Bears' Guide to the Best MBAs by Distance Learning Review

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(More customer reviews)Obviously you are looking to expand you knowledge and would like to earn your MBA from home or work. This book does a good job of listing numerous Colleges and Universities around the globe (mostly in the US) that offer an on-line MBA. The book has a standard format for each school providing requirements, costs and an overview of the programs. The main downside is that on some of the programs, they do not provide all of the information. That was frustrating. However, there is information where additional information may be obtained directly from the schools. The Bottom Line: I would purchase this book again.

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In this booming economy, there's a growing number of career-minded professionals who want an MBA but don't want to put their lives and careers on hold for the traditional two years it takes to get one. In BEARS' GUIDE TO THE BEST MBAs BY DISTANCE LEARNING, distance-learning experts John and Mariah Bear take you through every step of the process of getting an MBA without ever leaving your home, from choosing the right program (from the 100 featured schools) to making sense of the latest distance-learning technologies.

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Bears' Guide to the Best Computer Degrees by Distance Learning Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is an excellent buy for anyone that is thinking of getting a computer-related degree via distance learning. The authors have sorted out what, in their opinion, are the one hundred best degrees offered and provided for each school their accreditation information, the computer degrees it offers, contact information, and a brief description of the program offered. This book gives the reader a good look at the types of computer degrees that are available and, in my opinion, cuts about 90% of the work involved in getting matched up with the school that best suits his or her needs.

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Although it'¬?s a challenging job market for the high-tech elite-software designers, database programmers, website builders, network administrators, and IT professionals-this new Bears'¬? Guide maps the most direct route to those top-dollar salaries, showing you how to earn a fully accredited undergraduate or graduate high-tech degree without setting foot on a college campus. Profiles over 100 distance-learning programs in such fields as telecom, computer sciences, MIS, IT, and more. Tips on the latest learning technologies and hot career directions.

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Bears Guide to Earning College Degrees Nontraditionally Review

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(More customer reviews)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.

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The essential reference to alternative education, this book covers it all: night and weekend colleges, foreign medical schools, degress by Internet and other e-mail avenues, and basically every other way of earning a Bachelor's, Master's, Doctorate, law, or medical degree through some unconventional method.

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Bears' Guide to Earning Degrees Nontraditionally (13th ed) Review

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(More customer reviews)Pardon the hyperbole, but no "nontraditional" (i.e. working adult) student should be without this book. John and Mariah succinctly and humorously break down the good, the bad, and the ugly in this guide to the world of nontraditional and distance learning.
If you're a working adult considering your options for continuing your post-secondary education, you need this book. There are many ways to earn or complete a degree, and Bears' Guide attempts to show you the myriad paths and how best to select and pursue them.
Last, but not least, there are many "institutions" in the US and abroad that would love to have your money. In fact, many of them would be perfectly willing to sell you a degree that would serve you better as toilet paper than as a credential. This book helps you tell the difference between institutions that deserve your money/time and those that deserve to see your backside.
There are only a couple of high-quality general treatments of the topic of distance and nontraditional education, and this is one of them. The other is Marcie Thorson's Campus Free College Degrees. Peterson's guides get an honorable mention from me.
In closing: I own it; I love it; I highly recommend it. Now go buy a dozen copies!

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The essential reference to alternative education, this bookcovers it all: night and weekend colleges, foreign medical schools,degress by Internet and other e-mail avenues, and basically everyother way of earning a Bachelor's, Master's, Doctorate, law, ormedical degree through some unconventional method.

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