Online education is a perfect way to start a successful career with flying colors.

Keen students be it a high school pass-out, working professional doing nine-to-find job to make both ends meet or a busy housewife- there are various accredited online universities, offering college courses online. With distance learning, one doesn’t have to make major commitments to score well. Students can purse online degree courses from their house without hampering your job prospects.

Benefits of Online degrees:

• Online education and Distance Learning environment offers visible and measurable benefits.

• The online education curriculum program runs through audio-visual, visual and e-learning modules. The Internet provides significant functionality in the transmission of information.

• Online learning enhances the interaction between the students and faculty to students.

• The online and web-based is a substantial added value to the traditional education.

• Online education promotes and enables student-centered teaching approaches. Thee education is tailor made to suit the personal learning styles and busy schedules.

• The study material is accessible 24x 7. Online availability of resources can be accessed from any corner of the world.

• Student’s progress is evaluated instantly.

• With the technological advancement online learning stands a great chance of popularity.

• Students can take course of education irrespective of the location of an online university.

• Distance learning is best suited for the students who are doing full time job and even those busy in fulfilling family responsibility.

• The academic staff is not restricted by geography or the halls of campus based buildings.

Various Online Degree Courses:

Vast and extensive range of courses is offered by various accredited online universities. Almost, all kinds of courses in various degrees are available. Virtually all courses offered in regular degree courses are offered by online universities through distance learning. Degree Courses are offered in streams of arts, science and commerce. There Bachelors degree (which is of 3-4 years), Masters Degree (of 4 years), Phd Degree (which can go for up to 5 years) and other vocational courses.

Here’s a list of top ten best online universities, ranked on the basis of its online degree courses, quality of course work, degree options, study material and administrative work:

1. Walden University

2. University of Phoenix

3. Bellevue University

4. Grand Canyon University

5. Salem University Online

6. Capella University

7. DeVry University

8. George Washington University

9. Strayer University

10. Villanova University

Quick tips to select online universities:

• Online degrees programs aren’t full time online. They work via mails, CDs, telephone and videotapes. Choose a university where the technical support is efficient.

• Inquire about the qualification and facilitation of instructors and teachers, which will undertake your classroom.

• Select a customer-oriented university that has a provision of assigning a personal advisor who helps to solve queries and actively participate in administrative details.

• Enroll in an online university where one can earn degrees within a time span of two to three year and avail lectures and study material by attending classes on a part-time basis.

Take an in-depth enquiry about the success and results of students and alumni.

Here’s why:

I’ve been studying Rudolph Flesch, the reading wars, the ed wars, John Dewey, and all points in between. Along the way I learned a lot about Montessori, and her losing, bruising battle with America’s top educators. Mainly, I learned that she deserved to win.

Montessori was the first female doctor in Italy, graduating in 1896. You know she was extremely smart and determined; you know she thought for herself.

She got into education along an odd tangent. She wanted to help retarded children (at a clinic in Rome). She devised her own techniques and was soon producing miracles: these retarded children were beating the so-called normal kids! Now, that right there is an amazing and wonderful story. But it gets better.

Montessori next asked the very questions that would obsess me: what the heck were the public schools doing to Italy’s children that they lagged behind her retarded children? How could she, a medical doctor, come along and beat those schools at their own game?

Long story short: she applied her techniques to ordinary kids and, soon, she was the talk of Europe and then the world. Her ideas swept through enlightened circles in the USA. She came here to speak in 1913.

And then comes one of the most shameful moments in American education. John Heard Kilpatrick, a crony of John Dewey, wrote a piece in the New York Times (1914) that devastated Montessori. Her reputation in the USA collapsed. Montessori schools closed. Her name disappeared until the 1960s. (Both she and Dewey died in 1952.)

Now, if you want to study the differences between Dewey and Montessori, here’s a long and thorough article: “The Egg Man and the Empress,” on Looksmart.com. But I warn you, you might study the material for a semester, and still be confused. So many platitudes, abstractions, details, generalizations. Finally, it comes down to what an educator is REALLY trying to do.

Maria Montessori was trying to set kids loose, make them smart, tap into all their resources, explore (and explode) their potential. That’s what I believe in.

John Dewey and his gang were all too willing to settle for mediocrity. They were Socialists and they believed that too much learning and knowledge got in the way of producing the cooperative, interdependent children they wanted. John Dewey specifically says in “My Pedagogic Creed” (1897) that he didn’t believe in too much history, science, math, geography, literature, and so on in the early grades. That is, ages 6 to 9 when, according to Montessori and common sense, kids are on fire, eager to learn, growing every day. No, John Dewey says that he wants to emphasize social activities, including “cooking, sewing, manual training, etc.” (his words). He wants to slow kids down, to retard them. The pay-off is supposed to be that they will grow up to become good little Socialists. (Even Antonio Gramsci, a real Communist, said that if you want to help poor kids, you had better give them lots of basic academic skills.)

Here’s what I’ve figured out: you have to look at motives. Montessori was obsessed with making slow children fast. That’s a pedigree I can trust. Dewey was obsessed with making all kids Socialists. So, from day one, Dewey was not an educator in the traditional sense. He believed in conditioning. He was a social engineer, trying to build the Brave New World he saw in his head.

A century later, we are still paying for Dewey’s bad ideas. Dewey, I submit, is the Father of Dumbing Down. He and his gang specifically did not like too much literacy. That is, they were comfortable with more illiteracy. And they got it. By promoting whole word, which does not work, they made sure that this country’s literacy rate would steadily drop. This pedagogy is also, I believe, responsible for all the dyslexia and reading problems we hear about. (Want to eliminate dyslexia? My guess is that the simplest way is to eliminate sight words. Every last one. Once children start to see word-shapes, they become doomed, no longer able to perceive sounds in print.)

The problem with Dewey and Kilpatrick is that they were trying to pull off a silent coup. They wanted a Socialist America. You think they can speak candidly about their goals or strategies? Never. That’s why anything Kilpatrick, Dewey or their allies say about Montessori will be bull and balderdash. It will, more formally, be disingenuous.

Bottom line: Let’s don’t get stuck in the details. Montessori was a real educator. She always INTENDS to educate. Dewey was a real Socialist. He always intends to create Socialists. As most people understand the term “education,” Dewey was actually anti-education. Or, to be charitable, he was remarkably cavalier about it!