05-27-2016, 01:40 PM
Hi!
I have some peripheral knowledge of this topic.
If you were just getting a degree, and checking off course boxes, then online science should be fine.
Since you are planning on putting allied health science information you learned to practical use in a high risk / high consequence environment (like on people), you really should have taken them from a place such as a brick and mortar school.
The pace is slower and more regimented, and you can potentially receive a ton of feedback.
Some will take me to task and say, if you can learn it online, it's fine.
I agree with that.
However, if I were learning a trade, like you are, I'd want to do it with someone standing over me, and not necessarily where I buzz through some online materials and pop a few tests.
Especially dosage calcs and some A&P. I see people enrolled in those classes every day, and, they can be hard. Getting to look at a pair of lungs and trachea on a monitor doesn't really gel with them as well as when it's on a table in front of them, they tell me.
But I am sorry about the confusion as to whom will accept SL credits. It was enlightening for me, especially with current information.
I have some peripheral knowledge of this topic.
If you were just getting a degree, and checking off course boxes, then online science should be fine.
Since you are planning on putting allied health science information you learned to practical use in a high risk / high consequence environment (like on people), you really should have taken them from a place such as a brick and mortar school.
The pace is slower and more regimented, and you can potentially receive a ton of feedback.
Some will take me to task and say, if you can learn it online, it's fine.
I agree with that.
However, if I were learning a trade, like you are, I'd want to do it with someone standing over me, and not necessarily where I buzz through some online materials and pop a few tests.
Especially dosage calcs and some A&P. I see people enrolled in those classes every day, and, they can be hard. Getting to look at a pair of lungs and trachea on a monitor doesn't really gel with them as well as when it's on a table in front of them, they tell me.
But I am sorry about the confusion as to whom will accept SL credits. It was enlightening for me, especially with current information.
Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies Thomas Edison State University 2018
Cert in Emergency Management - Three Rivers CC 2017
Cert in Basic Police Ed - Walters State CC 1996
Current Goal: new job
Working on: securing funding I don't have to pay back for a Masters.
Up Next: Toying with Masters Programs
Finished: First Degree
Older Experience with: PLA / Portfolios, RPNow, Proctor U, ACE, NCCRS, DAVAR Academy (formerly Tor), Straighterline, TESU, Ed4Credit, Study.com, The Institutes, Kaplan, ALEKS, FEMA IS, NFA IS, brick & mortar community colleges, LOTS of vocational schools...
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