College.

[ChandieLee]

I'm thinking about doing College online...


Has anyone taken online courses? Do you think just going to college is a better idea?

 

[Greta]

I've taken a couple online classes, and here's what I decided:
Online classes are great for things that aren't exceedingly difficultor frustrating, and things that aren't really hard, ane you maybearen't thrilled about that may just be prerequisites or corequisitesthat you have to get out of the way.

However, in my experience, being in a real-live classroomwith other students can be very helpful, especially with things likemath and biology, as you can talk with the other students, hear theirquestions and the instructor's answers to them, and sometimes that canjust help something make sense to you that wouldn't otherwise.

Anyway, there's my $.02, it may be completely different for you, but ya never know until you try.

 

[Haley]

I go to University of Michigan but I take a lotof online classes. They are nice for your schedule, but a lot of work.Ive found that you get a lot of busy work that you wouldnt get in class.

These online degrees make me a little nervous. Some donttransfer etc.I would see about going through a localcollege/university and just trying to take as many as you can online.

Good luck in your decision!

 

[ChandieLee]

The Online courses I'm thinking of taking areactually through the Community College in my city. It's not one ofthose that you see ads for all over the internet. :? Those ones seemskinda weird.
I'm just kinda looking into the Online courses, instead of a classroom,because I never really liked the large classes (20-30 people *shudder*)

Question: (I seem to have alot of those) In College, do Professorsrandomly call on people for answers, or do they call on people who aremore likely to raise their hands? I ask because whenever I'vebeen randomly called on, I get nervous and lose my answer and look likean idiot.:shock:
I suppose I'm not the only one, but you never know.

 

[Dwarf_Angel04]

I actually taking a break from my online college work to reply to this post.

Personally, I love online courses but dread it when I have to take afull load online which I'm doing right now. I go to work and literallycome home and work on course assignments.

Some courses are more work then others and some require you to attendthe campus to take an exam. I've even had courses where the textbook isthrown at you withtest dates and that's all. Those are thecourses that are difficult.

If you decide to do online courses, take just one to start off with toget the hang of the idea. The first few days of my courses, I print outevery syllabus and lesson for each course and stick it all in a binder.Right now all my printouts are in a 2 inch ring binder that's WAY tosmall for the amount of pages it currently holds. Then I make a masterschedule color coded with all the due dates for the quarter with a spotto write what day I completed the assignment.

You need to be able to pace yourself and not procrasinate as you areworking with full force technology and sometimes the college website oryour ISP could be experiencing difficulities.

All in all, I love online courses as I'm not want to sit in a classroomwith other students. I'd rather communicate with them through theemails and discussion boards.

Amanda

 

[Flashy]

I'm doing an online course, but obviously mine is in the UK.

It's a post grad diploma in psych, and I have yet to start it, but I'mlooking forward to it. I'm also about to start an online theroreticalcounselling course.

Online courses can be good for a lot of reasons, like fitting them inaround your current life, etc, providing a wide choice of options, butequally, there arepros to actually going to college.

There is no right nor wrong answer it is just what feels better for you at the time.

Good luck

 

[aurora369]

20-30 people is a large class?? LOL, just have to giggle at that because alot of my classes get up to 300 students...

I like online courses for subjects that I feel comfortablein. I've done some Communications courses (basically writingfor business) online, and that was pretty good. ButI couldn't see myself taking something like calculus online.

If you have a good work ethic and are able to sit yourself down andread the text book and do additional work with out guidance, thenonline courses will be a breeze. But if you don't, and try toleave everything till just before you have to hand an assignment in orwrite an exam, it will be very difficult.

My experience in College/University courses is that they are muchdifferent than high school. A lot of professors will justlecture and won't stop unless someone asks a question. Theysee it as the students responsability to do practice problems outsideof class and they focus their lectures on deriving and background notdoing problems.

Community College may be a bit different though. I think it'ssomething you'd have to try before you could tell if you likeit. Each school and each professor is different.

--Dawn

 

[ChandieLee]

300 students... wow... Is that for a normal classroom setting, or in a lecture hall?
Either way, it's not something I'd be comfortable with. I came from avery small high school, and each classroom had roughly ten students.

Before I make any decision, however, I requested information abouttheir online courses, financial aid, etc. I'll be looking over all ofit with my dad, and we'll see if it would benefit me.

Thanks for all your input!!!