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TIPS FOR ONLINE LEARNING
“Adjusting to Online College” excerpted from The Best Schools Online Magazine
1. Learn How to Use Your Equipment
Make sure everything is working, up to date, and that you know how to use it all.
2. Be Your Own Boss
Nobody’s going to crack the whip, so you’d better be prepared to hold yourself accountable.
3. Learn to Talk Good
When you send your professor a message, no abbreviations, no emojis, and no LOLz. Compose an email as if you’re speaking to a future employer, each and every time.
4. Develop a Routine
Not only will this help you formalize your online educational experience, but it’s a good way to prevent the responsibilities of work, life, and school from piling up at once.
5. Get to Know Your Professors
Correspond only through the proper channels, of course. A respectfully enthusiastic email now and then could foster a valuable relationship.
6. Create a Positive Working Environment
As part of establishing a routine, create a space that makes you feel studious, energetic, and focused. When it comes to online education, just because you can do it anywhere, doesn’t mean you should.
7. Avoid Distractions and Time-Burglars
While I wouldn’t recommend working in an isolation chamber, there’s probably a happy medium between that and the room where you keep your Playstation. It’s also best if you make sure that your family, friends and pets know, if the class is a-rockin’, don’t come a-knockin’.
8. Don’t Expect It to Be Easier
If you thought online education would somehow be academically easier and thus a more attractive option, you’re doing it for the wrong reasons. Gear up for a challenge and prepare to work hard like you would in any class.
9. Know the Rules of Plagiarism
Now that you’re working almost exclusively through the internet, you must know the rules of order when it comes to cheating, plagiarism, and academic integrity. If you came up with it and wrote it, it’s yours. If you copied, borrowed, quoted, or even paraphrased the information or idea from somewhere else, it belongs to somebody else. Credit that person, persons, publication, or website accordingly. Of course, your new online school will have its own policies, procedures, and guidelines concerning plagiarism. Familiarize yourself with this information so that you don’t run into any problems by virtue of either ignorance or temptation.
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These 21 learning tips and strategies come from online college students from across America and other countries.