Virtual Gap Years

A lot of institutions have recently converted back to virtual learning for the fall semester. Some of their offering will be fine, but many faculty are still new to online teaching. Plus many of these institutions are still charging full price.

Online courses have the potential to be great–think Star Wars the movie. But what many places will be offering is emergency remote teaching–think Star Wars the high school play. It is not quite the same thing. Here is a brief list of other options for virtual gap years and other virtual educational options.

Virtual Semester from Verto and Minerva  

https://vertoeducation.org/semesters/global-impact-semester/

Virtual Gap Year – College Programs

Chamblain College Virtual Gap Year

Adelphi University Virtual Gap Year

Park University $2250 Flat Rate Tuition Virtual Gap Year

Virtual internships, outdoor experiences and study abroad programs

GoOverseas Virtual Internships

https://www.unitedplanet.org/virtual-gap-year

UMass Lowell Virtual Study Abroad

https://www.globalcitizenyear.org

CISAbroad Virtual Internships

Virtual Internships

National Outdoor Leadership School

Study Abroad Association Virtual Study Abroad

AIFS and Global Experiences

Exotic Campus-like environments (mountains and beach) providing dorms and services to support virtual classes at your home institution: “keep your college education on track AND be based somewhere beautiful with freedom to explore, study, and be surrounded with awesome like-minded people.”

https://www.aplacebeyond.com

https://www.pacificdiscovery.org/programs/discovery-campus/#e745%23program-info

High quality free online courses from the best brand-name institution’s (often with optional pay certificates)

https://www.coursera.org

https://www.edx.org

Online providers of high quality courses that should transfer

https://outlier.org  (only Calculus and Intro Psych so far but $400 for 3 credits)

Lots of cheaper NFP online options, from places that specialize in online education 

https://www.wgu.edu

https://www.snhu.edu

Plus the large  “Global Campus” units many campuses

U Texas https://global.utexas.edu Maryland global campus

U Arizona  https://global.arizona.edu

Arizona State https://go.asuonline.asu.edu/brand-nwt/

U Maryland https://www.umgc.edu

Johns Hopkins https://www.jhu.edu/academics/online/

Cornell https://onlinelearning.cornell.edu