Bears Guide To Earning Degrees By Distance Learning (Bear's Guide to Earning Degrees By Distance Learning)

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inaccurate in places. preachy about accreditation in others

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best seller from an author formerly involved with unaccredited schools

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Bears Guide To Earning Degrees By Distance Learning (Bear's Guide to Earning Degrees By Distance Learning)
Mariah P. Bear , and Thomas Nixon
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For 30 years, BEAR'S GUIDE TO EARNING DEGREES BY DISTANCE LEARNING is the most comprehensive, respected, and opinionated guide to the potential minefield of non-traditional education. It 's often faster, cheaper, and even better to earn an associate's, bachelor's, master's, doctorate, medical, or law degree off campus. As more schools bring the classroom to the student through mail, video, and the internet, the need for an accurate, up-to-date, and technically savvy resource is more crucial than ever. This is the guide for anyone looking to advance a stalled career, return to the workforce, or take the next step to advance his or her education.

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Helpful, informative book........2007-06-27

This book provides information concerning many avenues of online learning in a convenient, useful format. It's a great source of information for the person who is just considering options as well as one who has already decided to take the plunge.

inaccurate in places. preachy about accreditation in others.......2007-02-26

After ripping on many, many schools that are not "accredited", the book goes on to mention, how you can get a "real" credit by buying a persian rug. Because everyone knows how difficult it is to buy a rug, let alone a Persian one.

Anyway bears lists "accredited schools with degrees entirely by distance learning"
and lists Alberta's Athabasca U as an "accredited school" = the have been open for a number of years and only in 2005 did the received accreditation- just look it up on their site. So basically if your school is "unaccredited" they you don't have a real degree, tell that to Royal Roads, UBC, Uvic, Uof Manitoba, and on an on. Because if you read the "university and college act" you will know that you can accredit yourselves, mind you with a bunch of paper work. oh, Devrey accredits themselves, so their degrees are not worth the paper they are printed on.

IF you want to look at the world of education the way the book looks at it, you are limiting yourself. Education should be just that an education, but whether you come out of UBC or Harvard with an undergrad, you basically know nothing. Ever have to write a 500 word essay at your current job? most of you can say no.

I say revamp the system and get to the meat of the degree in 2 years or less- of a a 4 year degree 2-3 years of it is spent entirely on basic courses.

Great Resource.......2006-12-14

If you are looking for a resource that will provide literally thousands of addresses (snail mail, e-mail, web addresses, phone numbers) with a brief annotation about each school that offers distance learning, then this is an excellent resource. If you are wanting to learn the very basics of accreditation of online schools, this will be a starting point. If you want a detailed, technical look at online learning and about higher education accreditatiion, this is not the purpose of Bears Guide.

Reviewer: Dr. Kellemen is the author of Beyond the Suffering: Embracing the Legacy of African American Soul Care and Spiritual Direction.

best seller from an author formerly involved with unaccredited schools.......2006-05-21

"A degree is often more useful than a good education or valuable skills in your field." (the authors, pg. 3)
"One man's degree mill is another man's alternative university." (the authors. Bears' Guide, 13th Edition. pg 306)
'People rarely check up on other people's degrees." (John Bear, Bear's Guide, 10th Ed., pg 24)
I think these quotes encapsulate John Bear's strategy and view of higher education. "alternative" is altedspeak code for "unaccredited." John Bear is correct on the second point - outright degree mills on the one end of the continuum shade into sincere but unrecognized alternative/unaccredited universities at the other. I myself would say they're all bogus - whether degree mills or "alternative/unaccredited" universities. John Bear by his own admission involved himself in his past with a string of unaccredited "universities/colleges" in states with lax or non-existent laws governing degree-granting colleges/universities.
Such unaccredited schools - according to some sources - were: MILLARD FILMORE (owner); INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES ( President, 3 years); COLUMBIA PACIFIC ( part owner); LONDON INSTITUTE OF APPLIED RESEARCH (owner); FAIRFAX UNIVERSITY ( part owner/founder); GREENWICH UNIVERSITY ( President, 1,5 years ).

It is instructive to consider the case of Fairfax University: John Bear and his wife were two of four founders, but left after the first few students enrolled in 1986. As of 1991, John Bear was calling this an "academically-sound program" in the previous version of this book. Here's what Fairfax University's current website advertising says: "Degree programs offered at Bachelor, Master, and Doctoral levels. Personal supervision by mail, telephone, etc by...highly qualified..faculty. No residency or written examination requirements. Work at own pace from home. Credits awarded for prior learning, training. Average duration of programs is 6-18 months." Sounds a lot like ads for a school for cartoonists. Fairfax is not accredited. The degree-granting authority comes from Louisiana, which has notoriously lax regulations, but the school itself is apparently in England with only a secretarial drop-office in Louisiana (all information from Bears' books). Posting on a message board on 1-28-2003, mr.Bear wrote "Don't even think of applying to Fairfax, unless you are comfortable with a degree whose use would be a criminal offense in New Jersey, Oregon, Illinois, etc".

Other alternative education enthusiasts favor loosening the traditional link between the bachelor's degree and the three or four years of on-campus study necessary to attain the degree. They want evaluations of "course equivalents" and credits for "life" experience - John Bear himself suggests that riding a horse, eating at an exotic restaurant, "applying statistics to gambling" (I like that one - a subscription to Racing Form ?...Bear is nothing if not droll) and reading his [Bear's] books "could" be worth credit for life experience learning (Bear's Guide 10th Edition). In my view, this "life assessment model" will have the same effect on university degrees as the dumbing-down of high school education did for the high school graduation diploma - render it untrustworthy. I note the US Armed Forces do not believe the GED is worth even as much as an high school diploma. I believe the same will happen with the bachelor's degree if large numbers of students start earning their degrees by "challenge" or "life assessment" or other bogus non-residential forms advocated by Dr. Bear. Incidentally, the bogus- sorry, "alternative"-degree community has a home on the internet. John Bear is guru-in-residence, but it appears his followers are predominantly trailer park residents and third-rate academics, judging by their incoherent postings.
This brings us to the book - "College Degrees by Mail & Modem." Bear's predecessor to this book - "100 College Degrees By Mail - Good Schools that offer Bachelor's Master's Doctorates, and Law Degrees by Home Study" - was a disgrace, in my opinion. Of the recommended "good" schools, about 97 were accredited, and 22 were non-accredited. Among John Bear's recommended "good" schools was "Eurotechnical Research University" of Hilo, Hawaii. (Hawaii at that time and still now does not have effective legislation to prohibit bogus schools). This school was run out of two rooms in the founder's home. John Bear admits to being a friend of the founder (since deceased) and an advisor to the "university." Yet John Bear didn't notice, until a Hawaiian reporter pointed it out, that an outright diploma mill (Leiland College) operated from a Hawaii post office box opened by the founder. Eurotechnical Research University at last report is now affiliated with a karate school, and the street address is a mailbox rental service. Several other unaccredited schools in Bears list of "good" schools have turned out to be "less-than-wonderful" or gone out of business. Bear himself notes that several legitimate schools have pleaded not to be mentioned in his books.Incidentally, John Bear himself was president of an unaccredited school - "Greenwich University" for eighteen months in Hilo, in the period 1990-1991. This and his other school of that time - a institution-in-planning temporarily called "School Without a Name" were also in Bear's recommended list of good schools.

Exemplary, Exhaustive, Honorable, Refreshingly Candid.......2006-05-05

Arm yourself with this lastest, updated version of Bears Guide before diving into the murky world of earning a degree through distance learning, particularly advanced degrees. It's exemplary and exhaustive in its research and useful database, the authors are honorable and refreshingly straight-talking - their candor will help you read between the lines of legality some questionable institutions engage in. You'll learn who's doing non-residency or semi-resident education, who's offering what degrees or fields of study, and who's reputable.

Bears Guides have been around for years, undergoing frequent revisions, championing distance learning, and exposing the crooks of diploma mills.

I want to counteract comments made in another (2003) review that seemed to disparage the integrity of author John Bear (whose daughter, Mariah, is carrying on his work with Nichols in these books). Bear is a founder of Degree.net, which I'd recommend as an adjunct resource to this book. He, and all the earlier versions of this book, have done a LOT to debunk and expose diploma mills to the general public. Other than the state of Oregon (which has a helpful website), no other entity in the U.S. has done - or is doing - as much.

Here's a quote from Wired Magazine news in March 2000:
"[Diploma mills] are growing, especially on the Internet, at astonishing rates," agrees John Bear, founder of Degree.net. Bear has witnessed the dark side of the distance-education boom up close. A former consultant, informant, and expert witness for the FBI's task force operation DipScam in the 1980s, he helped shut down a number of diploma mills over a 12-year period."

That quote alone should help - and hopefully my review, too. The layout of Bears Guide is reader-friendly and makes a complex subject accessible. And it's frequently updated/revised. So unlike the Peterson guide, there's barely a comparison between the two.

Earnings from Learning: The Rise of For-profit Universities (Suny Series, Frontiers in Education)

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Bears Guide to Earning College Degrees Nontraditionally

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Bear's Book a Standard for Advising Non-traditional Students.......2000-04-02

First a bit of background - I have been involved in distance education for over 25 years and have been a university and community college faculty member for over 15 years. I have traditional bachelors and masters degrees (two of them in fact). My work in distance education includes the design, production, scheduling and delivery of "traditional" video telecourses as well as Web-based courses.

In my work with students over the past decade and a half, I have advised a significant number to explore completetion or advancement of their academic programs through non-traditional or distance programs.

In all that time, I have used Dr. Bear's books as my primary referrence about distance education. I believe I started with the second edition of his "Bear's Guide" and have acquired every update since. For a number of years, his was the only publication which presented a comprehensive collection of information about programs and schools.

I have always received positive feedback form my students who relied on the information Dr. Bear presented - their expereinces with specific schools most often mirrored the reviews in the "Guide".

Throughout the years and the progression of new additions I have noted a marked shift in the method of presentation, particularly regarding the level of Dr. Bear's crusaiding against those institutions that did not measure-up to his standards. The largest number of those outfits would be called degree mills, but he did assail a fair number of "real" schools for being non-responsive, pompus or disorganized.

I must confess I miss that level of "edge" in his last couple of editions. This is unfortuante, I beleive, given the growth of educaitonal coursework via the Internet and the fact that the majority of two and four-year schools in the U.S are offering some form of distance learing (with that number growing every day.

Nonetheless, I still find "Bear's Guide" to be the best single resource for distance and non-traditional post-secondary education.

Bears Promote Worthless Degrees.......1999-03-10

I use Bears' books in a way the authors probably do not intend. I see many resumes in the course of my work. If a job candidate's resume contains a degree from a university mentioned in Bears' book I normally throw the resume straight into the trash - three points and a substantial saving of my business clients' time, money and aggravation.

Bears' book is an essential reference tool for all Human Resources personnel. This Bears' book serial - a new edition has to be printed every few years to keep up with the proliferation - is the industry standard listing of bogus schools. Professional recruiters need this book precisely because there are dishonest people out there who eagerly peruse Bears' guidebook to see which schools will grant them an impressive-sounding degree in return for cash and a minimum of effort. (Sadly, a few gullible boobs actually believe the degrees they get from these bogus schools are legitimate).

I'm always amazed at how easily even experienced recruiters are bamboozled by bogus degrees. Bears' guide lists almost every bogus school in the English speaking world and beyond. This Bears' book is the standard reference for Bears' book as being issued by outright degree mills. The Bears are thorough and honest about such "schools" - except where the school's owners have obviously threatened the two Bears with litigation, in which the Bears hide their opinions between the lines of the review.

2) Those "distance learning" - aka correspondence - "degrees" from marginal accredited institutions that more or less offer a degree for cash and a little work - often merely a perfunctory assessment of "life experience" and a short essay. John Bear suggests reading his book and getting pregnant are good for credit at some "non-traditional" universities... This is my main complaint about the Bears' enthusiasm for "non-traditional" degrees. It's my view that there is no substitute for spending four years (three years in some countries) immersed in an academic environment before a student can call himself "educated" in any real sense. No amount of correspondence study, exam challenges, or "real-life experience credit" will subsitute. The Bears do their readers a disservice by suggesting these "non-traditional" degrees are anywhere near as good as traditional degrees earned in residence. Anyone claiming a degree from one of Bear's suggested marginal "non-traditional schools" has a time bomb in their resume. Sooner or later they will be found out, laughed-at by their colleagues, and discredited. I note with amusement that John Bear himself carefully and repeatedly assures readers that his own PhD is from a legitimate traditional university. In his heart John Bear knows the difference...

3) The few legitimate "distance-learning" degrees offered by a realtively small number of reputable universities. These mostly involve novel tools such as lectures distributed by internet or private television broadcasts. These degrees are difficult to earn and the students is assessed and graded rigorously - as if he were an on-campus student. Often some on-campus courses and/or short residency are required before a degree is granted. Such legitimate degrees are not the focus of this Bears' book.

John Bear himself admits in his book to having being involved with several unaccredited "universities" that offered "non-traditional" degrees. He himself moved from California to that hotbed of academia - Hilo, Hawaii - to become President of the unaccredited "Greenwich University," - after California authorities moved to close down Calfornia's notorious degree mill industry. (Hawaii is one of the few remaining states that still has no effective regulation of unaccredited "degree granting" schools. The Bears acknowledge in their book that Hawaii has become the preferred destination of bogus schools kicked out of California). So, the Bears are uniquely qualified to write about bogus schools

Words cannot express, the power of the bear's guide.......1999-01-26

I don't remember who, what, or how I got this book, and could care less, all I know is... I got it and it changed my life for good, yes! words cannot express the power of this book, it is a must have for all young people like me.

thank you very much Dr.Bear for helping to change my life.

John Bear's book changed my life!.......1999-01-06

I had to work to eat but I always wanted to go back to school. John Bear showed me it can be done (both eating and school I mean). I just graduated Magna Cum Laude with a communications degree. Now I'm off to get a Masters. If I can do it so can anyone.Thanks John.

Thorough,informative and fair.......1998-12-31

In the 1970's I launched a private correspondence institution named Lincoln University (Arizona). Most students were from Nigeria. I had a lot of problems from "yellow journalism" - newspapers such as Britain's Daily Telegraph which never approached me denounced me falsely as a bogus degree salesman. I was very grateful to Dr John Bear for giving Lincoln a fair assessment in his Guide recognising my work as a genuine attempt to make quality tertiary education available at a cheap rate for Africa. I have gone on to be a professor in residential African and Asian universities whose standards certainly don't match those I set for "unaccredited" LIncoln.

I feel John Bear's research on real and imagined universities is very thorough, informative and fair.

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If you haven't heard, the future of higher education has arrived.  Computers and other technologies have made it easier than ever for you to make graduate school a reality by bringing the classroom directly into your home.  About 55 percent of colleges in the United States--and plenty abroad--offer some type of distance learning degree program.

The Best Distance Learning Graduate Schools shows you how to find exactly the program you're looking for and answers to all the questions you may have along the way: What method of delivery (Internet, videocassettes, etc.) is best for me?  Can I get credits for my career experience?  Do I need to travel to campus at all?  Can I design my own degree?  It also explains how schools are accredited, and how to avoid rip-offs and diploma mills.

This edition includes an information-packed directory of 195 accredited institutions that offer graduate degrees via distance learning.  Each entry includes everything you need to know about prerequisites, admissions, tuition, campus visit requirements, and delivery methods, plus all pertinent addresses (including email).  Here are just some of the study areas represented inside:

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"Without Leaving Home" ? This book was absolute GARBAGE !!!.......2001-07-05

Did the authors realize that over 80% of the Colleges they put in this book require some "on-campus" requirements? Suppose I live in New Jersey and attend a school in California,and I'm required to be on-campus 2 times a year for a week each time, HOW is that considered "Without leaving home" ? Some Schools in THIS VERY BOOK require students to attend weekend seminars 3 to 4 times a year!!! Can Somebody do us all a favor and recommend a book that has Distance Education with "100% NO ON-CAMPUS requirements" ? Please Change the TITLE of the Book. Going from Maine to Arizona DOES indeed require travel.

I found this book the most accurate and trustworthy........1999-11-06

I was led to this book as a subscriber of the free Virtual University Gazette. The Gazette is published online each month by Vicky Phillips, and lists new distance learning programs as they come online each month. By combining this book and the free listings in the Gazette I got the most accurate idea of where to attend graduate school online. See the Gazette at http://www.geteducated.com. The book and the Gazette are a god-send. Unlike other guides this one only lists a) accredited degree programs; b) programs that truly can be completed from the comfort of your home.

We purchased 3 distance learning books; only kept this one........1999-11-04

I was going crazy with all the hype I'd read online about distance learning. Bought 3 books to determine where and how I could earn a master's in human services. Best Distance Learning Graduate Schools is the book I found the most useful and accurate. Returned Peterson's Guide and Bear's book. I especially liked the introductory chapters on how to design your own degree and accreditation. Phillips and Yager are real pros.

This book did not even include programs I knew about........1999-09-14

This book appeared to review a random sample of programs. It did not even include two programs from leading Universitites that I already knew about. The book was worse than worthless.

Good reference, but inaccurate........1999-08-11

I bought this book while searching for a distance graduate degree in Biology. The book indicated that there was one University that offered such. However after contacting that University, I found that there was no such offering, nor had there ever been.

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Institutions from top universities to technical schools are taking advantage of the rich resources and opportunities of the worldwide web to offer online classes, courses, and even degree-granting programs. It has never been easier to complete your education without leaving home. But how can students determine which programs are genuine and which are scams? How can students maximize their learning experiences with the kinds of programs that are right for them, and the kinds of degrees that will take them the farthest after "graduation"? Matthew Helm and April Helm have the answer. Get Your Degree Online is a top-notch directory of the best distance-learning programs available. But the book offers so much more than a directory. Readers will learn about the various delivery methods involved in distance learning, the advantages and disadvantages of this form of education, and how to make sure distance learning is really for them. They will learn how to determine if a program is accredited and why accreditation is important, and how to tell real education opportunities from fly-by-night scams. They will even find out how to get financial aid for their online education. The book covers more than 350 degree programs.

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Get Your Degree Online.......2007-05-27

The book lists a compendium of institutions which grant online degrees.
Each school generally has an association with a national or international
consortia responsible for authenticating the degree content of member
institutions.

Examples of online engineering school programs are:
o Rochester Institute of Technology
o Colorado State University
o Arizona State University
o University of Illinois at Chicago

Examples of school programs in computers and information systems are:
o Algonquin College
o City College
o Baker College
o Champlain College
o Regis University
o NYU
o Strayer University

This book would be a good acquisition for anyone interested in attending
an online institution.

Get Your Degree Online.......2005-10-28

The book is not comprehensive. It omits many institutions and majors. Do not recommend.

Needs A New Edition.......2004-11-18

This is a useful book, but a lot of improvement is needed. A table of contents would have been very helpful, or, at least, the list of colleges in the back could have been accompanied by page numbers. That was a pretty silly oversight.

More importantly, I've been researching about thirty business administration programs and only about a third of them are listed in this book. The programs are well-publicized on sites like WWW.ClassesUSA.Com and (I'm fairly certain) all accredited. The problem is that if you want answers to questions without giving the schools your home phone number, you really need a book like this. Since new programs start all the time this book is really way out-of-date even if it's only from 2000. Still it does provide phone numbers that are often hard to find on the schools' websites and the entries often list sample course titles and program requirements. Hopefully, an improved and updated edition is forthcoming.

Good Reference.......2003-05-05

This book helped me alot. It seems to think of every degree possible and let you know which programs are accredited and what to stay away from. Gives you the schools and what they offer. Also help with financial aid.

Disappointing Book.......2002-05-07

Hardly a "top-notch" directory, this book is disappointing in so many ways. It's an obvious attempt to cash in on a popular topic. The information only vaguely represents what is available in distance learning today. Much of the book seems to be a "cut and paste" exercise on the few schools the authors (who obviously were sleeping at their desks during that Research 101 class) want to endorse or feel they have to include for no particular reason. Many important ground breaking schools like Excelsior College and Charter Oak are completely ignored. The authors might also be interested to know about some recent innovations in books like a "table of contents" and an "index." Readers seem to find these helpful. My personal recommendation is Bears' Guide to Earning Degrees by Distance Learning by John Bear. It's been continually revised for the last 25 years and is a comprehensive guide to distance education. I expect to see this one in the outside bargain bin for 25 cents real soon!

Learning, Earning and Investing: High School

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Learning, Earning and Investing: High School
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Give Your High School Students a Competitive Financial Advantage With this comprehensive investment education curriculum, you'll introduce your students to the ins-and-outs of long-term investing. They'll take a critical look at investment opportunities mutual funds, stocks, bonds, and more and uncover strategies for building lasting wealth. Wealth Building in Your Classroom: Activity-based Lessons Are the Secret After introducing key concepts, you'll reinforce them with engaging hands-on activities: simulations, role-playing, even a "financial bee". By providing a realistic connection to the market economy, your students will quickly master 4 essential themes: #1: The Basics # Should your students save? # What Is a Stock? Bond? Mutual Fund? # How do your students buy and sell securities? #2: The Markets # What is a stock market? # What role do financial institutions play in the economy... and your students' lives? # Do your students understand the "language" of the markets? #3: Financial Planning # How do your students build long-term wealth? # Should your students use credit? # What are the best ways to research companies #4: The Markets & the Economy # How are stock prices determined? # What role does government play in the market? # Can your student forecast the future? A Great Supplement to Your Stock Market Simulations These lesson plans are priceless if you're using the Stock Market GameTM or Stock Market SimulationTM,. You'll turn to "Learning, Earning and Investing" year-after-year to present key background material that gives your students a deeper appreciation of the Stock Market Simulations. Math Teachers: "Learning, Earning and Investing" Is Packed With Practical Math Lessons Do you students ask you "why do we need to know this stuff"? With these no-nonsense lessons, you'll introduce your students to the world of investing and still meet NCTM content standards. You'll give your math lessons new meaning with re

Earning and Learning: How Schools Matter

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From Learning to Earning: Yahoo! HotJobs Success Strategies for New Grads (HotJobs Career Advisors)

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Yahoo! HotJobs is the online destination for more than four million job seekers and hiring companies each month. Now, for the first time, the experts at Yahoo! HotJobs share their job-hunting expertise in this must-have book for new grads. This authoritative guide steers new job seekers toward fulfilling careers—and prepares them for the inevitable obstacles ahead. Included are surefire strategies for finding entry-level positions, as well as tips for transforming their limited experience into winning resumes, acing the interview, negotiating, and successfully transitioning into the working world. With hot tips from America’s top business leaders, recruiter cheat sheets, and useful exercises, From Learning to Earning will take readers from zero experience to the experience of a lifetime.

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Walston's Guide to Christian Distance Learning: Earning Degrees Nontraditionally, 4th edition

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Walston's Guide to Christian Distance Learning: Earning Degrees Nontraditionally, 4th edition

Walston's Guide to Christian Distance Learning: Earning Degrees Nontraditionally, 4th edition
Rick Walston
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This provocative book tells you how to determine if a college is a credible school. It identifies hundreds of good schools through which students can earn Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral degrees entirely off campus. It also exposes many less-than-wonderful schools that should be avoided. Walston's Guide has become the academic standard by which Christian distance learning is evaluated. It masterfully guides the reader through the important but often misunderstood concept of American accreditation. It also gives a trustworthy statement on how to understand global academic recognition. Walston's Guide is the must read for anyone interested in distance learning.

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New 5th Edition to be available in 2007.......2006-10-01

Hello Readers . . . as the author of Walston's Guide, I want to assure you that the rumors are true. I am presently working on an ALL, NEW edition of Walston's Guide. I struggled with even doing a 5th edition, but I have received so many terrific letters of encouragement--some almost pleading--for me to do a new edition that early this year I began researching and writing the 5th edition. Since the 4th edition in late 1999, many new schools have been started (some good, some bad) and many others that were already operating have expanded their offerings via Internet and distance learning. If you are thinking about earning a degree through distance learning and you are not in an immediate hurry, then you might want to wait until this book is published. While I can make no promises, the goal is to have the 5th edition on the "electronic shelves" sometime in the first quarter of 2007. Thank you all for your support.

A Must Read.......2006-08-23

I attended traditional schools, Biola University, Talbot School of Theology and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and they are all excellent institutions. However, I was looking for an alternative and cost-efficient approach to continuing my education when I came upon Dr. Walston's book. It is filled with a wealth of knowledge. I have never, until now, given an official recommendation, but I would recommend this book to anyone looking for an education, especially if nontraditional approaches to education might be considered. As a result of Dr. Walston's guide I avoided a number of fatal choices and enrolled in a very rigorous program at Columbia Evangelical Seminary. Whether you are looking to continue your education or are simply curious about alternative education, buy this book. It is a must read.

A Great Book . . . .......2006-06-15

Well, it's true . . . The Good News: I just spoke with Dr. Walston and he's planning to write an all new 5th edition of this book! We--his audience--have been waiting for this. I guess all the emails and phone calls he got asking for a 5th edition finally got to him! The Bad News: The new book might not be out until sometime in 2007. No matter, the 4th ed is a fine book and it is still highly used and immeasurably useful. I recommend it all the time to folks wanting to know what's what in Distance Learning, especially Christian Distance Learning.

A flower in the desert.....the guide to Christian Distance Learning.......2006-04-10

I began my journey of finding a trustworthy online degree program in Christian education about two weeks ago on my own, just googling around the internet sorting through a mass of different schools out there. I came across Columbia Evangelical Seminary and what caught my eye was the webpage on the site discussing the subject of accredation, what it actually means, and how this topic can be intentionally misrepresented and misleading among many Christian schools. What impressed me most was the selfless display of true Christianity that Dr. Walston displayed in this article. He was not just promoting his school, he was taking the step beyond and looking out to others interests, this was the first article in my long search that truly represented the Christian character of selflessness. That prompted me to buy his book which I find to be refreshingly honest, candid, straight-forward, impartial, and an essential guide and tool on my continuing journey to find the right school for me. I spotted only one mention to his self-review of Columbia Evangelical Seminary in the book, of which he is president and he treats it just as he would review any other school. He doesn't puff it up, he just treats it as candidly as he does the others. This is EXTREMELY encouraging to me and I HIGHLY recommend anyone searching for a school to buy this book and to watch for the next 5th edition soon to come out this year (2006). I would consider this book required reading for anyone considering the possibility of embarking upon a distance education program. Thank you Dr. Walston for being a true shepherd.

Walston's Guide to Christian Distance Learning: Earning Degrees Nontraditionally, 4th edition.......2005-10-18

This book is both informative and helpful. Rick Walston's masterful technique for blending research and practical tips helps the reader to spot a phony school that makes bogus claims it cannot fulfill as an educational institution of higher learning. I also like the way he treats "accredited" versus "non-accredited," sharing that some non-accredited institions are good ones.

If anyone is interested in Distance Education from a Christian Institution of higher learning, Rick Walston's book will be a marvelous tool to start with.

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