03-20-2013, 06:53 AM
1. What are a few of the exclusive benefits (if any) that you have experienced by choosing distance education (DL)?
[*]Working from home I don't have temptations from classmates to skip class.
[*]I save a lot of time not commuting to class.
[*]I have more resources at my fingertips at home than in the dorm or study hall.
[/LIST]3. From your perspective, what are the three biggest hindrances to learning by means of distance education for you personally?[LIST=1|INDENT=1]
[*]Instead of an institutional degree plan all laid out, I have to figure it out by myself and then hunt all over the country for the courses to fit it.
[*]There are less chances for misunderstanding of meaning with face-to-face communication
[*]Group projects are much harder and take more time without face-to-face.
[/LIST]4. Why are you a distance learner?[LIST=|INDENT=1]
[*]The only school that would allow me to complete my degree with the credits I already had was exclusivly DL
[/LIST]5. Do you prefer distance learning to traditional means of obtaining higher education (i.e. "brick and mortar schools")?[LIST=|INDENT=1]
[*]In my future educational endeavors, I will be glad to get back to the classroom with fellow students and personal interaction with the teachers.
[/LIST]6. Do you believe that there any risks associated with being a distance learner?[LIST=|INDENT=1]
[*]Because you are not aware of your classmates on a personal level, if you are not mature enough to do everything working emotionally alone, you will fail as I did in my first 2 attempts at DL
[*]I believe there is a tendancy to think you don't have to put as much time into DL as a classroom course. Probably because you don't take into account that besides studying the material you have "lecture" it to yourself. So you can easily underestimate the effort needed to keep up and get so far behind that you fail.
[/LIST]Good Luck on your capstone! Keep us posted ont this thread as your research develops. I'm with TESC too (BA Music) and will start my capstone in June.
- [*=1]Significantly more schedule freedom
[*]Working from home I don't have temptations from classmates to skip class.
[*]I save a lot of time not commuting to class.
[*]I have more resources at my fingertips at home than in the dorm or study hall.
[/LIST]3. From your perspective, what are the three biggest hindrances to learning by means of distance education for you personally?[LIST=1|INDENT=1]
[*]Instead of an institutional degree plan all laid out, I have to figure it out by myself and then hunt all over the country for the courses to fit it.
[*]There are less chances for misunderstanding of meaning with face-to-face communication
[*]Group projects are much harder and take more time without face-to-face.
[/LIST]4. Why are you a distance learner?[LIST=|INDENT=1]
[*]The only school that would allow me to complete my degree with the credits I already had was exclusivly DL
[/LIST]5. Do you prefer distance learning to traditional means of obtaining higher education (i.e. "brick and mortar schools")?[LIST=|INDENT=1]
[*]In my future educational endeavors, I will be glad to get back to the classroom with fellow students and personal interaction with the teachers.
[/LIST]6. Do you believe that there any risks associated with being a distance learner?[LIST=|INDENT=1]
[*]Because you are not aware of your classmates on a personal level, if you are not mature enough to do everything working emotionally alone, you will fail as I did in my first 2 attempts at DL
[*]I believe there is a tendancy to think you don't have to put as much time into DL as a classroom course. Probably because you don't take into account that besides studying the material you have "lecture" it to yourself. So you can easily underestimate the effort needed to keep up and get so far behind that you fail.
[/LIST]Good Luck on your capstone! Keep us posted ont this thread as your research develops. I'm with TESC too (BA Music) and will start my capstone in June.
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