UoPeople going for regional accreditation

[wow]

... 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. ...

When do you want to start teaching? You could wait to see if UoP gets regional accreditation, for which it has applied. Or you could start there and stretch out your time  in hopes they will be RA before you graduate. That could take 5+ years, and there are no guarantees.

The MEd program was designed in cooperation with the IB (International Baccalaureate), so if the school you are thinking about is an IB school *and* you do very well at UoPeople, the school may be willing to disregard the NA thing. Even so, you might need to figure out somewhere to do student teaching first (though I guess that depends on what country you're talking about). There are some very limited options for doing a practicum while studying at UoPeople (see current catalog), but I wouldn't bet on getting assigned to one.

Or you could get a BA in Ed through WGU, or a BA or MA from American College of Education instead.

(Note: I am doing Foundations courses for the MEd at UoPeople and like it so far, except the peer grading—which I am told gets better once you are out of Foundations and an official candidate, because the people who don't know how to grade tend not to get that far.)