Kaplan University - Information Technology

Difficult when studying IT

By: upsidedowntictac (In Progress) on January 14, 2008

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I started Kaplan in April of 2007. The first few courses were okay. I had a few writing classes and academic strategies classes. I thought this was a good thing, since it had been ten years since I had been in an academic environment. I have managed to hold down a 4.0 for almost the entire first year. In the last two semesters, however, I have started taking the core claases that are supposed be directly related to my degree. When studying something like network administration, it is really difficult to read two to three chapters a week, with no hands on learning. The seminars are one hour long, and there is a lot of info to cover. Most of the time there is so much info and students have so many questions, that the class is spent before all of the material is reviewed. Some of the instructors would be better off not teaching. I have had instructors that do not respond to questions, emails, etc. I also recieved a notice saying that they were sorry that I had decided to drop out of Kaplan when I had not. They said it was a mistake, but how does domething like that happen. In a nutshell, I don't know about other areas of study, but for IT, online education is a bad idea.