Will graduate schools in the United States and abroad accept an online college degree

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2. How can I determine if schools in other countries/continents like Canada, Europe, and Asia will accept these degrees?

1) Check legal requirements for the types of degrees needed to get work or student visas.
2) Find several foreign schools in the country you are interested in, and check their admissions requirements.
3) Find government job advertisements in the country you're interested in, and check their degree requirements.

In smaller countries, you go to schools based on the subject you want to study and not the reputation - for example there may be only 1 school in the entire country that teaches 3D graphics so you have no choice but to go to that one. For that reason, in many countries the subject studied is far more important than the school it was studied at.

Even when you go to a highly ranked school in your country, that can be seen like dirt or be totally unknown in another country. As an example, Karolinska is, to Swedish people, seen as the best medical school in all of Europe. But how many Americans have even heard of it? Now say the opposite, and you go to the best medical school in America. American healthcare and medicine, as an entire industry, is seen as worse than the Swedish one overall, so you going to the "best" school in America may not help as much as you think. In a foreign country you are most likely not going to get accepted specifically because you went to Harvard, you will get accepted because you went to "a school" and have "a degree in the required prerequisite subject". In some countries the school you apply to itself does not even actually look at your application, all school admissions decisions are outsourced to a national service and the schools themselves are just in charge of running the classes and reporting your registrations/credits/grades to the national service.

Some people think GPA is the most important, but again that depends. In Sweden sometimes your high school grades matter more than your university grades (or are equal weight to your university grades) in the admissions process, even if you have finished university degrees. At the same time, in Sweden I have never been denied registration to a class due to poor grades - I have only ever been denied because I did a late registration and spots were full.