Do employers take online colleges seriously?

[Iwritecode]

Nope, its cause the way the stuff is taught is flawed... but each piece, each class is a little flawed but that professor just assumed "Eh I will teach my shit, and they will learn what they learn" but the problem is learning in some courses require a foundation that people may not have and often don't have any clue they need. I had to learn so many programming languages on the fly just to complete an assignment.... there was value in that, but something tells me I could have learned more, got more value if I had that foundation when the class started.

I think some of it depends on the teacher as well. The first programming class I took was Cobol. The teacher started from the ground up and assumed (probably correctly) that nobody in the class had any prior programming experience.

It pretty much set me for my career thus far.

 

[Iwritecode]

Real talk. My wife has been working in IT for about 18 months after coming over from a Project Management position at another company and she's already in line for management role at this new company because she's like the only person in the IT department with people skills.

I haven't really experienced this all that much. I've worked with a few people with some odd quirks but no more than any other job I've had.

I did work with one programmer that couldn't figure out how to program her thermostat or her VCR. That sorta blew my mind. Most IT people are the sort that have no trouble doing simple things like that.

 

[Iwritecode]

then I misunderstood what u were saying bash me all u want call me names makes no difference to me. if I misunderstood what u were saying my bad. it just seemed as if u were downing someone who was attempting to improve themselves by whatever possibiltys they had at their disposal. not everyone has the cash or time for going to a school people have children and jobs and shit that makes that almost impossible

I think he's talking about HS graduates with every option in front of them. You're much better off going to a CC for a couple of years rather than taking online classes through UoP. Hell, you may be better not doing anything compared with taking their classes. They are too profit driven.

As I mentioned before, I spent 45 minutes on the phone with a dude trying to convince me to send in my loan paperwork and start taking classes ASAP. He was worse than a car salesman.

Students should be hoping the colleges let them in, not the other way around.