Completing graduate school long distance

Description:

Pursuing an advanced degree long distance has its own inherent difficulties, and the authors offer valuable advice based on their own personal experience to help students through them. They raise important issues to consider when contemplating earning a degree long distance, from the many factors that come into play when selecting an appropriate institution to the essentials of obtaining and utilizing necessary resources and technology. The authors also offer tremendous support for students who have already begun long distance programs. They outline key strategies for time management, selecting graduate committees, developing support groups, and meeting thesis/dissertation and graduation requirements. In addition, they have compiled useful appendixes that include a listserve of graduate schools that offer long distance programs and the Globewide Network Academy Catalog.

subjects: Distance education,  University extension,  Graduate work,  Universities and colleges,  Universita˜t,  Fernstudium,  Graduate Education,  Graduierter,  Universities and colleges, graduate work

Places: United States