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Wednesday, 27. July 2011
In the days before the Internet, getting a distance learning degree was a long and tedious process. I am amazed and humbled by the perseverance of those taking such degrees during those times. There are some of us who take high school and college diplomas for granted, perhaps slacking a bit and not reaching for our full potential and yet, you see those with two or three jobs, or with a family, still trying to find time to enroll and finish a discipline. Distance learning degrees weren’t also taken too seriously in the corporate world as their preferences were degrees from well established universities and colleges. direct mailing list There may have been several reasons for those taking distance learning degrees instead of taking the normal route for college but I would think that for a majority of them, college wasn’t an option as financial circumstances made them go straight to work after high school. Through regular mail, assignments would be mailed to the student and after a certain period, the student would mail their work.