Sensei Joe (teaching in Japan)
- 2006-05-03
"Steer clear of any school that doesn't have proper accreditation," Anderson urges. "It is often after the fact that servicemembers realize they have wasted their time, money and efforts.
"Be a smart consumer, and before you do anything, investigate your academic choices with the counseling professionals at the DCTEE," he said.
Anderson passes along these signs to recognize bogus diploma mill operations.
u The university claims it is a "prestigious unaccredited university." There is no such thing. Accreditation is the highest mark of educational quality. Diploma mills are bogus universities that sell college diplomas--a piece of paper rather than the educational experience.
u The school is accredited but not accredited by an accrediting agency recognized by the U. S. Department of Education. Visit the Department of Education Web site for a list of all accrediting agencies at www.ed.gov/ admins/finaid/accred/accreditation.
u Admission criteria consists entirely of possessing a credit card. Valid universities admit you through a formal application process that includes official transcripts and a review of your existing academic records.
u You can get an entire degree based on your career or life experience as it equates to college-level learning. No valid university will grant you an entire graduate degree--master's or doctorate-- based solely on a review of such experience. Undergraduate programs are more flexible but they normally limit the amount of credit you can earn from a "portfolio assessment" of your past career/life experience.
u The university promises you a degree within 30 days of paying a certain amount of money. Diploma mills are in the business of selling you that piece of paper.
u You are promised diplomas for a lump sum of cash.This is a sure sign you're dealing with a diploma mill.
u When you call the Better Business Bureau there are several consumer complaints about the "school." Visit the BBB Web site at www.bbb.org.
u The "admission counselor" tells you that online or distance learning universities can't be accredited by a recognized accrediting body. This is untrue.
u The school's Web site either lists no faculty or their faculty attended schools accredited by bogus agencies.
u The distance learning university offers degrees to U. S. citizens but is located in a foreign country, often a tiny island country no one has heard of.
For more information about earning a college degree or taking college courses, visit the DCTEE at 1520 Freedman Dr., or call 301-619-619-2854.--Information from Web site www.geteducated. com.
Sensei Joe (teaching in Japan)
- 2006-05-03
There are more than 400 diploma mills and 300 counterfeit diploma Web sites, and business is thriving amid a lackluster economy doubling in the past five years to more than $500 million annually, according to estimates kept by John Bear, author of Bears' Guide to Earning Degrees By Distance Learning. He studies degree mills and gives tips to the FBI and other federal agencies on detecting degree fraud.
Some fake schools in Europe have made as much as $50 million a year and have as many as 15,000 "graduates" a year. The number of fake accrediting organizations set up by con artists to provide diploma mills an air of legitimacy has swelled from half a dozen 10 years ago to 260 in 2003.
Superb:
1) Patience. If someone has a question, don't be rude when they are trying to understand it.
2) Learn when to shutup. Many teachers I've had in the past keep talking to the class even after they have assigned the class something to do. Then the teacher wants to know why the work wasn't done.
3) Make sure you have a full understanding of the subject you are teaching.
4) Make sure you have at least a decent grasp of the language you are speaking in. It is extremely annoying when a teacher says something like "irregardless" or add a preposition/prepositional phrase to the end of every sentence, whether or not it actually belongs there.
5) We need homework, but don't give us so much homework that we end up neglecting our other courses. We don't want to stay up until 3 in the morning doing our homework just like you don't want to stay up grading it.
6) Be willing to work with your students, but don't be a pushover
7) It is quite unprofessional to come in to class dressed like a 16 year-old high school girl.
I have some more, but I'll stop there. ^_^
by:Techie-Micheal
http://www.bertieaddicts.org/