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Monday, November 16, 2015
3 Challenges Online Education Helps Adult Learners Overcome - Darwin Green, US News
Nontraditional students with outside responsibilities can benefit from the flexibility online courses offer. After a long and difficult decision, I decided to return to college after a 12-year gap between my sophomore and junior years. Things had changed since I had been to college, both for me and in education. I now had a pregnant wife and bills to pay – something I never had to consider as a young man in my early 20s. And an undergraduate degree somehow became the new high school diploma. I needed a way to find financial security while maintaining my responsibilities as a father, a husband and as an adult. I decided to apply to an online program. As an adult, I found there are three advantages of online degrees:
http://www.usnews.com/education/online-learning-lessons/2015/11/06/3-challenges-online-education-helps-adult-learners-overcome