Thanks again to everyone who has sent supportive email and ideas. Please keep them coming. Useful FAQs are always in the process of being revised. Respectfully submitted, Rita Laws, Neil Hynd, Al Lepine. Legitimate degrees are always earned, never bought.
Diploma mills offer frivolous qualifications for money and little or no work.
DL allows adults to earn college credits, even entire degrees, without ever leaving home. DL makes use of the Internet, software, modems, TV stations, 2-way television using fiber optics, microwave, digital phone lines, satellites, radio, ham radio, video cassette and audio tape, and normal mail to deliver instruction. DL also refers to on-campus classes where the professor is not physically present, but communicating with students at several sites simultaneously via television, modem, or some other electronic means. DL is part of all degree types, from the A.A. to the Ph.D., and is an option in most majors, and at hundreds of universities worldwide. DL is for people who want to learn a new skill, or just pick up a few new ideas for the fun of learning.