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13 Post author: ShanghaiTEFLer 02 November 2012 11:13AM

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Comment author: ShanghaiTEFLer 02 November 2012 03:47:50PM 0 points [-]

If Getting a teaching degree from anywhere will help you get better jobs on the margin. For best results just go with a teaching degree from the country that the school you're working at follows. I presume there's one US university that offers M.Ed.s as correspondence courses. For the UK I believe the University of Sutherland and the Open University both do so, and for Australia the University of New South Wales.

Comment author: MileyCyrus 02 November 2012 10:32:56PM 0 points [-]

Is Open University legit, or is it the Australian equivalent of the University of Phoenix?

Comment author: gjm 03 November 2012 12:48:33AM 3 points [-]

The Open University is in the UK, not Australia. It is a real university. It does almost all its teaching, and much of its examining, by correspondence.

Comment author: David_Gerard 03 November 2012 10:54:37AM *  2 points [-]

The OU is real, and an OU degree is respected (at the very least insofar as looking good on a CV) because it shows you can finish a degree while also working a day job.