I am assuming that some of you who have studied at UNISA have worked with their North American agent ADLC. However, my search didn't come up with any posts about them. What exactly do they do for the "customer"? Are there any advantages or disadvantages to working with them as opposed to working directly with UNISA? Other input?
Ah, thank you. I was searching for ADLC -- but the previous discussions were about the IACI -- (what they were called).
Just as an aisde... While the logic of your search string: (unisa AND (esselen OR iaci)) site:degreeinfo.com is both correct and obvious by your use of parenthesis, I thought Google, nevertheless, didn't like them; and that using parenthesis, while often functional with simple search strings, tends to throw Google off, generally... ...which is why, as I understand it, Google's staff recommends that one should, instead, combine calculator expressions with boolean operators to achieve the same thing. For example, as I understand it, the following search string: +unisa +esselen OR iaci site:degreeinfo.com accomplishes exactly the same thing as yours does, only more reliably and effectively; and in a manner consistent with all of Google's various documentation releases. I also note that your search string kicks the error message: The "AND" operator is unnecessary -- we include all search terms by default [details] whereas my string (which conforms to all Google documentation) does not kick any error messages. Sadly, the simplicity of both search strings (yours and mine, here) does not really help illustrate how yours could produce unreliable results (or at least Google claims it could) were the string more complex; but I'm told that if the string were more complex, the results produced by doing it using methodology similar to that which I've illustrated here (as opposed to what you've used) will produce more meaningful, accurate, numerous and more-tightly-targeted results. Or so I'm told. And I'm only bringing it up on the off chance that it turns out I'm right, I just don't want bad Googling technique to be proffered around here... you know... in the "just tryin' to help" spirit. Of course, the bigger and more interesting thing we learn from all this is how Google's searches of DegreeInfo's forums are, at least for the moment, working better than the forum's own search mechanism... ...something that's becoming a significant frustration for many members here, I've noticed; and which has been reported, but which remains unrepaired.
