Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Military wife registering for online classes... any advice?

I'm a Navy wife and I just recently relocated overseas with my husband. I'm trying to register for online classes here, but I am slightly confused. I spent 2 years at a university in the States, and now I'm trying to finish a degree while on the move with the military. Any advice would be much appreciated!Military wife registering for online classes... any advice?
Do you have a school/program picked out? University of Maryland, University College (www.umuc.edu) has a lot of programs and is very good with military people and people caters to adult learners (lots of senior enlisted and senion officers, even General/Flag officers received their degrees from UMUC). The Navy will have a list of a number of programs that particularly market themselves to people associated with the military, they make sure they are good programs, any of them should be great.





Once you start, here is something you need to know. On-line courses are actually a bit more work than traditional courses. The performance measures are such that they want to see that you are doing the work each week, so it's a bit harder to slack off a week or two, here or there. I think it turns out to be the amount of work that they would ideally expect from a face-to-face course, and when you factor in the convenience it probably turns out that they are about the same amount of work but harder to slack off.





The other big factor is staying motivated, you need to keep yourself motivated, so start out with a course that you are very interested in (the first course I took on-line was International Law/Law of the Sea, it was something I was interested in so it was fun, think fun for your first course).





Good luck!Military wife registering for online classes... any advice?
Ask your husbands or the navy's recruiter. Normally they know a lot about things for people on the move. Also be careful which online colleges you look at. Some aren't real degrees, and won't really matter in the workforce.
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