Hello All,<\/p>\n
I’m a huge fan of online education. Not only does it help working adults with difficult schedules to get the degree they want\/need, it enables people with physical disabilities to have the same educational opportunities as everyone else. As someone who has both a tight work schedule and physical limitations on his level of activity, distance learning has been key in helping me to advance in my career.<\/p>\n
Just as a bit of background, I earned my bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Kansas State University in 2003…although I nearly didn’t. Early in 2002, a back injury left me with very limited mobility, unable to attend courses, or even leave the house for most of the spring semester. As I went through physical therapy during the following year, I was able to complete my coursework and exams on a flexible basis with the help a very considerate faculty.<\/p>\n
A few years passed, and while I’d mostly healed, I remained limited with how many hours I could be mobile on a given day. I wanted to work towards a masters degree, but my back wasn’t stable enough to allow me to sit through both my engineering job during the day and then graduate classes at night.<\/p>\n
Then in 2006, I started to hear about graduate degrees that were offered online. I enrolled as a student, and started taking one course at a time. Throughout the next four years I learned far more than I expected. I was easily able to take my grad research and apply it in my day job.<\/p>\n
Now, most of the tools used in our department are based on my coursework! As of December 2010, I graduated with an [url=\/online-schools\/dakota-state-university-college-of-business-information-systems-graduate\/master-of-science-in-information-systems[\/url] from Dakota State University Online, and I’d still like to go further. I’m researching two new masters programs and an\u00a0online doctorate degree<\/a>\u00a0to apply for in the spring, and I’m looking forward to see what I can do next.<\/p>\n Distributing coursework online now opens up availability for education that wasn’t easily available even 10 years ago. Being able to self-motivate and schedule your time for study is key, but just like with any on-campus program, if you put in the time, the rewards are worth the effort.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello All, I’m a huge fan of online education. Not only does it help working adults with difficult schedules to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[168,167,127],"yst_prominent_words":[188,170,12,192,198,176,197,191,194,196,130,171,190,195,199,193,169,17,21,189],"class_list":{"0":"post-633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-9-online-phd-a-doctorate-programs","7":"tag-dakota-state-university","8":"tag-information-systems","9":"tag-online-education"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":635,"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions\/635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}