I haven't taken a class in over 2 years. I only need 12 credits of General Ed classes to complete my cheezy Air Force degree. I need to finish it in the next year to check a box and be competitive for my next stripe. I start Freshman Rhetoric on Tuesday with Brandman. They do this new blended technique which is a cross between classroom and online work. I've never done any sort of online school. I was just on the class site browsing around and it looks like a lot of the assignments are posts and responses on a "discussion board." I'm hoping my thousands of hours and posts on various forums help me out. Do we have anyone with lots of online course experience on here? My biggest issue is going to be finding the time and motivation to do the work. I have lots of respect for anyone who got a degree while working full time. Wish me luck.

Get after it! It took me forever to get around to finishing my CCAF degree, but I'm glad I did. I ended up in a Special Duty that gave me another CCAF degree and I went back to finish my undergrad with ERAU. I ended up doing online only and I really like it. I've probably done 20 classes online, maybe more. I have 11 classes left for the degree, but it's been over a year now since no more TA to pay for classes due to my temporary retirement. I'm kind of holding off on using my GI Bill in case they put me back on active duty, then I can use TA to finish it. I wish I'd have worked harder to finish before this all happened, I've missed out on some great jobs simply because I didn't have an undergrad degree. The two CCAF degrees don't mean anything other than a bullet and stratification for Senior and Chief boards...

Lots of colleges and universities now offer many, many classes online, especially general ed classes, but also some others. Do some looking around at various universities and you'll find a lot of online offerings, including MS. Online learning requires a lot of discipline, but really no more than a regular sit down class. The difference is a sit down class sort of forces you to complete assignments a bit at a time, whereas many online classes allow procrastinators to wait till the last minute to do all the work.

Keep up with the reading and the assignments and you'll do just as well as you would in a classroom.

MTV

AvidFlyer wrote: My biggest issue is going to be finding the time and motivation to do the work. I have lots of respect for anyone who got a degree while working full time. Wish me luck.

Both my daughters held jobs earning four year degrees at brick and mortar universities working thirty to forty hours per week. One was Magna Cum Laude and one Suma. Then my wife went back and got a teaching certificate and ten years later went back again and got a nursing degree while still raising a family. What it takes is someone with organizational skills and being able to prioritize the tasks and time alloted to them. It worked for them. .... Me? Hell No!