Online Classes taken seriously by other colleges and possible employers?

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Hello all. Currently I am taking my pre-reqs at my local community college. I remember a while back in my English Comp II class my intructor and another student got into an argument over the credibility of online classes. Generally, I have never given them serious thought and most of my instructor's and other I have talked to seem to think of them as some kind of joke.

But then I kind of began to think. It would be really convenient for me if I completed my pre-reqs for classes like Chem and A&P online. What do you all think? Should I stick to my local community college or try online?

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Oncology, telemetry/stepdown.

Online courses are often more demanding since you are basically teaching yourself, and deadlines for work are very strict, but I love taking classes online...I am knocking out my last 3 co-requisites this summer, and I love being able to work at my own pace. I've never gotten the impression that people don't take them seriously, after all they require a lot of self control and hard work...good luck.:nuke:

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Specializes in Cardiac Care.

I am taking all of my pre-req's online and the Community Colleges around here offer many online courses. Including an Accelerated A&PII. So with having to work full time it really does make all of this possible now

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I have taken several courses online as well as on campus. And on my transcripts there is no way to tell which were taken online, so unless you tell it doesn't make a difference. In my expereience online courses cover the same material as a traditional class but leave room for more flexibility.

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I am currently taking 18 hours on-line. Like others have said, if anything, it is much harder than a traditonal classroom. You have to teach yourself, and stick to deadlines. Also, there is really no way a school can see on your transcript if the class was taken on-line or not.

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Thank You for your help. Here is the deal. I am 57 and would like to get my RN. I am very confused about the best online schools.

How hirable will I be if employers see I completed TCN. I have no way of knowing,they do not ask for chem and math. Will this pose a problem with the boards. Has anyone completed TCN and had success. Please help I have been an LPN for 34yrs with great experience.

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There are more and more online classes nowadays, and although I myself am skeptical, I'm finding more and more that are acceptable. I'm a pre-nursing student at a community college, and since I had no credits before registering for classes, I was last on the list, but every single class I am taking was offered online. And even being in last group to register, three of my four current prereq's are online, one requiring a one-hour class per week, but it's algebra, so I'm glad for the one hour a week in class!

Point is, more and more accredited schools are doing it, but I do know if you want to transfer to a university, for your BSN for example, and all are different, but every one I've checked so far requires you get 25% of your education on campus.

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One more thing, when looking at on-line or even some private schools, watch the word "accredited" and find out who exactly accredits them. One RN college I looked at was "accredited" and in their case what that meant was not one single credit would have been transferrable to a university for a BSN. I would have learned info for the RN exam, but that's it.

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I am doing some pre-requisites for a top school and they have recommended on line classes.

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Specializes in long-term-care, LTAC, PCU.

I think in this day and age online classes are so popular that employers are accepting them just the same as any other class. I have taken a few and thought that they were awesome! I love being able to work when it's convienient for me.

I also agree with the other posters who have said that there is no way for an employer to know if a class is online. I plan on getting my BSN completely online from a local university.

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Yeah, one RN-BSN school I talked to so far said not only is it the same curriculum as their on-campus program, the transcript is says nothing about which you did. (Sorry if that's redundant, can't remember if I already posted that in this forum, it's Florida Hospital by the way.) I'm planning on doing my BSN online as well; there are no universities where I live, and I already have to move my family once when I go for CRNA.

My community college offers almost every single prereq/coreq online for their ADN, course they were all full by the time I had priority registration as a new student, but next semester I can get almost all of them since 75% of mine are on campus this semester -- just remember if you are in community college all their transfer contracts to universities to go on for BSN without needing any extra credits say you have to do 25% of your program on campus, but then again, all the nursing classes are on campus except 2 at my school and clinicals would be considered on campus, so I may be wrong in thinking I have to do 25% of my prereq's/coreq's on campus.

And with gas the way it is, after working at home for years, and now having to go to the campus, drop kids of at school and daycare 5 days a week, I'm freakin' cause I never had a gas bill before. Online's gonna save my butt next semester.

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