Online College Courses

[Razor]

I was wondering if anyone in here had done any online college courses, preferably A levels and what you thought of them. I am hoping to enroll in A level Physics and A level maths and doing about a good 25hours a week on them.

 

[Garfield_]

There are such a thing called "online courses" in college ?

 

[CptStern]

you should take one of those matchbook correspondence courses ...I'm currently taking a course in Hostage negotiation ....not doing to well ...hostages keep getting killed. Think I'll try "airplane mechanic" next :E

 

[Cons Himself]

Razor perhaps look for some forums more suited to what youre looking for?

and 25 hours for 2 a levs sounds about right to be honest with you. good luck with the a levels - i did the ones youre planning to take back in 2001. good choices!

but its really better to have a teacher especially for such difficult subjects. consider enrolling at local college?

 

[GnaaDXarmy]

I've taken 2-3 undergrad online courses which weren't too bad. I tried to take two Master's level courses (via distance education), which is basically online, and that was a different story ;( . All of these were in Electrical Engineering, so they were a tad more involved than say english, math, etc.

 

[xLostx]

just sign up for any courses you see advertised on TV, everyone in the commericials seems very happy and successfull so you know the commercials just gotta be true

 

[Hazar]

I've taken online courses, they're really easy. You don't have to spend near the amount of time you normally would, but they're easy to forget about

 

[Razor]

The reason i didn't want to go back to college is because the teaching is very strict and i am forced to go at the pace of the teacher, which is usually the same pace as the slowest person in the class and it would take 2 years to do an A level, whereas online, it is only 8 - 10 months max.

 

[Dan]

I didn't go to any classes and learned most of my courses the day before the exam. I then realized that there was never any need to go to class in the first place and I might as well not have payed 500 dollars for all of the lectures and tutorials that I skipped when it was all compacted in a textbook which I borrowed from the library and the internet. I'd assume that the lectures will be more useful for more advanced classes.

 

[kirovman]

The reason i didn't want to go back to college is because the teaching is very strict and i am forced to go at the pace of the teacher, which is usually the same pace as the slowest person in the class and it would take 2 years to do an A level, whereas online, it is only 8 - 10 months max.

If that's the case you may want to consider doing a further maths a-level the year after...just a suggestion.

Maths A-Level is tough, Physics is pretty easy. I got an A in both, but the Maths was a lot more work. Lucky I had special revision guides, which narrow everything down into a few pages, with lots of examples to follow.