I don’t care about school location, size, dorms, etc.

I am looking for an online college that …
-participates in the AU-ABC program
-has accelerated degree program (5-6 week courses)
-offers a Bachelor degree in something close to Information Systems Technology

Please Help!

The most I can tell you is to stay away from for-profit proprietary schools such as University of Phoenix.

Their classes are overpriced and their credits and degrees carry no respect.

Broadcast spot, Metropolitan College, Charlotte, NC. Metropolitan College offers undergraduate adult degree programs that enhance opportunities for career advancement and success. Metropolitan College provides flexible, convenient schedules that work for busy adults. The campus is an easy commute from home and work. Class options include evenings, online, daytime, and weekend options. Gain your EDGE(sm) with an undergraduate degree from Metropolitan College. Metropolitan College, Knowledge That Counts (sm).

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For many people, the mention of college brings to mind vivid images of ivy-covered brick buildings set amongst spacious green lawns; swarming throngs of students walking along paths beneath canopies of ancient shade trees; bearded professors lecturing in large student-filled halls; blackboards covered with cryptic mathematical symbols, and perhaps countless other vignettes of college life. While these scenes are a reality for some students, for others college life is much different. The advent of the internet in recent years has opened up a whole new way for students to attend college and earn their degrees online, often without ever having to darken a college classroom door.

Online accredited courses–also known as distance learning and e-learning courses–enable working adults with established careers and personal lives to gain additional education for things such as career advancement, professional certification, self improvement, or even simple pleasure. Online courses offer students tremendous flexibility in being able to study at a time and place that best fits into their busy schedules.

With just a little research on the internet you will find a huge offering of online accredited courses from hundreds of colleges, universities, vocational and trade schools. Nearly all universities offer at least a few online courses if not complete degree programs online. A student can take e-learning classes in nearly every discipline and branch of study, and earn degrees ranging all the way from high school diplomas to doctorates.

Barely more than a decade ago, few people could foresee the day when students could take a class from their living room with nothing more than a lap top computer connected to the internet. That day has arrived, and opened the doors of education to millions of students worldwide. Only in a day of revolutionary technological innovation could someone find such a convenience as online classes.

Whether you’ve already attained a college degree and are looking to further your education, or you’ve never gone to college but would like to get your college degree or high school diploma, online accredited courses may be the key that unlocks the door to your goals. With the popularity of distance learning education continuing to grow by leaps and bounds each year, the day may come when the traditional college experience is more of a memory than a reality. Just as few could predict the rise in online learning, who can really know what the future holds for education.

Jesse Whitehead
http://www.articlesbase.com/online-education-articles/are-online-accredited-courses-a-good-educational-choice-95604.html

The panelists highlight the importance of continuing communication with peers and family during the entire deployment process.

Capella University, an accredited online university that has built its reputation by providing high quality online degree programs for working adults, hosted a special screening and town hall discussion of the award-winning PBS documentary “The Next Mission” with leaders from the military and mental health communities. The discussion was held to advance the public conversation about the mental health issues facing returning servicemembers, veterans, and their families.

Capella developed a web site and forum to capture ideas and suggestions for servicemembers returning from combat. Share your own ideas and read the thoughts of other contributors at www.joiningforcesamerica.org

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I would deeply appreciate any knowledge that can be supplied to me. I quit my Master’s degree program when a book of my poetry was accepted for publication through a university press. The book had been my early creative writing thesis. I would like to find a means of rectifying my errors and returning to my studies. Although American I don’t think I can get student loans but if there are scholarships, grants, or rather cheap online classes for an internationally recognized degree this information would mean a lot to me. Steven Sills
Assumption University
ABAC Condo Building 136 Apartment 225
Bangkok, Thailand
Telephone: 06-814-0347

Objective: American poet and literary novelist with 12 years of teaching experience formerly employed at Assumption University in Bangkok Thailand as a grammar and writing teacher for 5 years. I am knowledgeable about literature and grammar; and for the past two years have taught writing classes
Email address: s_sills.geo@yahoo.com or poetinasia@yahoo.com

Publications: An American Papyrus, New Poets Series Towson State University Baltimore Maryland 1990 (in over a hundred libraries in the United States-most of which are university libraries including Yale University Library and Princeton University Library); digital library text through Project Gutenberg, University of North Carolina
Corpus of a Siam Mosquito digital library text through Project Gutenberg, University of North Carolina
Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America digital library text through Project Gutenberg, University of North Carolina
Cataloguing of digital texts: Online Books, University of Pennsylvania; Project Gutenberg, University of North Carolina/University of Illinois; Internet Public Library, University of Wisconsin; and the Internet Archive (www.archive.org)
See: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=5176
And http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=4545

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=12733

Books and reviews published by the Philadelphia Inquirer Blog (editor being the Philadelphia Inquirer Book Review editor)

Education: Graduate credit hours in English at Southwest Missouri State University. Creative writing thesis published as An American Papyrus
B.A. (double major in history and English) at Southwest Missouri State University

Recent job experience:
*English First, giving business and Toefl classes. For one semester I worked at a public high school developing tests, quizzes, and handouts for writing and grammar classes
*Assumption University June 2001-2006
teaching sophomores composition classes and freshmen applied grammar
*Siam University 1998-2001 -taught English1-4 and a psychology class one semester
*TOEFL classes part time at ECC and Siriaj Hospital
*Have taught from ages 5- adults
*Have taught in universities, elementary schools, technical colleges, hospitals, businesses, and language schools
*Have taught in Japan, South Korea, Mexico, and Thailand

+ It seem that the online degrees are the fastest and least expensive. I was one of the founders of ACETI years ago.
Phoenix seems to be the largest.
Good Luck

Many busy adults take online courses to make it more convenient for them to upgrade their degrees or earn degrees in new fields. However, to take advantage of this, one must be confident enough in his/her computer skills in order to be able to complete the online courses and earn one’s degree online.

For some, especially those who work on computers in their current occupations, that likely isn’t a problem, as they will likely already have experience with programs they will use in their online courses. On the other hand, those who don’t use computers much or at all in their current occupations, may have a steeper learning curve in regards to working with the software that is necessary to successfully pass online courses.

People wishing to pursue a degree via online education should be familiar with word processing software like Microsoft Word, spreadsheet software like Microsoft Excel, and presentation software like Microsoft PowerPoint, since it is possible you will have to create documents, spreadsheets, and/or presentations that you will need to send to your professor via email or have to upload to a site from which your professor will download it.

Therefore, you should also be familiar with your email software program, like Microsoft Outlook or a web-based email provider like Hotmail, Yahoo, and/or GMail, as well as knowing how to upload and download files, since you’re not going to be able to write your answers on notebook paper or print out pages from your printer in order to give to your professor, nor will he/she give you papers with your assignments on them since you likely will not meet him/her in person during the course. So knowing how to email and upload/download files will be essential for you to complete online courses.

Often, your professor will provide video and/or audio lectures for you as part of your course material. As a result, you should be familiar with whatever software is required to access these lectures, whether it would be RealPlayer, Quicktime, Windows Media Player, or the University’s own software program. Familiarize yourself with the controls so you can playback the lectures easily and can concentrate on the information given in the lectures, not on how to work the software.

It is certainly possible that your course material will require you to conduct some searches for additional information, so you should be familiar with the Google search engine at least, if not others like Yahoo, AskJeeves, MSN, etc. Know how to search for information on various topics by knowing what keywords, or words that signify what topic you are looking for, to input into the box.

At times, computers and software programs won’t function like they are supposed to, resulting in error messages and complications. The more experience you have with computers, the more likely you’ll be able to solve these problems on your own. However, should you get stuck, contact your professor and/or classmates and see if they can assist you. Let them know right away that you are having trouble and can’t solve it so that you don’t fall behind in your classes, because once you fall behind on the material, it is very difficult to catch up, especially if you are uncomfortable using computers to begin with.

Many people nowadays look toward online courses to help them obtain their degrees faster, but one must be prepared to work with the software that is required to complete these online courses in order for them to receive that added benefit of gaining their degrees faster.

Bryan Wong
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