Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Online Courses?

I need to catch up on Credits. Can you help me find some websites where i can take Courses online please? I live in Kansas. Preferablly for it to be Reasonable. We do not have alot of money. My counselor said their is an Online course program from Chicago that is good can you help me find it and some others? Thank you! Oh preferablly ones that i can sign up for now. My counselor said i can look up online courses and he will decided weather they will count or not. Thanks!

Online Courses?
Look into enrolling in one of the Kansas virtual schools such as Lawrence Virtual School. They are statewide, as are some other virtual schools. Since they are public schools, it is "free" other than the typical school fees.





Below are some online high schools where you can get credits. They run about $350/course/semester and up. No online high school courses are going to be very cheap. If they are, they aren't worth it, or something's wrong - like a diploma mill.





Apex:


http://www.apexlearning.com/





K12 (uses some Apex courses and some of their own):


http://www.k12.com/hsc/flash/





Florida Virtual School:


http://www.flvs.net/





NorthStar Academy:


http://www.northstar-academy.org/......





UNL Independent Study High School:


http://nebraskahs.unl.edu/index.shtml......





Center for Distance and Independent Study:


http://cdis.missouri.edu/
Reply:The NEA provided a guide to how to choose the best on-line courses; it's pretty lengthy, but you'll want to use it to evaluate the programs you choose. Without this, you could have difficulties having them count outside of your high school as real coursework (even if your high school signs off on them). Here is a link to the guide: http://www.nea.org/technology/onlinecour...





Keystone high school looks like a good one, though it could be fairly spendy. You can enroll immediately (you may have to forward transcripts), but the cost is about $300 for one course. Here's a link: http://www.keystonehighschool.com/





http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/Distance_... lists a wide variety of different schools that you could look at to see what fits your situation best.





A lot of colleges offer courses on-line, too, and you may find some more interesting courses offered there. You might be able to get your counselor to accept a pass/fail grade there; you won't be paying the college directly for credits in this situation, so it will probably be cheaper.


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