terryann Posted September 8, 2009 Report Posted September 8, 2009 Am taking physics, biochem, engish this year...possibly genetics. Do not need the courses to graduate but need them for ubc. Was planning on taking them at u of t, but I am thinking I may travel and help with my sick grandparents.....and do the courses by distance ed.....athabasca... Question...I have never done distance ed, is it alot harder etc..than your regular course where you have lectures? Were the marks you received at athabasca similiar to the ones you received at your main university.. Pros / cons...and help appreciated..
AndreaM Posted September 8, 2009 Report Posted September 8, 2009 Am taking physics, biochem, engish this year...possibly genetics. Do not need the courses to graduate but need them for ubc. Was planning on taking them at u of t, but I am thinking I may travel and help with my sick grandparents.....and do the courses by distance ed.....athabasca...Question...I have never done distance ed, is it alot harder etc..than your regular course where you have lectures? Were the marks you received at athabasca similiar to the ones you received at your main university.. Pros / cons...and help appreciated.. If you're a BC resident (I'm guessing you are since you mentioned UBC) I would suggest taking your courses through TRU. I've done quite a bit of correspondence work and it really depends on what kind of student you are as to how difficult it is. I'm a pretty independent learner, I don't tend to procrastinate and I learn well from the text, so I do well with distance learning. I have found that the material isn't very different difficulty-wise from in person learning and it mostly depends on how much you are willing to put into it. Overall, I have found my distance gpa actually higher than my in person gpa. I would suggest taking the first course on it's own and seeing how you do and then taking more courses from there.
rmorelan Posted September 8, 2009 Report Posted September 8, 2009 Am taking physics, biochem, engish this year...possibly genetics. Do not need the courses to graduate but need them for ubc. Was planning on taking them at u of t, but I am thinking I may travel and help with my sick grandparents.....and do the courses by distance ed.....athabasca...Question...I have never done distance ed, is it alot harder etc..than your regular course where you have lectures? Were the marks you received at athabasca similiar to the ones you received at your main university.. Pros / cons...and help appreciated.. I took a lot of courses via DE at Waterloo (over 40) - although this might not be particularly relevant to you. The DE courses there are a little different than in class courses, but the material is the same. Generally I find parts of them are a lot easier - the assignments or mid terms are for one as in equivalent lecture courses there are often either no assignments, and midterms are trickier for obvious reasons. However the finals are often worth a lot more, which means you can go into a say 70% final exam without really being stressed to learn that professors testing style prior. You also of course have to force yourself not to fall behind. Still they really worked for me, I did equally well in both in class and DE courses.
islander Posted September 10, 2009 Report Posted September 10, 2009 I agree with Andrea; start with one DE course and see how it works for you. I'm taking courses at AU and they are great. They are a bit more work than a typical in-person course, but the flexibility is wonderful.
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