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Online College
I was wanting to start online college sometime in January. I want to be a nurse, but I'm not sure if I can take the basic classes online or if I have to actually be on campus. Can anyone give me as much information as they can about college online? I don't need colleges info, just how it works, what it's like, and how everyone likes it.
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I took some online courses when I went to college. I actually took them through my local community college. It was fairly simple as long as you studied the material. The information is always right in front of you so I don't understand how anyone could fail and online course if they did the work and actually tried.
I would suggest going to your local college and asking them what sort of online courses they offer to students. Tell them that you're planning to become a nurse but was thinking of taking your basics online first. Many colleges offer almost all of the basics online, including English courses. Going through your local college is more helpful because you have a guidance counselor right there at your disposal and may be able to get free tutoring for being a student there.
For me, the college courses online were pretty lame. I took ~5 courses. You will need to purchase the book for the class (always expensive no matter what you do really). The questions are fairly straight-forward and right out of the material for the most part. You'll need to be a little creative when writing so it doesn't sound like you've copied directly from the book, which is very easy to sound like you're doing when it's worded right in the material at hand. You'll submit everything through the online application and they will correspond with you in this matter.
For me, the submission site was just sort of an online log-on website. I had a username and password that I used. My classes would automatically come up and it would show me a list of work I had to submit. The instructor would list what was due when and it was as simple as writing in a box (just like this) and hitting "submit" when finished. When the teacher graded it, I could click that question again and it would tell me my score and if the teacher had left any feedback or comments for me. That was really about it.
It's pretty boring if you aren't good with reading college material by yourself. You don't have anyone to explain it to you if you're confused. You won't have classmates to correspond with really. A lot of the questions are SO straight-forward that it feels like you're not really doing any work at all. Personally, I wish I hadn't taken those online courses because I didn't really get much from the lessons and feel like I wasted my time and money.
I hope it goes well though! See the guidance counselor at your local college and see what they have to offer first!
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