Dad's going back...but online

84Bruin
Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:41:12 +0000

I am an elementary school teacher and I got my Masters Degree completely online through National University. It was a very flexible program. I could choose which months I “went” to school. I had classmates (and at least one instructor) all over the world. I got really good at PowerPoint since all of my presentations were done on that. They sent me my books in the mail, and I could even check out books online and they shipped to me “free”. Most of the communication with the professors was either through PowerPoint presentations, or via posting to threads. Creating posts and responding to others’ posts were required each week, so there was “class” discussion. I only had a few classes where there were live chats which tended to be clumsy. I prefered the posting to threads. Written assignments were all emailed to the professor. Some classes had online multiple choice tests that were timed.Overall it was a great experience. You do need to be disciplined and ready to pay (it’s pricey!).