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"It has topped me out on the advancement scale and begun to open a few doors in staff development and possible online teaching myself."
Meet Scott
Name: Scott Ellison
Age: 36
Marital Status: Married
Children: Three
Current Location: California
Advice to Online Students: "Don't procrastinate. If you put off [your online degree coursework] you'll scramble at the end."
School: Walden University
Target: M.S. in Education, 2003
If distance education had not been available he would likely have enrolled at a traditional university. But the flexibility of pursuing his degree on-line had surprising benefits.
"My daily routine didn't change. It was business as usual," he recalls. "I tried not to affect the family at all."
He went to work, came home, helped with the children, studied capoeira, and did household chores. He only did schoolwork after hours. The youngest of his three sons was still a newborn. "He would wake up in the middle of the night. I was already up. My wife, Jen, got more sleep."
"Watching the videos [lectures] and posting to the discussion boards on time" were his biggest challenges, Scott notes. "I killed myself with the first course working at it everyday." Like many successful on-line students, he later developed some strategies.
"I am the running back who continually tries to look for the opening to make a touchdown," he says. He was always looking for the "most efficient, most expedient" way to get the work expected of him done.
Here is how he did it.
"I checked into the bulletin board every single day. Even if I didn't post, I would read. I kept in touch with the discussions…and with others."
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