I just read the list of on-line degree granting institutions registered with this board, and they seem sparse in number. I'm curious at the paucity of off shore institutions and the high representation of ever present names.
I realize that this site is newly created out of the ashes of many generations of owners, but around the world are many more institutions that aren't just these commercial houses which register ubiquitously at any mention of school, class, degree or educational reference.
How can we possible create a forum, a site that actually gives the service I'm looking for, a clearing house of information from around our very small planet earth, a truly representative population of degree granting institutions?
I begin, too quickly perhaps, to judge that this might develop into yet another dead end.

nomaster. This is the second post I have seen from you along the same lines. I think you are correct. You will always find dead ends.

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Bachelor of General Studies: Athabasca University
MA (Leadership): University of Guelph
MBA: Columbia Southern University

Good point there. I'd be interested to know if the Google people could design a search filter that would screen schools on the basis of their accreditation status in addition to their they offer. Incidently DRJ, I was once in the Athabasca University BGS program and have a lot of good things to say about it. I opted out after taking an AU physics lab at the U of Alberta one late August and thought the U fo A engineering program seemed like a good career choice. I still think I did my most effective learning through AU though. One of the things I liked most about AU was their asynchronous format that let me spend less time on the things that came easy and more on the things that didn't. Another was the option to take one course at a time, cram for a month then write the midterm and final within a few days of each other with everything still fresh. I also liked their open admissions policy; it gives everyone a chance to take a run at a university education regardless of their background. The only difficulty I had was more of a culture thing; as a working guy who had to take the required English courses from a somewhat feminist prof I wasn't too confident in their ability to be objective about marking my essays. Other than that though, my experience was very positive.