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Online courses are very convenient for students that have busy schedules ...
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that may ... 

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coming to campus a little more difficult such as ...

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working full-time or having to take your children.

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Another reason to take an online course would be

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because you are naturally a self-initiating kind of student.

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You naturally .... 

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you naturally set tasks and accomplished them.

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And so by being more of an entrepreneurial student, self-initiating student

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you ... 

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an online class gives you the flexibility and the opportunity

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to engage that aspect of ...

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structured and scheduled

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lecture classroom setting.

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Well, Cerro Coso uses Moodle for all of our
online classes so once you take an online class then that's pretty much the ...
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the environment that you'll be working in.

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Instructors will organize their
lectures a little bit differently within blocks, but the basic Moodle architecture

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stays the same

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across courses.

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I would say they need to have access to high-speed internet.

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As long as the student has some basic computer knowledge

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they know how to upload a file ... 

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email ...
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work with 
email.  

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I think they can be successful.

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The advantage of an online class is that it's asynchronous ...

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which means that you can do it whenever the time is convenient to you

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within the time frame of the course, but understand

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asynchronous doesn't mean that the course
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Activities are usually plotted in a course
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You have due dates throughout the week
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treat it like a class

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do your homework and follow through on it.

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So, if you got ... a four unit class which is what my class would be

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find four hours that you can establish whether two hours

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two days a week one hour four days a week that 

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you dedicate to going through that week's activities

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paying attention to when the due dates are during the week

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and then use the rest to your study time ...
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writing your papers...

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and make sure you keep up with deadlines.  

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I can't tell you how many times I've had students have who've told me I just forgot the
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Will you take this?

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And depending on the instructors policy ... 

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late work may or may not be
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