Online Education

I spent two years researching online universities. It was difficult to find out if the schools were accredited, and in many cases, the degree is worthless in some industries. For example, if you want to teach English in China, they will not recognize online degree.

It is important to learn whether the online school is accredited by the same organization that brick-and-mortar universities are accredited at. It is also important to learn whether the individual courses are accredited. An accredited school can teach non-accredited courses - and they don't need to tell the students.

Online education becomes confusing when you try to figure out whether the degree is recognized in a different country. Even a large number of brick-and-mortar colleges and universities have degrees that are worthless in another country.

I ran about 15 school's BA course through the Canadian teacher's college to see if they would accept the degrees for admittance. Not one passed. Of course, there are many Ontario colleges that have such low standards they never qualified either. It makes you wonder what you are paying for.

This explained why so many university grads remain unemployed. When I was younger, if you had a degree, then you had a degree. If you had a PHD you always had a PHD - it is not true now. In fact, the educational institution can challenge a PHD, and remove it, if they believe you are not living up to their standards. You would have to ask the university whether this applies to their distance learning phd