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Online Learner Profiles: Christian B.

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Guide to Online Education > Online Education In-Depth > Meet Real Online Students > Christian B., Master of Business Administration

He was impressed by how much they catered to graduate and Doctorate students, which meant to him that the faculty had to be top notch.

"It didn't seem like the kind of program where they would just be pushing lots of people through in a general way," he explained. "It was quality over quantity."

Christian gave Walden's representatives his contact information, took some material home with him, and within a week he was registered in the university's MBA program.

His instructors were successful businessmen and women in their own right, many with 30 plus years of experience in the private sector; they had spent that time building high-powered careers and now had the leisure to share everything they learned with their students.

(Christian was somewhat surprised to learn that his instructors also taught at traditional colleges throughout the country.)

A big myth about distance learning, he points out, is that your education comes solely from reading and writing, as if it's all impersonal text. "My understanding of the assignments was increased by all the real life situations the professors presented in their lectures... It was a good blend."

Christian was in the two-year MBA program, which meant that he was simultaneously in school full-time and employed full-time. But for him personally, it wasn't an option to drag it out. "If I took more time, I don't think I would have learned as much," he says.

He does admit, however, that he had to develop good time management skills in order to stay on top of each class syllabus. That's because one way in which Christian's distance learning experience differed from traditional learning was that the deadlines seemed stricter for online assignments and postings.

He recalls that as an undergrad, professors were more lenient and accepting of excuses, but under this particular higher education system, "if you don't do the work, you really do get a zero."

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