With the presence of a lot of education online opportunities for students, it is also very difficult to identify which of the online schools are legitimate or illegitimate. Parents should be extra careful if they wish to enroll their students online.
There is now the so-called “diploma mills” or illegitimate online schools victimizing unsuspecting students and parents. According to e-learners.com Diploma mills pose online as genuine universities offering online education. This situation has already alarmed many students and parents in the US.
When George Bush signed into law the “College Opportunity and Affordability Act” on August 14,2008, he also created the Diploma Mills Task Force to monitor and eradicate unscrupulous people selling fake degrees online.
Terrence Thomas, EducationDynamics EVP for marketing and operations said these people only want to victimize unsuspecting students and they don’t care if their victims get the education online they deserve.
He advised online enrollees to be watchful when enrolling career education online so that they would not victimized. They should also see to it they have selected the legit education online program.
Meanwhile, the elearners.com has also offered some tips to help students find the legit online education schools they won’t regret later.
University research – It has been reported that diploma mill schools are using similar names top popular universities and colleges to lure their victims into enrolling because the name of the school is known. These illegitimate schools also register their website using the .edu name. The best thing to be safe is to identify whether the school is accredited by a recognized accrediting agency.
1. Check history address – It is also very important to check the address of the school. Usually, a fake school always changes its address and also moves from one place to another.
2. Quick degrees warning – be warned also of schools offering quick degrees as they maybe also a diploma mill school.
3. Watch for the admission process – if you cannot find test scores or selectivity in the process of admission you should start doubting the school.
4. Vague requirements for degree courses – if they don’t outline their degree requirements it must be ground for suspicion already.
5. Tuition and Fees – Legitimate online education schools, according to elearners.com usually charge tuition on a per class basis and diploma mills on per degree program.
Prominent companies in Wisconsin are supporting the online education and IT career programs of Madison. In fact, they have already a listing of the 80 available internship programs as part of the online career matching program.
It had been noted that online learning system provides a good venue for learners who will be pursuing their higher educational learning or career education. In which, those individuals who aspire to forego their higher education or any career course program but at the same time got several obligations in life such as being a fulltime employed in a certain company. In that case, online learning system had seen as a good venue for several individuals to utilize their time, money and efforts as they continue in foregoing their higher educational learning. No wonder that there are several online schools that have established here in the United States. As of now, online learning system does not only cater the needs of learners who will be pursuing a higher career education but as well to high school learners. Just recently, a new online network have launched a program that would help the high school students deepen their understanding about essential subjects and better prepare the its learners for college education through the video-based courses. Since, it’s been its totally been designed and taught of the expert teachers across the country.
Here in the United States, one of current major concern the country’s facing is in the field of education where in shortage of its educators or teachers were been experience. So far, the Department of Education officials got already a solution on it through the internet system. In which, the online education system of World Wide Web can become the answer in easing up the pressure of the overcrowded classroom of the campus based schools. Aside of that also, this online education or virtual schools that have been established in the internet also serve in reducing the need to spend millions of dollars in order to build several and larger educational learning institutes especially for public schools. Since, there are several individuals in the country who can’t afford the educational expenditures that the private educational learning institute entails. As a result, most learners in the country will usually continue their educational learning to the public learning institutes or virtual schools especially in forgoing higher educational learning.