By Devon Haynie, US News
Pennsylvania State University–World Campus, for example, also offers a free eight-week-long course for prospective students curious about whether they are prepared for online learning. The course, which students don’t earn credit for, asks students to develop an academic and career plan. Students turn in assignments and have access to the learning management system, the library and academic advisers. “This is for students to decide, ‘This is right for me,’ or maybe ‘No, this isn’t right for me right now,'” says J. Richard Brungard, program manager for the World Campus. “That way we don’t have students who are racking up debt or using financial aid and not completing their courses.”
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