Graduate Student Blog December Archive

Using Computers At Oxford Graduate School

By Rodger Bailey, MS at 12/21/09 17:21

During our on-campus residency at Oxford Graduate School, we are expected to have our laptop or netbook computers with us. I assume that during times of on-campus residency, most distance learning graduate programs will ask its students to do the same.

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Adult Learners In Distance Learning Graduate Programs

Adult learners are different from children in school. They think differently and they learn differently.

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Why Is A Distance Learning University Important?

There are lots of reasons that distance learning and online universities are becoming more common. It is a standard concept in business and marketing. As technology and marketplace change, we need to start changing the products and services we offer. The same is happening for the graduate school marketplace.

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Distance Learning Doctoral Coursework

There are different ways of completing coursework at different distance learning graduate school programs. For some schools, all the coursework is online, at other schools all the coursework is in classes in an on-campus residency, and some schools have a mix of the two.

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Is Your Graduate School A Walk-In-The-Park?

Literally, do you have to walk through a park to go from one of your classes or activities to the next? At my school we walk from one building to another through a park. And, the campus is nestled up against a forest.

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Some Distance Learning Doctoral Programs

Distance learning graduate programs are designed so that students live and study in their own home-town and attend school through Internet access and short on-campus residencies. Here are some programs that are designed in this way. I have listed them in order of their longevity, with the most recent of them first.

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