One of the outcomes of a good education is that you learn more than just the subjects you are studying. For some students this can be based round the social skills and graces that they learn from the staff, students and institution they interact with; for others it can be the ability to learn, or to research, or to write well.
Online courses mean that you interact in different ways with your fellow students, staff and the institution you are studying through. But these ways can also teach you other skills. I have found that since I started using the internet for much of my daily communications, my writing skills have broadened, and my day to day writing sounds much like the way I speak - a great advantage when I want to communicate directly by words on paper.
A friend of mine tells me that they have become totally familiar and without fear in the use of day to day technology, whereas they had real problems before they started to study. What can you learn?
# posted by Mary @ 2:59 PM
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