UoPeople going for regional accreditation

[warriortaupou]

I guess the big deal would be that if they were RA, one could complete UL courses for $120 each, and they could be transferred to other RA programs. Is that what you are thinking?

Right now costs are the $60 application fee, and you have to pass the 8-week Online Education Strategies course ($120). From that point you could take other courses. A lot of the UL courses have lower-level prerequisites. You would have to complete those before moving up. I suppose you could transfer in the lower-level prerequisites if you have them ($17 transfer fee for each).

I don't know if UotP would be a good source of UL transfer credits. Mainly because of the costs (in money, but mostly time) just to get to where you can start taking UL's.

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Another big thing about RA would be:

You have 90 credits (the max that supposedly COULD be transferred in) via other schools, CLEP, ACE-recommended, or whatever. Say you have the 90, or you could get them fast and cheap.

That leaves costs of $60 application, plus $510 credit transfer fees (30 x $17), and 10 courses left to complete at UotP- $1200 (10 x $120). There are some courses that require proctored finals, let's say there are 4, so $100 (4 x $25). Cost is whatever it took to earn 90 credits elsewhere, plus about $1870. There are no textbooks to buy, and there is no graduation fee. It would be an option that would make sense for some.

You can take 2 courses per term, and there are 5 terms in an academic year, so you could do this in a year. Actually, I think you can qualify to take up to 3 courses per term.

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Oh, and you ask if it would be retroactive? There's retroactive RA status as far as credit transfer, and employer recognition of regional versus national versus none, depending on when you were awarded the degree. I have no idea, but I'm sure others here do.

As far as most private-sector employment goes, I imagine you could have earned a degree at UotP before they even had national accreditation, and nearly all employers would see it as whatever it was when you applied for the job.

Sorry...I kept it pretty simple in my statement, but was more interested in UotP becoming an RA vice it's current status as NA. I am thinking of teaching overseas on an small country island (kind of 3rd world) and it requires a minimum of bachelor's in Education...other majors not accepted. They will accept programs from Australia and New Zealand, but I wasn't sure how an NA degree would be accepted. I don't think they know exactly either because I asked earlier today.

I found this under the DoE website, but it's curious how it doesn't show Education on its accredited programs (tried to attach an image, but guess I don't have those permissions):

https://www.deac.org/UploadedDocuments/P...report.pdf

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I guess the big deal would be that if they were RA, one could complete UL courses for $120 each, and they could be transferred to other RA programs. Is that what you are thinking?

Right now costs are the $60 application fee, and you have to pass the 8-week Online Education Strategies course ($120). From that point you could take other courses. A lot of the UL courses have lower-level prerequisites. You would have to complete those before moving up. I suppose you could transfer in the lower-level prerequisites if you have them ($17 transfer fee for each).

I don't know if UotP would be a good source of UL transfer credits. Mainly because of the costs (in money, but mostly time) just to get to where you can start taking UL's.

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Another big thing about RA would be:

You have 90 credits (the max that supposedly COULD be transferred in) via other schools, CLEP, ACE-recommended, or whatever. Say you have the 90, or you could get them fast and cheap.

That leaves costs of $60 application, plus $510 credit transfer fees (30 x $17), and 10 courses left to complete at UotP- $1200 (10 x $120). There are some courses that require proctored finals, let's say there are 4, so $100 (4 x $25). Cost is whatever it took to earn 90 credits elsewhere, plus about $1870. There are no textbooks to buy, and there is no graduation fee. It would be an option that would make sense for some.

You can take 2 courses per term, and there are 5 terms in an academic year, so you could do this in a year. Actually, I think you can qualify to take up to 3 courses per term.

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Oh, and you ask if it would be retroactive? There's retroactive RA status as far as credit transfer, and employer recognition of regional versus national versus none, depending on when you were awarded the degree. I have no idea, but I'm sure others here do.

As far as most private-sector employment goes, I imagine you could have earned a degree at UotP before they even had national accreditation, and nearly all employers would see it as whatever it was when you applied for the job.

Sorry...I kept it pretty simple in my statement, but was more interested in UotP becoming an RA vice it's current status as NA. I am thinking of teaching overseas on an small country island (kind of 3rd world) and it requires a minimum of bachelor's in Education...other majors not accepted. They will accept programs from Australia and New Zealand, but I wasn't sure how an NA degree would be accepted. I don't think they know exactly either because I asked earlier today.

I found this under the DoE website, but it's curious how it doesn't show Education on its accredited programs (tried to attach an image, but guess I don't have those permissions):

https://www.deac.org/UploadedDocuments/P...report.pdf

Ok, I found the attachment button.