Bottom line is that I need one "pre-calculus" course to fulfill a requirement for my career.

I've never taken a course online. I've never even considered it until now. Can anyone who has taken online college please chime in and explain how it works?

How does the self pace and regular courses differ as far as credits?

Can anyone suggest a good online college that you have used and also any "pre-calculus" level courses that I should take a look at?

I need to knock this out within the next year.

Thanks in advance.

Tim

 

I took a bunch of online classes at Northern Arizona University where I went to school. Seemed like there were several different kinds. Some required certain things to be done by certain dates but you could finish the entire course the first week of the semester. Others required things to be done by certain dates, and only became available as the semester went on. Still others were completely open, you did what you wanted to do when, as long as they were done by the last day of the semester.

I dropped one class that was an elective because it was too demanding. The semester started on a Tuesday, I had three normal classes so I didn't log in until the next day. I already had a notificiation from the professor saying it was evident I wasn't committed to the class (required insane amounts of work, two journal entries, minimum 3 pages each, one quiz, one test, six discussion forum threads; three had to be ones you start and three had to be in threads other people started; that was the bare minimum required each week, some weeks had multiple tests plus the major paper of the class was roughly 20 pages) and the highest grade I get pull off would be a C. The class wasn't even 24 hours old and he had already docked 25% of the total grade. See ya.

Others were great. I personally like learning that way, I learn well reading on my own and applying it rather than sit hours in a classroom while someone reads to me. Just make very sure on when things are due. My final semester I had a class where it was all due at the end, I thought it was Friday of finals week. I checked Monday afternoon only to find out everything was due Monday at midnight. Between writing two other final papers for other classes I wrote 15 of the 16 required papers (they were 1-2 pages each) in about 7 hours, chainsmoking cigarettes at my desk as my roommates kept bringing me coffee. I got a B. Did the math on that...if I could pull that off for a few months it'd be a full four year degree. If you couldn't tell, my degree is in journalism. No tests, all papers.

 

Wow...congrats.

I'm looking for anyone who has done a MATH course online. What happens when you get stuck? What happens when you don't know WTF? How do you get your work done.

I just don't get this whole online course stuff.

 

Does it have to be online? Go the a Community College or something. I'd guess they have pre-calculus courses.

Also: If you're worried about not knowing WTF you're doing, get Calculus for Dummies. It's pretty easy to follow and EXPLAINS what calculus is and what it is for. That was my biggest hurdle in most classes. If I didn't know the reason for the material, good luck getting me to follow.