You can’t really blame employers for looking down on online degrees, when there are so many creative cyber-criminals giving online education a bad reputation. In the news today is Marc Parry’s story about the latest cyber-crook to get caught gaming the federal financial aid system.

One Trenda L. Halton, a scammer whose entrepreneurial skills might [...]

A post in 3 parts by Jaemi Sawyer, Guest Blogger. Jaemi is a Marketing Manager in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area. She is currently a student at Franklin Pierce University eCollege.

My goal when I first started this online college adventure was to finish as fast as I could. I just wanted that degree in [...]

A post in 3 parts by Jaemi Sawyer, Guest Blogger. Jaemi is a Marketing Manager in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area. She is currently a student at Franklin Pierce University eCollege.

In my first post, I mentioned that you might find your online program requiring much more personal investment than you’d think. The reason I say [...]

A post in 3 parts by Jaemi Sawyer, Guest Blogger. Jaemi is a Marketing Manager in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area. She is currently a student at Franklin Pierce University eCollege.

My online bachelor’s degree experience: If only I knew then what I know now.

There are so many reasons why people to return to college [...]

I happened upon an interesting story about some state troopers and the trouble they got into because they bought fake degrees online. Here’s the scoop: around a year ago, eight Washington state troopers submitted fake degrees online to their administration in order to receive promotions involving an increase in salary. The troopers suffered the consequences [...]

Few people understand the meaning of lifelong learning better than a veteran does. I can’t speak from experience, but I wonder if it often feels to a soldier as though one’s real education begins not on the first day of basic training, but somewhere in the first tour of duty. It must seem trite to [...]

You can’t see your online classmates, but they’re out there. They’re comfortably dressed, hair tousled, snacks at hand, with their feet on the desk, just like you. However, because you can’t see them doesn’t mean you guys aren’t a real class. In fact your online classmates can be highly valuable to your overall online [...]

For adult learners, going back to school is not as simple as buying a new backpack and getting a good night sleep prior to the first day of class. There are many factors to consider before making the financial and time commitment of pursuing an online college degree.

If you’re an adult learner returning [...]