I pretty much spent all of yesterday doing a new employee orientation online. It took me all day because I've come to realize that I am not a very good online learner...I had to keep re-reading everything. BUT, I have to say, I at least retained most of the information which is more than I can say about those boring lecture classes I took at my college years and years ago. I guess there is still hope for me in terms of taking an online MBA at Cleary!
Last year, I earned a certificate in online learning which was taught 100% online. Back in 2003/04, I taught online marketing and PR courses using dial-up internet (nothing better than getting kicked offline while you are hosting a chat session), but I had never actually taken a 'real' course online. The certificate program was a new experience for me and I found myself obsessed with checking the message boards, re-reading postings, getting assignments done ahead of time...needless to say, it was a lot of work! But again, like my experience yesterday, I found that I retained almost everything I learned and although it was a somewhat exhausting experience trying to figure out how to do a group PowerPoint presentation in an internet-based classroom, it was a great experience learning from my classmates who were not only from different states, but from around the world.
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