education?
 
Some might say they are worth just as much as most online degrees.

jwenting May 9th, 2008 12:25 am
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Quote:

Originally Posted by hammerhead (Post 603044)
^What :O? Is that not illegal? Are they even of any value?



in many countries it is illegal. And in many others it is not itself illegal but using the "diplomas" handed out by them as proof of education is illegal.

dante23x May 9th, 2008 2:43 pm
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Quote:

Originally Posted by Ezzaral (Post 603068)
Some might say they are worth just as much as most online degrees.



That is just a stupid thing to say. Certainly there are diploma mills out there, but I don't think there is anything wrong with an online degree as long is it comes from an accredited college.

jwenting May 9th, 2008 2:49 pm
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most "online degrees" however come from no credible source.
And oh, just because something is "accredited" doesn't mean it's any good.
They could just be telling a little sweet lie about it, or have gotten it from some source that's less than strict about whom they grant their accredition to as long as the price is right.

In fact almost all diploma mills have some accredition or other.

Ezzaral May 9th, 2008 3:13 pm
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Quote:

Originally Posted by dante23x (Post 603707)
That is just a stupid thing to say. Certainly there are diploma mills out there, but I don't think there is anything wrong with an online degree as long is it comes from an accredited college.


And you'll note that I did not state unequivocally all online degrees are useless. But the fact that you "don't think there is anything wrong" with an online degree is obviously grounded in well-researched reality and therefore proves it to be "stupid".

Though perceptions are slowly changing, are you really denying that many people, including employers, do not view an online degree in a lesser light than a brick-and-mortar institution degree? While my comment was made somewhat tongue-in-cheek, it's not exactly an uncommon perception that online degrees are somewhat suspect in their value.

I'm sure that will disappear overnight though, now that you have decided you think it's stupid.

JobMatchNow May 9th, 2008 4:57 pm
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Does online education show a higher rate of success then learning done in the classroom?

Salem May 10th, 2008 12:36 am
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Online course = creative sob stories on online forums + google + copy/paste.

Sure, some of them may actually make a decent effort to produce a quality student who may actually know something for themselves at the end of it.

But others only care about counting the money, and giving high pass rates so it looks good in their advertising blurb. We "guarantee" a pass is a sure sign of the latter.

As I've said before, your "diploma" might help get you to the job interview, may even help get the job, but if you or the course provider are a sham, keeping said job will be a hell of a lot harder. After being booted out of a few jobs after a few months, your CV is going to be one sorry-assed disaster area and finding another job will be really hard.


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