Penn Foster online College

[Mr.B]

Not spamming here folks! Ive posted on the forums before.

Anyone else taken courses through them?


Ive been taking an online course through Penn Foster Career school. Ive taken classes at local community colleges but nothing really interested me.

The Foreman in the Warehouse I work in got his Associates in Accounting through the college, its accredited and what not. Fairly "cheap?" payments I pay $35 a month for tuition. Im working on a diploma in Wildlife/Forestry Conservation.

Check it out!



http://www.pennfoster.edu/

[Sarah]

FYI: Penn Foster is the other owner of the ICS archives.

We have all rights to the pre-1952 (UK registration, so NOT public domain), and they have the latter.

I deal with them constantly. Good people.

Sarah

[MYellowRose]

Sarah what are the ICS archives?
I've checked into Penn Foster and may look again since I don't think I'll be able to take the local college classes that I want to take after all.

[rivahmom]

I'm working on a Medical Assistant Degree through them because alot of my CNA courses transfered. My husband is also getting his Electrical Engineering degree through them because all of his military credits are transferable, which means he only has to take five classes total. He also gets exempt from labs because he is a master electrician. All other colleges are making him take everything all over again. I like the fact that they will tranfer just about any credit you have earned in the past and they include work experience.

[Mr.B]

Well today I just rec'd my Wildlife/Forestry Conservation diploma in the mail today! :P

I just enrolled in another course.

"Home Remodeling and Repair"

Since I just bought a house 8 months ago I thought it would help. Plus Id like to get into a building maintenance job where I work.

-B

[rivahmom]

Congratulations!! :)

[Sarah]

My Yellow Rose,

Sorry, I did not see your post, stumbled on it.

ICS: International Correspondence School of Scranton Penn. The archives are just that, all the coursework, etc from the school. 1891-1996. As I stated above, we own the 1952 and back materials. The Librum is a school, and does correspondence course work for OOM, so it should not surprise you to know we had a HUGE collection. Our school is exclusively for OOM, I am sorry to say. But, not all is lost for the English, we have had to restore, from original materials some of the works, and we have some online. Just visit the Librum website, http://www.librum.us. There you will find 'demo' versions of quite a few of the lessons.

We do sell a CD (soon to be DVD) of these restorations. Not stumping for sales, but it keeps me in stamp money. :)

Oh! I should put this out. On the ICS information page, we have a Excel spreadsheet of what materials we have here, not counting the other off-enclave controlled environment archives. CD purchasers have been given, in the past, the right to 'stack the deck' by telling me what they would like to see restored from that spreadsheet. When the latest batch is posted, we will be again asking for requests. Historically, this has been home schooler predomination, as the math classes were perfect for the parents to 'brush up'. In some cases, the home schoolers have tossed their modern materials for the ICS ones. I would guess that the home schoolers have been eighty percent of the purchasers.

Mr B,

Congratulations!

Sarah

[wmac]

FYI: Penn Foster is the other owner of the ICS archives. *

We have all rights to the pre-1952 (UK registration, so NOT public domain), and they have the latter.

I deal with them constantly. *Good people.

Sarah

Sarah,

Have you restored any of the UK-ICS booklets? All of the librum collection seems to be from Scranton branch.

Thanks,
Mac

[Sarah]

Mac,

A matter of interpretation. Almost all are US printed, but UK registered. The UK copyright system then was more advantageous to ICS. Still is. If these had been US registered, would now be public domain. Plus ICS had that *HUGE* printing plant in Scranton.

Trivia for you. Did you know that during WWII the printing plant at Scranton did the 'Hawaiian Dollars'?

Sarah

Sarah

[rivahmom]

I spent two years at Penn Foster working on an Internet Programming degree. When I went to transferred to a four-year university, NONE of the credits transferred. If you can't get federal financial aid through a college or university, their credits probably won't transfer to another institution.

Check out Kaplan University. Writing intensive, high degree of critical thinking needed, but their credits will transfer anywhere if you are interested in doing some graduate work.

I heard Senator Obama mention the need for broadband access in rural areas. This is especially important for continuing adult education in the face of a shrinking global economy. I hope he meant it.


It transfers to www.WGU.edu which offer quite a few programs. As with any school, I do agree that you need to research accredidation and take into consideration any long term options.