Yay! No M-F classes! (On-line lectures)

[pianola]

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I just found out some good news! I can potentially make up lessons from my statistics class with on-line lectures. This is great because it potentially frees up some Mondays and Fridays for interviews. Nice, yes?

I've never taken a web class before. Is there anything I should know about web classes ahead of time? Warnings or caveats?

What kinds of experiences have you had with on-line classes?

(I think I can choose to either go to the lecture or watch it on-line -- it's my choice as to which I do).

 

[p30doc]

I just found out some good news! I can potentially make up lessons from my statistics class with on-line lectures. This is great because it potentially frees up some Mondays and Fridays for interviews. Nice, yes?

I've never taken a web class before. Is there anything I should know about web classes ahead of time? Warnings or caveats?

What kinds of experiences have you had with on-line classes?

(I think I can choose to either go to the lecture or watch it on-line -- it's my choice as to which I do).

Congrats on gaining some freedom. I have had a few online courses, in my experience they require more work than classroom courses. The testable topics were vaguer thus requiring more knowledge of material than a typical classroom course, this was probably a function of my professors and the subject of courses. For my courses the exams were tightly timed with no backtracking and highly detailed making it impossible to take them open book. It is nice to be able to watch the lectures and take the exams whenever suits you though. I took immunology and anatomy and physiology I & II online. My anatomy courses had the same option to attend the lecture or watch videos online, I never once attended a lecture. I ended up with A's in all the online courses I took, I would say just keep up on the material and be studious.

 

[engineeredout]

Warning: You won't do **** with web classes. You'll completely blow it off. As much as actually going to class might not be fun, it gets you off your ass and makes you do something.

 

[pianola]

Yeah, this is graduate statistics.

And I've never taken undergraduate statistics before...

That might get me off my tushie 😉

The book is GINORMOUS, too.

Still, I could see the whole on-lineness causing me to procrastinate a bit.

 

[CluelessAsian]

I just found out some good news! I can potentially make up lessons from my statistics class with on-line lectures. This is great because it potentially frees up some Mondays and Fridays for interviews. Nice, yes?

I've never taken a web class before. Is there anything I should know about web classes ahead of time? Warnings or caveats?

What kinds of experiences have you had with on-line classes?

(I think I can choose to either go to the lecture or watch it on-line -- it's my choice as to which I do).

In my experience, online courses requires more discipline than classroom courses. More time is required. It takes more time to read 30 pages of stuff than listen to it from the instructor. A lot of times, the instructors think that online classes are easy so they make it even harder. There are good and bad instructors. Some let you take the test twice and some just once and some even let you take the test as many as you like to get a good score (different versions ofcourse). I took fast pace online statistics last semester and it wasn't bad.

Just be aware of the deadlines and discussion boards and you should be fine.