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Message: [QUOTE="Chin Diesel, post: 3599151, member: 34"] Been doing my master's classes online. For me it has been good because I can do the coursework while I travel for work or am at home. Couple of things. The classes I'm taking are mostly in the social sciences and humanities for human factors, performance improvement, operational efficiency stuff. No labs or clinicals are required. Another area why I believe it works is the faculty all have backgrounds in instructional methodology and distance learning. Producing online content and delivering online content is their specialty. What I like most about it is flexibility to get stuff done on my time line but also having firm dates. I prefer teachers who start the week on Monday and end on Sunday night but not all do the same- reading the syllabus and course schedule is imperative. For a typical Mon-Sun class flow.... Mon-Wed read required reading from text books, teacher's note on the class site, any teacher videos and other embedded videos or text. Wed-Thurs go online and start a thread with basic metrics for length and content. Thurs-Sun Read other students threads and reply to at least two other students' threads. Answer all replies to students who commented on your own thread. Lather, rinse, repeat. No kidding the weekly discussions are like doing stuff on the Boneyard. Throughout the semester you'll usually have a handful of 3-5 page papers due or a smaller number of 7-10 page papers due. Some classes had tests, some did not. Teachers were always responsive to emails within 24 hours on weekdays and at some point on the weekend. Things I didn't like is too much kids gloves in the class discussions. Maybe I get jaded from the Boneyard but when 95% of the comments to anyone's posts start with "I really like how what you wrote related to in a book or video" it gets boring. OTOH how many time do students go back in forth in a classroom? Not too much. [/QUOTE]

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