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June 16, 2004
Distance learning
One of my degrees came through distance learning. I learned by reading and doing. Reading books and working out exercises either on paper or on a computer.
That should transfer easily to reading web pages and working out exercises, right?
I'm taking a course now in Launching and Sustaining Virtual Teams over the Intranet. And it's not working for me. I realize I cannot get myself to read a bunch of text online. When there's too much text on the page, I can barely get myself to read the first sentence before scanning.
Furthermore, the exercises are all of the form, "Answer these questions about your team," or, "Complete this worksheet based on your team and answer these questions." It's going to be a lot harder next time to convince me to take an online course.
Posted by Mark at June 16, 2004 11:35 AM