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Should You Trust Your Online School Financial Aid and Student Loan Officer?
Online College Financial Aid  >  Online College Student Loans
By GetEducated.com Consumer Reporting Team   
 
It’s normal to approach online student loans with trepidation. Getting financial aid for an online degree program is tricky, and recent college student loan scams and scandals have made many adult and online students even more nervous.
Learn more about online school financial aid officers...
 
Will My Online School Credits as a Military Student Transfer?
Military Distance Education  >  Distance Learning for Active Duty Army Soldiers
By GetEducated Consumer Reporting Team   
 
Regional accreditation, rather than national, is more widely accepted
Military students who have completed distance learning college courses or in-service training may be in for an unpleasant shock when they attempt to transfer these online school credits to another college.

They may find that a new online university will not accept the online course credits or degr
ees they have completed.

The major reason? Accreditation.

Learn more about how to transfer your military credits
 
LinkedIn Resume Fraud: Thousands List Fake Life Experience Degrees
Diploma Mill Police  >  Life Experience Degree
By Lorna Collier   
 
Listing fake degrees can be resume fraud and employers are becoming more vigilant.
In 2009, Rochville University, an online college specializing in "life experience degrees" based on resume reviews, awarded an MBA to Vermont dog Chester Ludlow for $499.

Yet Rochville's degrees, awarded based on work experience, continue to be listed by hundreds of professionals on their LinkedIn resumes. LinkedIn, a popular online networking site, allows users to post a resume and work history to promote their expertise and network with potential employers.

Besides Rochville, many other colleges that have been revealed as degree mills are listed by LinkedIn users on their resumes—thousands of professionals are claiming fake degrees as the foundation for their professional expertise.

HR screeners be forewarned: degree and resume fraud is rampant on LinkedIn and in the United States in general.

Read more about LinkedIn professionals using questionable online degrees
 
Online College Teacher and Military Instructor Loves Job on Navy Ship
Hot Careers  >  Education & Library Science
By GetEducated Consumer Reporting Team   
 
Linda Beckham, crew of the USS Pearl Harbor


As the giant USS Nimitz plows through the Pacific Ocean, online college teacher Linda Beckham sits on board before her computer, hoping her Internet connection stays alive.

If not, she will lose contact with another set of military students she teaches—men and women stationed in Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan.

Beckham is both an online college instructor and a traveling teacher for Central Texas College Online. You will frequently find her on Navy ships like the Nimitz, teaching online associate degree classes in English and pre-algebra with groups of sailors—sailors who are sometimes so exhausted from their duties that they stand during class, for fear of falling asleep if they were to sit down.
Read more about Linda Beckham's life as an online and onboard teacher
 
6 Tricks Online Degree Programs Use to Appear More Affordable
Online College Financial Aid  >  Cutting Online Degrees Cost
By Get Educated Consumer Reporting Team   
 


Online universities, unlike traditional colleges, don't need to pay for buildings, so they should represent a fairly cheap online degree alternative, right?Online University Cost of College Credits

Not necessarily.

Some online degree programs are, in fact, more expensive than traditional schools—but in this age of rising college costs some distance universities are deliberately misleading students into believing they offer the cheapest online degree.

Here are six online university cost tricks and scams you may encounter in comparing online degree programs. Don't be fooled by them!
Learn six tricks used by online colleges to appear affordable.
 


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