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There are many advantages to online education, but like everything it has its disadvantages also. Before enrolling in an online course, make sure that it is right for you and your lifestyle.

Self discipline is required &#8211; Students are responsible for sticking to schedules of their own and work with [...]


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<p>There are many advantages to <a href="http://www.online-education.net/">online education</a>, but like everything it has its <a href="http://gradschool.about.com/od/distanceeducation/f/onlineadv.htm">disadvantages also</a>. Before enrolling in an online course, make sure that it is right for you and your lifestyle.</p>
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<li><strong>Self discipline is required</strong> &#8211; Students are responsible for sticking to schedules of their own and work with time constraints instead of deadlines given by professors. Procrastination isn’t a word or an action that should exist in an online student’s life because it will only make them fall behind.</li>
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<li><strong>Good time management is      necessary</strong> &#8211; Taking a course on campus requires that you attend class at a prearranged time. You are expected to be in class, on time and you are obligates to keep up with your professor’s assignments and schedules. Online learning means that you are responsible for your own time. There is no instructor looking over your shoulder and you are in charge of keeping tabs on your progress. Working at your own pace can very much lead you into completing later than you probably can, and you can start dragging behind.</li>
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<li><strong>Lack of interaction with the      teacher</strong> &#8211; Human interaction in general, with these online courses is pretty scarce. Unless you make time to meet with teachers on campus somewhere, you will never see them face-to-face. There are those who like not having to impress a teacher or prefer to be by themselves. The majority, however, learns from being right in front of another person.</li>
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<li><strong>Lack of interaction with peers</strong> &#8211; <a href="http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/gardiner.htm">Students learn from other students</a>, and being at home by ones’ self can become lonely. It’s impossible to create an atmosphere a welcoming as a class full of students, online. It is also impossible to listen to discussions and ask questions of other students. Depending on the subject that you are teaching, you may not need to interact with other students, but you can learn from others just by being around them.</li>
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<li><strong>Networking resources are      lessened</strong> &#8211; Attending college at a campus can be a great networking approach. You come in contact with so many people and these people can give you the connections needed that you can use later in life. Online programs do not give you the in-person contact you need to associate and impress people with.</li>
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<li><strong>Learning at home isn’t as easy      as it is in the classroom</strong> &#8211; Learning in a classroom gives you the tools to understand and interpret information better. An instructor standing in front of you will present hand motions, different verbal tone, and other body language, that cannot be presented online. Not having the body language put into words on your computer screen leaves you challenged to figure out what everything means. You sit at home in front of your computer away from the interaction and observation of a teacher and are on your own to learn the materials.</li>
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Validation_of_foreign_studies_and_degrees"><strong>Degree validation</strong></a> &#8211; An online education from an accredited degree can be very beneficial to a student’s future employment options. As there are accredited institutions, there are non-accredited ones, and there are many. These non-accredited schools hold a bad reputation because they can’t quite prove that a student earned a degree at a high level of standards.</li>
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&#8220;It&#039;s quite constructive,&#8221; Senate Spending budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., explained from the blueprint that Obama [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WASHINGTON &mdash; Moderate congressional Democrats, a bloc that&#039;s crucial for the fate of President Barack Obama&#039;s renewed wellness health care effort, presented only mild endorsements of his new strategy Tuesday, although warning that it faces a hard legislative path.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#039;s quite constructive,&#8221; Senate Spending budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., explained from the blueprint that Obama released Monday. &#8220;But how this is accomplished just isn&#039;t distinct to me at this moment.&#8221;</p>
<p>The president&#039;s self-described &#8220;opening bid,&#8221; in anticipation of his bipartisan health care summit Thursday, combines elements of separate bills that the Senate and also the Home of Representatives passed final year with only a single Republican vote</p>
<p>The estimated 0 billion, 10-year package would need most persons to obtain coverage, would supply insurance coverage subsidies for lower-income families and would impose new taxes on increased incomes and much more high priced insurance policy policies.</p>
<p>Because of Obama&#039;s pending summit, practically no Democrats wanted to criticize the president&#039;s exertion publicly, but it was crystal clear that the moment the summit&#039;s throughout, the White Home faces political and substantive issues in acquiring a comprehensive package deal approved.</p>
<p>Numerous centrist Democrats confront re-election in November in conservative states and districts, and Republicans are eagerly wanting to use Democrats&#039; well being health care positions against them.</p>
<p>&#8220;Everybody is looking at the polls that display within the a single hand, folks want one thing completed,&#8221; explained Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb. It&#039;s tricky to get constituents to agree on specifics, nevertheless, and &#8220;that creates health treatment a tough sell,&#8221; he stated.</p>
<p>The most typical responses from moderates Tuesday about Obama&#039;s blueprint had been related to that of Rep. Jason Altmire, D-Pa., who voted in opposition to the Democratic program in November. &#8220;It&#039;s far better than the Property bill,&#8221; claimed Altmire, who&#039;s a member in the conservative, 54-member House Democratic Blue Dog Coalition, &#8220;but we still will need to determine more cost containment.&#8221;</p>
<p>Home Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., also was guarded.</p>
<p>&#8220;I am not heading to create comments on distinct proposals &mdash; and I just saw this on Monday &mdash; until I have an chance to digest it.&#8221; Thirty-nine House hold Democrats voted alongside the party&#039;s wellbeing health care approach on final passage in November.</p>
<p>Republicans pounced for the Democrats&#039; new program. The National Republican Believe in PAC, an independent Republican group, plans to start 3 days of radio ads Wednesday in Washington urging the Blue Dogs to distance themselves from Property Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., or reap the penalties from voters in November.</p>
<p>Residence Republicans huddled Tuesday, and afterward they were being adamant that the president&#039;s strategy is definitely an pricey, big-government mess.</p>
<p>&#8220;House Republicans will continue to oppose any exertion to utilize this so-called &#039;summit&#039; being a media preamble to forcing as a result of ObamaCare 2.,&#8221; explained Property Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence of Indiana.</p>
<p>Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky was equally resolute. &#8220;The American people believed the debate on this approach to reform was over,&#8221; he mentioned around the Senate floor. &#8220;Yet here we are, when once again, becoming told through the White House that we have to think about similar wellbeing health care bills that brought on such a backlash across the country in December.&#8221;</p>
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