Advice for a total stranger to DL (As well as western education system) world.

Dear Forum Members,


I’m a self educated designer and cofounder of a design studio with the various skills. (See End of message for more info on my skills)

I’m very interested in attending online courses about Graphic/Web/UI Design.
From what I found in Internet, the best place for me is “sessions.eduâ€, an online college for learning my favorite learning topics.

However, several matters preventing me making the final decision:

First, I’m living in Middle East and I’m totally unfamiliar with the western education system terminology and values. I’m not sure if my “sessions.edu†fits for my needs or not and I don’t know if there are any less expensive alternatives. On the other hand, I can not understand the real difference between certificate programs, and sites that gave you certificates without training (like brainbench.com that only take the exam).

Please guide me to find the faster and less expensive way.

Thanks.

For more info on me, here you can see a list of my skills.


Image Editing Software:
Adobe Photoshop 6
Adobe Image Ready
Adobe Image Styler

Layout Software:
Macromedia FreeHand.
Adobe InDesign.

HTML Authoring:
HTML 4 /CSS 1 development in harmony with (W3C) standards.
Adobe Golive 5.
Macromedia Dreamweaver.
MS FrontPage 2002.
NetObjectFusion.

3 Dimension software:
3D Studio 4. (MS-DOS)

Multimedia:
Macromedia Director.
Macromedia Flash.


IT Knowledge

Operating Systems

Power User:
Mac OS 7.x ,8.x, 9,x and X Workstation.
MS. Windows 9X, NT Workstation and Windows XP Pro.

Familiar with:
Be OS.
Red Hat.Linux.
Novel Netware.

Web Servers:
MS IIS.
Web Star.