I've taken a few online learning courses at this point, through Harvard Extension, National University and a local JC here in California Santa Monica College. Overall, you're going to get out as much as you put in. Harvard was great in that they had normal professors teaching the online course, National has been hit or miss and the JC is simply charging you for taped lectures.
Best of luck, but in my experience the more "live" classes you can have, the better off the education is going to be!
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