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Individual Online Credit Courses |
It is possible for every student to take a course via distance education for credit to fulfill a requirement at the education institution where he / she is seeking a degree. It is possible to take the course: 1. at the educational establishment in which he / she is enrolled; 2. at any other regionally accredited college or university. It is possible for students, who already enrolled in a degree program at one of the conventional colleges or universities to take online courses in addition to their main course load. It can be done either during the summer break or intercession. With the help of this students become able to save money and they become farther ahead on their way toward graduation and receiving their degree. As a rule people elect this option for prerequisites, general education requirements or electives. As for the people, who are not enrolled at any higher educational establishment currently, but who are contemplating learning an online degree later, they may take into consideration enrolling in an individual, for credit course. Taking one course online can become quite a good indicator of success in a degree program. With the help of it students will be able to gauge the amount of reading, which is required, become more familiar with the technology, get to know how to budged their time and receive a sense of balancing everyday responsibilities with school. In case if the life experience is a positive one, a person can become encouraged to seek a degree, and in this case it may be possible to apply those credits toward this degree. As for the way of delivering of course materials to the student, it can be done either via “snail mail” (the United States postal mail) or online via the Internet. While receiving their education online, all students have an opportunity to listen to a lecture, read the assigned text and to post their comments to a discussion board, which is monitored by the lecturer. After that students are required to give a respond to at least to other students’ comments. As a rule the lecturer provides his students with links to other resources on the Internet with the aim of maximizing the learning experience. It is also possible to submit all the group projects, examinations and term papers without even leaving home. |