RN-BA Degree Completion Program
Nursing Courses Online
Is Online Learning For You?
From Teaching and Learning at a Distance: Foundations of Distance Education
By Simonson, Smaldino, Albright and Zvacek
The following are characteristics of successful online students. This
is not to say that students without these characteristics cannot achieve
in online courses, only that they would likely have to work harder for
success. Do you see these characteristics in yourself?
Would you:
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Be comfortable with learning and interacting
with others through technology?
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Be willing to interact effectively with
peers and engage in group processes?
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Have the ability to communicate
effectively through writing?
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Have the presence of mind to think ideas
through before responding?
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Be self-motivated and self-disciplined, and
able to structure and manage time effectively?
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Be goal-oriented?
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Have the ability to conduct self-study
as necessary and construct knowledge to fill in informational gaps
that may occur in an online
lesson?
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Have the ability to commit the amount of time the course
requires?
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Be open-minded about sharing life, work and educational
experiences as part of the learning process?
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Be willing to take risks
and be creative?
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Be willing to “speak up” if problems
arise?
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Have
the ability to focus and ignore distractions in one’s own
learning environment?
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Have a commitment to the
belief that high quality learning can take place in the absence of
a traditional classroom?
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Be sufficiently flexible to accept teaching
and learning in a different context and have the ability to adapt to
learning
successfully in an online environment?
