Archive for 'Online College Course' Category

Online Investment

Writing materials for online college courses is not easy. At first glance, you would think that you simply take the teaching materials that have been used in a classroom and put them onto a web site. In fact the reality is very far distant from this.
Obviously you have to [...]

Lost That Feeling

Well, after the “aha” moment it’s back to the slog of carrying on with my online degree. I’m starting to do some of the new line of research that is suggested by this new line of thinking. It means that although I’m deviating from the path that I thought I [...]

Important Days

For my online PhD I’m working on a subset of management that my supervisor has researched and published extensively. We have many heated discussions about what he says in theory and what I have done in practice – I am lucky enough to be researching a subject that I have [...]

Online Research

Onwards and upwards with my online PhD. Because I have been registered for a year, I need to put my proposal before a research committee. This is quite an ordeal, because I have had to prepare a document outlining the research topic, what the background is, and how I propose [...]

Plagiarism

At work we’re investigating a case of plagiarism. This used to be called copying, but in fact today it covers a whole spectrum of different actions, all about passing off work as your own that belongs to someone else.
Working on an online program leaves you open to a particular form of plagiarism that many people [...]

Online Differences

One of our departmental groups has been discussing the difference between online learning and e-learning. It’s funny how phrases are used and not really thought about or understood, and to some extent this is what is happening to the jargon that is accummulating around online courses.
Online learning refers specifically to programs and courses delivered using [...]

Discipline and Timing

Working and studying can give you a workload that becomes very difficult to manage. You need to be both ordered and disciplined in order to be able to do this well. I find it very difficult to let my work go and start thinking about study without a break.
For this reason I try to separate [...]

Studying the Possible

Studying an online program is not the easiest activity in the world. You need to be able to find time to commit to working at your program on a regular basis – depending on what level of qualification you are studying it could be as much as 10 or 15 hours per week, including working [...]

Distance learning

I was talking to my PhD supervisor who admitted that his first degree was a distance learning degree. This was in the 1970s when there wasn’t the technology to have online programs, but it was the paper equivalent – the university posted the learning materials to the students, they worked at the materials and posted [...]

Everything to Hand

I’m slaving over a hot computer and blessing the idea of online programmes. I’ve just been away on a business trip for more than three weeks, and if I was studying in traditional fashion, I would not only be behind with my own work, but I would have missed lectures and class content too.
This way [...]