My son is currently enrolled at Park City Independent Online High School, Fully Accredited | Park City Independent where he is earning his High School diploma at his own pace. He is going to finish WAY early, when he is about 14 years old. After that we want to start on the path of getting a bachelors degree as quickly as we can. He has a goal to have his Masters degree by the time he is 18.

It looks like TESC has a minimum age of 21. Do you think they would accept a 14 year old?
I also see that COSC has a minumum age of 16, I am not sure if they do waivers or not.
EC is the only one that I don't see a minimum age for.

He is REALLY nervous about CLEP tests and wants to go mainly with Straighterline and other independent self-paced courses (LSU, BYU, etc...) to fill up his credits. Do you have ANY advice for us?

Online courses are delivered using what is called a Learning Management System (LMS) or Course Management System (CMS). Common LMSs are:

Angel
Blackboard
Epic
Moodle
Sakai
WebCT

What some of these systems can do is provide a calendar to the student. In my experience, the calendar is per course. In Moodle, it is possible for the student to see a single calendar with due dates for all courses. However, this requires the instructor to actually make use of the calendar features. At brick and mortar schools, most instructors are too lazy to enter dates into the LMS calendar. Each student is expected to read the syllabus and create his/her own calendar. Instead of one person (instructor or instructor's graduate student) being organized, 100 people (the students) are expected to duplicate each other's efforts.

Some academicians don't feel it is their job to populate the electronic calendar. This is in contrast to the corporate world where the manager (i.e., instructor) is solely responsible for using electronic calendaring to get the meeting (i.e., test, essay due date, etc.) out in a shareable format.

Even though I've seen LMSs provide a single, consolidated calendar view, I haven't seen an LMS calendar exportable so that it can be imported into Outlook, Google, or an iPhone.

What schools do an outstanding job of using electronic calendaring? Do any of the for profit schools have a high-tech, fully electronic calendar? Do you know of any brick and mortar schools that use electronic calendaring to its fullest? Is there any LMS with a first class calendar that can be exported to other devices?

Did you know that Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country?
England was mighty pissed off that the colonies created a corporation. Corporations are built by ordinary people, not the power elite, the nobility, kings, queens, or politicians.

I took english comp 2 on SL which was all about Frankenstein, but then found out that TESC didnt accept my english comp 1 taken at the local community college. Do I need the book for English comp 1? It looks like a typical writing format guide which I am pretty comfortable with. Anyway, does SL ask questions about this book? or will they provide me the material I need to analyze/format etc.

Its not a pricey book, but from the reviews on Amazon it doesnt seem very good at all...

Thanks

I am taking my first CLEP test ever, on Human Growth and Dev. Looking for any help at all. Thanks in advance.

I noticed on the Straighterline website that Excelsor is a partner college. They showed a list of courses and how they transfer to Excelsor. However, none of the history courses were on that list. Does that mean Excelsor will not accept the history courses from Straighterline? I am not yet enrolled with EC because I wanted to amass some ACE credits before I started paying the fees for the school.

I want to get my Associates In Science in Technology with area of focus in Electromechanical Technologies , how would I go about starting this . I'm active duty military out of Norfolk VA. I want to CLEP out of all that I can . Please if anyone has an Idea . Post Post Post Thanks in advance

I am planning to take the DANTE test Human/Cultural Geography and do not see the flash card/study guide on the Instant Cert website. Do you know if it is listed under a different name? Or do they not offer a study guide for this exam?

I have the opportunity to take a pre-interview test that might lead to an interview. It is for a Computer Technician I position for a medium sized city. What are some of the questions that I would expect to be on this test? I have researched some of the possible general knowledge questions. Also, I have found some basic IT questions. Will there be other IT-related questions that I could expect on this test?

Thank you!

Hi All
It has been a while since my last post. This board was a great help to me when I was finishing my AAS Safety and Security at TESC. I decided to look at COSC for my BS. I need some advice on choosing a concentration. COSC is in the process for evaluating my credits for BS Organizational leadership. I am looking for the quickest and cheapest way to finish. Hopefully I can test out of almost everything except Corner and Capstone. I am trying to figure out if Public Safety, CJ or Liberal Arts may be a quicker route.
One of my main concerns is lack of UL credits. The Organizational Leadership Clep/DSST tests needed would be fairly easy, but for UL credit I would need the ECE equivalents. How much harder are they?
I am switching to COSC because of the cost. The COSC payment plan is a big help. What do you think the quickest easiest path to a degree may be for me?
Below is basically the credits I have so far.
Fema – 30 credits
Aleks – INT Algebra, College Algebra, Pre-Calc, Intro Statistics,
Clep/ DSST – College Comp, A & I Lit, Intro Computers
Arrts transcript – 12 credits Geography, Keyboarding etc.
SL – Bus Comm
Other credits - Bio, Bus Law II, Drama, Soc, History, Civil Procedure,
Any feedback you may have will really help.