Is distance ed in the summer harder than during the school year?

4/16/2006 8:37:17 PM

put like this

instead of having a week to do most shit online during a semester, you got one night probably

[Edited on April 17, 2006 at 12:02 AM. Reason : .]

4/17/2006 12:01:25 AM

Depends on the course and the length of time its offered. I took HI207 DE over SSII and it really wasn't too bad ... only grades were the tests. However, you take something like CalcIII distance education ... might require a bit more work.

4/17/2006 5:35:42 AM

took his 205 for distance ed in the summer. i got a B- , a pretty good grade for doing shit, esp in a history class. def. go for it

4/27/2006 10:52:46 AM

I'd advocate taking as many summer courses as possible.

For example: My ENG 331 distance education course during last Summer Session II had 5 things due at the end of each week (5-week course). The same teacher has 13 things due during the full semester. You do the math.

Summer courses have always proven to be much easier and less complex for me...I highly recommend DE courses over the summer. Sure, you may do some work on a course each night, but in 5 weeks it's DONE. Do it.

4/27/2006 11:31:10 AM

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"For example: My ENG 331 distance education course during last Summer Session II had 5 things due at the end of each week (5-week course). The same teacher has 13 things due during the full semester. You do the math."

that's 1 assignment shy of double the coursework, in less than half the time.

It wasn't supposed to be 5 assignments due at the end of the session, was it?
I, too, think folks should take as many summer courses as possible (I'm spending this summer getting crap like ENG 101 and TT 252 and ACC 210 out of the way, simply because I just don't want to spend a whole semester looking at that stuff), but saying there's double the workload for half the time doesn't really sound like "advocating"

4/27/2006 11:50:03 AM

^how is summer double the course work?

he said he had 5 assignments due during the summer (5 weeks)

the same class had 13 due during a regular semester. (15 weeks)

so that is half the assignments in a third of the time

4/27/2006 12:28:31 PM

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"5 things due at the end of each week (5-week course)"

reading comprehension is the best!

4/27/2006 12:38:28 PM

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"he said he had 5 assignments due during the summer (5 weeks)"

No. He said 5 assignments due each week.
5*5 = 25
2*13 = 26

4/27/2006 1:09:51 PM

yes but reading comprehension implies that he is saying the summer course was easier, so no matter how poorly he worded the sentence, he clearly meant that there were 5 assignments due, ONE at the end of EACH of the 5 weeks...

4/27/2006 2:16:17 PM